US firm paid USD 25K bribe to Goa PWD officials, Sudin orders inquiry

This time when the department was headed by PWD minister Sudin Dhawalikar.

His officials are accused of taking a bribe of 25,000 US dollars to clear a water supply project.

Just like Louis Berger case, the news of this bribe of around 16 lakh rupees broke out from Washington.

A Boston-based construction engineering firm CDM Smith admitted before the US Justice Department that they paid 25,000 US Dollars to the Goa government officials to get a water project contract.

The news did not specify what water project it was and also which department the officials belonged to.

But TCP Minister Vijai Sardesai confirmed that it was a PWD and its minister Sudin Dhawalikar has already ordered an inquiry into it.

Because it happened during his last tenure between 2011 to 2015.

The actual news that broke out is not of Goa, but a national level scandal of CDM India paying a huge bribe of 1.18 million US dollars to the officials of National Highway Authority to bag different contracts.

It comes to 761 crore rupees. Union minister Nitin Gadkari has already ordered departmental inquiry into this scandal.

And here in Goa, Dhawalikar has ordered a similar inquiry.