Toronto: An Indian-origin Canadian citizen has been convicted by a court in Ottawa of conspiring to bribe Air India officials and an Indian minister to the tune of USD 450,000 in a failed bid to secure a lucrative contract for an airline security system.
Nazir Karigar, 65, was charged with one count of corruption after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested him in May 2010.
He was accused of being involved in a scheme to provide bribes worth thousands of dollars to officials with Air India from 2005 to 2007.
Canadian media had reported last year that investigators had alleged that in early 2007, Karigar had met the then Union Minister for Civil Aviation Praful Patel and had allegedly given USD 250,000 to one of his "political allies" to get the contract.
16/08/13 PTI/Business Standard
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Nazir Karigar, 65, was charged with one count of corruption after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested him in May 2010.
He was accused of being involved in a scheme to provide bribes worth thousands of dollars to officials with Air India from 2005 to 2007.
Canadian media had reported last year that investigators had alleged that in early 2007, Karigar had met the then Union Minister for Civil Aviation Praful Patel and had allegedly given USD 250,000 to one of his "political allies" to get the contract.
16/08/13 PTI/Business Standard
