EXCLUSIVE: Petrogate Corporates stole secret documents

New Delhi: The Corporate Espionage scandal has shocked the nation, but now for the first time, the details of the case are emerging following the detailed charge sheet filed by Delhi Police in the scandal.

The chargesheet copy of the Delhi police, accessed by NewsMobile, shows that from the 80 sets of the photocopied documents, recovered from Santanu Saikia from Indian Petro, around 23 copies were marked secret/confidential and most of the documents were not in the public domain as per the reports sent to the Delhi police from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG).

Delhi police also recovered 7 set of photocopied documents from Prayas Jain, an energy consultant, of which 6 documents were marked secret/ confidential and all the documents were not in public domain. 

Meanwhile, from the 50 sets of the photocopies documents recovered from Shailesh Saxena of RIL one page was marked secret/ confidential and all the documents were not in the public domain.

From the 9 sets of the photocopied documents recovered from the possession of KK Nayak of Cairns India, 2 documents were marked secret/ confidential and most the documents were not in the public domain claimed the chargesheet.

In case of Vinay Kumar of ESSAR and Rishi Anand of Reliance ADAG, in which police recovered 4 sets of the photocopied documents each, MoPNG informed police that none of the documents were in the public domain.

Meanwhile, in case of Subhash Chandra of Jubiliant Energy, police recovered 6 sets of the documents of which most of the documents were not in the public domain.. 

Whereas, the chargesheet also showed that an amount to the tune of Rs. 2.5 lakhs per month was being paid to the two accused, Lalta Prasad and Rakesh Kumar.

Shailesh Saxena from Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Vinay Kumar from Essar, KK Naik from Cairns India, Subhash Chandra from Jubilant Energy, and Rishi Anand from Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (Reliance ADAG), energy consultant Prayas Jain, and Shantanu Saikia used to pay the amount to them, 

In the chargesheet, police also claimed that analysis of bank statements of Lalta Prasad and Rakesh Kumar revealed that there were significant transactions by cash and cheques despite the fact that they were unemployed.