CBI court summons Botsa in VW case

Hyderabad: Special judge C Praveen Kumar of the

CBI Court

in Hyderabad on Friday issued summons to Andhra Pradesh minister

Botsa Satyanarayana

asking him to appear before the court on September 12 to depose as witness in the Volkswagen case filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

In the name of setting up Volkswagen factory at Visakhapatnam, the company’s officer Helmuth Schuster, with the help of some other accused, duped the state of Andhra Pradesh to an extent of Rs 11.67 crore in 2005. The company later threw out Schuster from its service and had even offered to compensate the state for the loss done by their officer.

The state had entrusted the matter to CBI which brought out the names of Schuster’s Indian accomplices and filed chargesheet against them. The CBI however could not bring Schuster from Germany. Ashok Jain, BK Chaturvedi, Jagadish Alagraja, Gayatri Chandravadan (who died later) were made as accused. Botsa, who was AP industries minister then, was arrayed as witness in the case by CBI. The case has now reached the trial stage.