Botsa appears before Lok Ayukta in Volkswagen probe

Lok Ayukta takes Andhra Jyothi report

The Minister for Marketing, Botsa Satyanarayana has offered to resign from his post if it came in the way of Lok Ayukta's probe into the Rs. 11.67 crore scandal when German auto major Volkswagen explored possibilities of setting up of a unit at Visakhapatnam. At that point of time, he was the Minister for Industries.

He appeared before Lok Ayukta R. Ramanujam in response to summons issued. According to the Minister's counsel O. Kalishnath Reddy, the Lok Ayukta had initiated suo moto proceedings to examine the Minister as his version of the issues relating to the Volkswagen were at variance with those of the Managing Director of the AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation.

He deposed before the Lok Ayukta that the allegations of corruption leveled against him in the Volkswagen deal were not true. The Lok Ayukta found fault with a report published in Andhra Jyothi, a telugu daily that the institution had gathered material to prove the Minister' involvement in the scandal.

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