Rs 371 crore from Siemens scam rerouted to Naidu’s accounts, says Jagan
Deccan ChronicleVIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said that N. Chandrababu Naidu is the main accused in the skill development Siemens scam in which Rs 371 crore of public money was consumed by him and his men. The Chief Minister elaborated on how Naidu skillfully orchestrated the scam by getting an unauthorised private note of estimates approved in a Cabinet meeting leading to the issue of a GO and then signing a totally different MoU with the unauthorized persons for looting Rs 371 crore. He further explained that while the Cabinet approved the private note and the related GO talked of 90% of the proposed total project cost of Rs 3,356 crore for the development of skills among youth coming from Siemens in the form of grant-in-aid, there was no mention of the grant-in-aid in the MoU. “The grant-in-aid never came from Siemens but the TDP government hurriedly paid 10% of the project cost equaling Rs 371 crore in five tranches in three months.