Whistleblower blew lid off Rs 371 crore Skill Development Corporation scam
1 year, 3 months ago

Whistleblower blew lid off Rs 371 crore Skill Development Corporation scam

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The ₹371 crore AP Skill Development Corporation scam came to light in 2018 when a whistle-blower reported the matter to the Anti-Corruption Bureau unit in the state. The allegations against Naidu and others include manipulating contracts, misappropriating public money, and orchestrating a fraudulent scheme under the umbrella of a skill development corporation. Sleuths unravelled one of the central issues in the case being a note from the skill development organisation, indicating the estimated cost in a Detailed Project Report presented to the state cabinet, bypassing the established government procedures. Enforcement Directorate has raided and arrested top individuals involved in this massive scam, including former MD of Siemens Software India Soumyadri Shekhar Bose, Vikas Vinayak Khanwilkar of Designtech Systems, and former financial adviser Mukul Chandra Aggarwal.

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ED Evidence: Kurasala Kannababu's Evidence Points to Naidu's Involvement in Skill Development Scam
1 month, 3 weeks ago

ED Evidence: Kurasala Kannababu's Evidence Points to Naidu's Involvement in Skill Development Scam

Deccan Chronicle  

Former minister Kurasala Kannababu claims that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has strengthened the case against Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in the Skill Development Scam. He presented evidence to the High Court, demonstrating his clear involvement in the scandal. Despite solid evidence against Naidu, his supporters continue to claim his innocence, making the ED's counter a significant challenge to such …

Skill Development scam: SC delivers split verdict on Chandrababu Naidu’s plea
11 months, 1 week ago

Skill Development scam: SC delivers split verdict on Chandrababu Naidu’s plea

Live Mint  

The Supreme Court delivered a split verdict on Tuesday in connection with a plea filed by former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. The court rejected Naidu's plea to quash FIR in the Skill Development Corporation scam, but delivered a split verdict on Section 17A PC Act, Bar and Bench reported. The plea filed by Chandrababu Naidu had challenged …

Skill Development Scam Case: Come Tomorrow, SC Tells Naidu
1 year, 2 months ago

Skill Development Scam Case: Come Tomorrow, SC Tells Naidu

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused urgent mentioning of the petition filed by the Telugu Desam Party president Chandrababu Naidu seeking to quash the FIR filed by the Andhra Pradesh CID in connection with the skill development scam case and also challenging his remand in the case. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud refused out-of-turn menrioning for Naidu's petition and …

ED summons 63 persons to unravel skill development scam
1 year, 3 months ago

ED summons 63 persons to unravel skill development scam

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Enforcement Directorate issued summons to 63 persons and entities under section 50 of Prevention of Money Laundering Act to unravel the modus operandi of diverting government funds in the AP Skill Development Corporation’s Siemens Project scam. According to the ED’s recent provisional attachment order, based on a complaint lodged by chairman of the AP State Skill Development Corporation, an …

Chandrababu Naidu moves SC in Andhra Pradesh skill development scam case
1 year, 3 months ago

Chandrababu Naidu moves SC in Andhra Pradesh skill development scam case

The Hindu  

Telugu Desam Party national president and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on September 23 appealed the Supreme Court against an Andhra Pradesh High Court order refusing to quash FIRs against him in the multi-crore skill development scam case. The special leave petition, filed through Mr. Naidu’s lawyer, advocate Guntur Pramod Kumar, said the FIRs were “an orchestrated campaign of …

Naidu prime accused in APSSDC scam, AP students cheated: Buggana
1 year, 3 months ago

Naidu prime accused in APSSDC scam, AP students cheated: Buggana

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Finance minister Buggana Rajendranath has rejected the Telugu Desam’s contentions and stressed that Nara Chandrababu Naidu masterminded the multi-crore APSSDC scam. “Chandrababu Naidu has been arrested with proper evidence,” the minister said during a short discussion on the Skill Development scam in the state Assembly on Friday. Giving a detailed power-point presentation on the APSSDC scam in the Assembly …

Verdict in AP skill scam case on September 21
1 year, 3 months ago

Verdict in AP skill scam case on September 21

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has concluded its hearings on a petition filed by TD chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu, seeking to quash the FIR registered against him by the AP-CID in the AP skill development scam. They argued that there was no need for the CID to get permission from the Governor to register an FIR on Naidu in …

Naidu overruled officials' recommendations: AP CID
1 year, 3 months ago

Naidu overruled officials' recommendations: AP CID

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: State CID additional DG, N Sanjay, has said former chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu is the prime accused in the AP Skill Development scam. The ADG took a jibe at TD general secretary Nara Lokesh for attempting to “spin a deliberate lie” in relation to the skill development scam. Consequently, his evaluation report heavily relied on the content of …

AP skill development scam: Naidu ignored babus' objections
1 year, 3 months ago

AP skill development scam: Naidu ignored babus' objections

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The skill development scam in Andhra Pradesh, in which former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was arrested, is a classic case of corruption of the Telugu Desam government awarding Rs 370 crore project to a private company on nomination basis without inviting tenders and releasing 90 per cent of the project cost without even evaluating the actual cost of …

Huge amount diverted, Chandrababu Naidu actively involved: Andhra top cop
1 year, 3 months ago

Huge amount diverted, Chandrababu Naidu actively involved: Andhra top cop

India Today  

Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, who was arrested in a Rs 300 crore financial fraud case, was actively involved in diverting huge amounts of money from the government to private entities, Chief of Andhra Police's Crime Investigation Department, N Sanjay, said on Wednesday. Addressing the media, the CID chief pointed out the alleged involvement of the former Chief …

DC Edit | Naidu's arrest: All corrupt leaders must be punished
1 year, 3 months ago

DC Edit | Naidu's arrest: All corrupt leaders must be punished

Deccan Chronicle  

There is an unmistakable trace of schadenfreude in the public reaction to the arrest of any prominent political leader, especially one who has had a long stint in power, self-righteous overtones to his career’s narrative and never faced the brunt of the laws he himself must have helped carve. Such an arrest, as in the recent case of former Andhra …

Andhra Pradesh: More scams of Naidu and TD leaders to be exposed, says Ambati
1 year, 3 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: More scams of Naidu and TD leaders to be exposed, says Ambati

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Calling Telugu Desam chief Chandrababu Naidu a manipulator, water resources minister Ambati Rambabu said on Monday that the former chief minister landed in jail because of strong evidence against him. Rather, all including Naidu cited technical reasons to justify the syphoning off of public money, Rambabu told the media here. He said the TD, its friendly media, leaders of …

Naidu Principal Conspirator in Skill Development Scam: Remand Report
1 year, 3 months ago

Naidu Principal Conspirator in Skill Development Scam: Remand Report

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The AP CID has named Telugu Desam chief N. Chandrababu Naidu the principal conspirator in the Rs 371-crore AP Skill Development scam, with Naidu and the TD named end beneficiaries of misappropriated money, according to the remand report. It detailed how vendors Design Tech Systems Private Limited and Siemens Industry Software India Private Limited approached Naidu through TD leader …

Andhra Pradesh: Chandrababu Naidu sent to 14-day judicial custody in alleged skill development scam
1 year, 3 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Chandrababu Naidu sent to 14-day judicial custody in alleged skill development scam

India TV News  

A Vijayawada anti-corruption bureau court sent TDP Chief and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu to 14-day judicial custody in connection with an alleged skill development scam. Seeking his judicial custody, the remand report said though the officials arranged a chopper to take him to Vijayawada from Nandyal where he was arrested, the Leader of the Opposition refused. The …

Naidu arrested in Rs 3,300 cr Skill Development Corpn scam case in morning drama
1 year, 3 months ago

Naidu arrested in Rs 3,300 cr Skill Development Corpn scam case in morning drama

Deccan Chronicle  

Kurnool/Vijayawada: Telugu Desam chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu was arrested by the CID from Nandyal at 6 am on Saturday and shifted to Vijayawada, in connection with the Rs 3,300-crore AP Skill Development Corporation scam case, amid public hullabaloo and mounting tension. Meanwhile, the Telugu Desam legal team and Supreme Court senior advocate Siddartha Luthra moved a House Motion with the …

TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu arrested in A.P. Skill Development corruption case
1 year, 3 months ago

TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu arrested in A.P. Skill Development corruption case

The Hindu  

Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department on September 9 said that former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was the principal conspirator and “accused no 1” in the ₹371 crore skill development scam. The agency further said that the government order was issued under Mr. Naidu’s instructions, intending to cause wrongful loss to the public exchequer and gain to private individuals. In …

Rs 371 crore from Siemens scam rerouted to Naidu’s accounts, says Jagan
1 year, 9 months ago

Rs 371 crore from Siemens scam rerouted to Naidu’s accounts, says Jagan

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: 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 …

YSRC questions Lokesh on skill development scam
1 year, 9 months ago

YSRC questions Lokesh on skill development scam

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: AP State Planning Board vice chairman and YSRC MLA Malladi Vishnu asked Telugu Desam general secretary Nara Lokesh to stop his Yuvagalam padayatra and answer youth about the scam in AP Skill Development Corporation during the TDP rule in which ₹370 crore of public money had been swindled. The Planning Board vice chairman alleged that projects to train youth …

TD demands details of fund diversion in Siemens scam
1 year, 9 months ago

TD demands details of fund diversion in Siemens scam

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and Telugu Desam MLA, Payyavula Kesav, on Wednesday said the Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy government is levelling baseless charges against the previous TD government, in relation to the Skill Development Project. CM Jagan, who destroyed the Skill Development project and hurt the future of so many youths thereof, is now making baseless charges …

Major breakthrough in skill development scam
1 year, 9 months ago

Major breakthrough in skill development scam

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The Criminal Investigation Department is said to have found fresh evidence linking the skill development scam to former Chief Minister and Telugu Desam supremo N Chandrababu Naidu even as probe agency arrested former Siemens employee G V S Bhaskar in Noida on Wednesday. The arrest may put Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS official U Aparna in tight spot as she …

Not associated with TD’s skill dev. project: Siemens
1 year, 9 months ago

Not associated with TD’s skill dev. project: Siemens

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: In a major embarrassment to the principal opposition Telugu Desam, multinational industrial giant Siemens informed the state government that it was never associated with the controversial skill development project launched with great fanfare by then chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh who was the IT minister in the previous regime. According to official sources, Arja …

Gurugram cops book directors of real estate firm for embezzlement
1 year, 10 months ago

Gurugram cops book directors of real estate firm for embezzlement

Hindustan Times  

Gurugram: More than a decade after a city-based real estate firm received around ₹70 lakh from the Union ministry of rural development for the skill development of people living below the poverty line in Bihar, Odisha and Jharkhand, its three directors were booked for alleged embezzlement, Gurugram police said on Wednesday. Gurugram cops book directors of real estate firm for …

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