{{A court in India has charged the chief of Delhi’s 2010 Commonwealth Games, Suresh Kalmadi, with corruption.}}<\/p>\n
Mr Kalmadi and nine others have been charged with cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. He denies the charges and has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n
The case will be heard at a fast-track court in Delhi.<\/p>\n
Estimated to be worth $16.5m (\u00a310m) in funds lost to the exchequer, the case is one of several corruption scandals to have rocked India’s government.<\/p>\n
The Games’ secretary general Lalit Bhanot, director general VK Verma and seven others have also been charged for illegally awarding the contract to the company in Switzerland – they deny the allegations.<\/p>\n
India’s federal investigation agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation, arrested Mr Kalmadi in April 2011 “for conspiracy to cause favour to a company in Switzerland while procuring timers and scoring equipment for the Games”.<\/p>\n
He was sacked as chairman of the Commonwealth Games Committee in January 2011.<\/p>\n
Mr Kalmadi, a sitting member of parliament for the governing Congress party, has also been charged with corruption in a case related to contracts at a 2009 event in London which marked the start of a baton race across Commonwealth countries.<\/p>\n
He denies those charges too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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