The report in Canada's leading daily, Globe and Mail, says an Indian-born Canadian citizen Nazir Karigar has been implicated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on charges that he had paid Patel a massive bribe, and had conspired with former Mumbai police commissioner Hasan Ghafoor to rig a contract worth $100 million of a facial-recognition system for Air India. It says that Karigar met Patel along with Laxman Dhobole a NCP politician from Pune.
According to the story, "the charge relates to Mr Karigar's work on behalf of CryptoMetrics, a high-tech security company that was pursuing a $100-million contract with Air India for a facial-recognition security system. The privately owned company, which had offices in the New York area, Ottawa and Mumbai until it became the focus of two criminal investigations, declared bankruptcy shortly after Mr Karigar was charged.
"Authorities allege that as head of the company's Indian operations, Mr. Karigar spoke openly to others about channeling a bribe to Mr Patel through a political ally in order to influence approval of the contract. They also contend that he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to two Air India officials and conspired with Mr Gafoor, a childhood friend of Mr Karigar's who was then director of security for Air India, in an unsuccessful bid to ensure CryptoMetrics was awarded the lucrative deal."
Dismissing the charge, Patel urged the PM to convey to the Canadian authorities that the deal was "scrapped at the inception "and that the matter of the tender remains closed". "I earnestly request you that the factual position can be conveyed to authorities in Canada in order to avoid any embarrassment to the government of India and to me personally," Patel
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