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NEW DELHI - India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has asked the country's Defence Ministry to blacklist seven defense companies from doing business in India.
Sources in the Defence Ministry said the CBI made the request in a letter sent to the ministry June 4. The CBI is alleging that four foreign companies and three Indian companies were involved in paying bribes to the director general of India's Ordnance Factories Board to get orders fixed, or to influence the finalization of contracts in favor of the companies in question.
The Defence Ministry's spokesman was unavailable for comment.
The names of the seven companies were not disclosed by the sources. Sudipta Ghosh, the former director general of the Ordnance Factories Board, was arrested May 20 on bribery charges.
