Yet another controversy broke out over Commonwealth Games related projects with the Indian high commission in London writing to the Indian government about a contract given to an event management firm in London.
This has been done in the wake of the British authorities referring to the high commission a matter regarding AM Films, a London-based company, to which a huge some of money was transferred through the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Media reports have raised questions over the capacity of the firm to deliver a wide variety of projects reportedly entrusted to it by the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee.
High commission sources said the information provided by the UK authorities had been forwarded to the sports ministry for follow up action.
"The UK authorities had referred some matter regarding AM Films to us. We passed on the information to the Indian government. The matter is now with the Indian government", a source in the Indian high commission said.
There were reports that the Enforcement Directorate has been asked to go into the issue but there was no official confirmation.
There was no confirmation from the sports ministry on the development with sports secretary Sindhushree Khullar saying that she had no comments to make.
The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee officials also declined to make a comment, saying they needed to know all the facts before giving a statement.
The OC secretary general Lalit Bhanot said he was not in a position to make a comment.
"I cannot make a statement without knowing all the facts. I will have to check the papers. I know we had conducted an event in London but I can't say anything without looking into the files. The OC deals with so many people, I can't remember everything", he said.
"I will certainly give an answer but first let me go through the files", he said.
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