NEW YORK: The United States attorney’s office here has begun an investigation into allegations of mysterious powerbroker Chandra Swami’s role in the St. Kitts accounts affair.
Subpoenas for information regarding allegations of creating false documents by Chandra Swami have been issued by the U.S. attorney. They were issued to the New York based newspaper India Abroad on the basis of a “Jeter of request of the Government of India.”
They asked for news articles, documents, writings, notes and records pertaining to “false documents created by Nemi Chand Gandhi (Chandra Swami) and others.”
The subpoenas referred to articles published in the newspaper in August and September, 1989, according to Ms Susan Brune, the assistant U.S attorney in charge of the investigation.
Ms Brune confirmed that the Nemi Chand Gandhi, named in the subpoenas, was the Indian guru, who is known more generally as Chandra Swami.
Chandra Swami and five others, including two officials in the government of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, were formally arraigned last May in a criminal case filed by the Central Bureau of Intelligence (CBI); The CBI charged them with being part of an international conspiracy to smear the then opposition leader, Mr V.P.Singh.
Charges were ‘circulated to many newspapers in 1989 that Mr Singh’s son, Ajeya, had held an illegal $21 million trust account on the Caribbean island of St. Kits, with his father named as beneficiary.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 8, 1991
