All India Soccer Federation’s (AIFF) Principal authorized advisor Nilanjan Bhattacharjee on Saturday made severe “corruption allegations” in opposition to president Kalyan Chaubey, who termed them baseless and stated he would take authorized motion.
In a letter written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bhattacharjee stated Chaubey labored out “corruption avenues” via non clear tender course of and preferential allotment of tender.
Bhattacharjee additionally alleged that Chaubey made makes an attempt to “siphon off cash from the federation’s exchequer” and used AIFF fund for private bills.
“…via coercion and at his personal subservient curiosity, allotted quite a few tenders similar to broadcasting of I-League (final season), IWL, Santosh Trophy in favour of 1 (firm; identify withheld) which occurs to be near the incumbent president,” Bhattacharjee wrote within the letter, which is in possession of PTI.
“Additional tenders operating into crores have been allotted to the identical service supplier for broadcasting of futsal and different such tournaments,” he wrote within the letter, a replica of which was additionally marked to Dwelling Minister Amit Shah and Sports activities Minister Anurag Thakur.
He stated even the tender for the continued Santosh Trophy was additionally given to the identical entity.
Bhattacharjee claimed that when he urged safeguards in subsequent tenders, Chaubey tried to “malign” his picture {and professional} integrity.
“Crores of cash have been spent by the present president for his private journeys, lodge stays. For his quite a few Bangalore journey alone, a conservative estimation of greater than Rs 40 lakhs has been spent to fund his enterprise class journey, native conveyance and lodge stays.”
When contacted by PTI, Chaubey stated he has gone via the allegations and he’ll take authorized motion.
“All these (allegations) are baseless. I’ll reply legally,” Chaubey stated.
Bhattacharjee stated he was appointed after Chaubey took cost as AIFF head in September 2022 and his tenure was prolonged lately.
“My first tenure led to October final 12 months. It obtained prolonged by one other 12 months after that. However I might not care if I’m terminated from my job,” he informed PTI.
Bhattacharjee had earlier alleged that the AIFF didn’t pay him his retainership sum for a few months final 12 months however later obtained it.
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