KAPL MD Caught Red-Handed Accepting ₹5 Lakh Bribe, CBI Says
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested the Managing Director of Bengaluru-based Karnataka Antibiotics and Pharmaceuticals Limited (KAPL), Anurag Danayak, on July 16 for allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹5 lakh from a Bhopal-based firm. KAPL is a public sector undertaking.
The CBI received information on July 15 about a possible bribe payment. According to a CBI spokesperson, Danayak was caught red-handed in Noida while accepting the bribe from a company that is a service agent of KAPL.
The accused Managing Director had demanded approximately ₹15 lakh from the Bhopal-based firm, which is an authorised service agent of KAPL and supplies medicines to government institutions in Madhya Pradesh. The bribe was for approving the Service Agent Agreement of the firm and an application to assign additional institutions to it, which were pending renewal for the current financial year. It also served as a cut on the commission received by the firm from medicine sales in the current year.
The CBI alleged that Danayak was caught while accepting ₹5 lakh as part payment of the demanded bribe. The agency conducted searches at his residential and office premises in Bengaluru, Noida, and Jabalpur.
From Danayak's Noida residence and office chamber in Bengaluru, the CBI seized approximately ₹75 lakh in cash, foreign currency worth ₹4 lakh, 697 grams of gold jewellery and coins worth around ₹86 lakh, and a property document for a residential flat owned by the accused.
