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Volkswagen-India official arrested, taken to Hyderabad

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NEW DELHI: The CBI has arrested Ashok Jain, Chief Adviser in the India Project of the German automaker Volkswagen in connection with the Rs 11.7-crore car project scam in Andhra Pradesh. CBI sources said that Mr. Jain was arrested in the early hours of Friday in Gurgaon, Haryana, and flown to Hyderabad where he has been remanded.

His premises were raided by the CBI on Thursday. Last week, the agency registered a case against officials of Vasistha Wahan a private firm and other unknown persons to whom the Andhra Pradesh government had released Rs. 11.7 crores (about two million euros) for a joint venture project for a car manufacturing plant.

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