13 Years On, CBI Traces Fugitive in CWG Case to French Village

Derek Phillips, a former senior functionary of the Commonwealth Games 2010 organising committee, under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and absconding for the past 13 years, has been tracked down in a small commune in the southwestern region of France, according to agency officials who said an extradition request is now being sent to the French government.

- Neeraj Chauhan

NEW DELHI:

The Global Operations Centre (GOC) of CBI recently located Phillips, a French national—the deputy director general, accreditation/Games Management System (GMS), for the 2010 games in Delhi—in Gaillan en Medoc in France's Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, said one CBI officer who asked not to be named.

The anti-corruption agency registered a case—apart from 18 other first information reports (FIRs) filed around that time to probe CWG-related irregularities—on May 31, 2012 to investigate a contract worth ₹68.4 lakh for supply of lanyards to be used for accreditation passes for the games. Phillips was named as an accused in this case, along with RK Sacheti (then joint director general, coordination and government relations), other officials of the organising committee and a private firm, Tristar Enterprises and representative Vishal Ahuja.