The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Lokayukta, probing illegal export of iron ore from Belikeri port has arrested G.M. Lingaraju, younger brother of Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Davangere MP, G.M. Siddeswara on Saturday.
He was produced before the Lokayukta Special Court and remanded into judicial custody till April 28 and is now lodged in Parappana Agrahara Central Prison Complex.
G.M. Lingaraju owned company, GEM laboratories, a food and beverages export firm is accused of exporting 12,500 metric tonnes of iron ore from Belekeri port in 2009-10, without any proper documents.
An official leading the probe said that of the many consignments that the company shipped out, six of them had no documentation at all and this was considered to be illegal export after the firm has failed to produce any documentation to the contrary.
The SIT had summoned Mr. Lingaraju for questioning on Saturday and later arrested him after he failed to submit documents that accounted for the 12,500 MT of illegal export of iron ore.
