Swiss Timing charged in Delhi Games graft case

Sports timing company Swiss Timing has been charged by Indian police over alleged kickbacks contained in a contract it won for the Delhi Commonwealth Games, a police statement said.

The Swiss group, which has been timekeeper at a host of Olympics Games, most recently in Beijing in 2008, has been named in the latest charges in a wide-ranging police probe into the graft-tainted October event in New Delhi.

Two high-ranking officials, the closest aides to the unpopular chairman of the event Suresh Kalmadi, have also been charged with criminal conspiracy, cheating and corruption, the statement issued late Tuesday said.

Police said Swiss Timing had supplied equipment "at exorbitant rates of one 1.07 billion rupees (220,000 dollars) and thereby causing huge loss to the government," it said.