new delhi an official of a high profile consultancy group has come under cbi scanner in connection with its probe into the alleged sale of confidential government records on foreign investment policies to corporate groups by officials cbi sources said that during the questioning of five arrested persons in the case it has come to light that an official of pricewaterhousecoopers pwc was allegedly procuring documents from the department of economic affairs under the finance ministry through khemchand gandhi chartered accountant arrested by the agency two days back in mumbairead also cops hint at highprofile arrests in leakgate while the cbi has claimed that a representative of the company was being probed for obtaining information from the department of economic affairs no confirmation has been received from pwc until nowthese confidential documents related to foreign direct investment policies being considered in the government the sources said investigation has revealed the alleged role of a representative of ms pricewaterhousecoopers in obtaining information from the department of economic affairs which is being probed said a central bureau of investigation officer pwc which has offices in over 150 countries of the world and its indian subsidiary is pwc private ltd said in a statement later that its manager met cbi officials and gave necessary clarifications our manager met cbi officials today in connection with the fipb applications filed by our clients and the official communication that we have exchanged with fipb in this regard in the normal course of business necessary clarification as asked for were provided it saidread also corporate espionage cbi conducts massive raids at several places in delhi the cbi had friday arrested two people including a finance ministry official as part of its probe into the leakage of some documents of finance and corporate affairs ministries and recovered several government files in its raids ram niwas an assistant in the foreign investment promotion board fipb under the ministry was arrested along with paresh chimanlal buddhadev a partner in private firm chitale associates the agency on saturday produced buddhadev in a mumbai court which granted transit remand for bringing him to delhi cbi also produced ram niwas in a court and was allowed his custody for five days ram niwas was allegedly leaking confidential fipb documents while buddhadev was held on charges of obtaining the classified documents as well as destruction of evidence the cbi on thursday filed a case and raided eight places including offices of various ministries and private establishments in new delhi and mumbai and arrested under secretary in department of disinvestment and grievances ashok kumar singh along with section officer of economic affairs department lala ram sharma from delhi chartered accountant khemchand gandhi was also arrested from mumbai the agency sources said they would be probing the role of the consultancy group in detail to gather corroborative evidence and decipher the officialmiddlemancorporate nexus in getting hands on the confidential documentsread also two more arrested in corporate espionage case