The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will shortly send a letter rogatory to the US authorities to question Dow Chemicals, which was fined by a US district court after its subsidiary DE-Nocil was accused of paying bribes worth Rs 80 lakh to Indian officials to register banned pesticides in the Indian market.

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</p><p class='TableClas'>The case was registered by the CBI following a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) discovery last year that DE-Nocil had bribed Indian officials between 1996 and 2001 to approve and register three pesticides 

CBI to send letter rogatory to US in case against Dow subsidiary

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