By IANS,
New Delhi : Issuing fake invoices for reimbursing travel expenses was wrong, Arvind Kejriwal said Thursday and added that only a proper investigation could prove whether his Team Anna colleague Kiran Bedi had given inflated bills.
“If the NGOs which called Kiranji have any problem, they can lodge an FIR,” Kejriwal told reporters.
“Giving fake bills is wrong, but whether the bills were fake or not, only a police probe can tell,” he said.
“Someone called her, whatever was reimbursed, the saving was given to the NGO, that is what we know.”
Bedi has said the organisations that invited her “voluntarily” paid her for business class tickets but she travelled economy and the money saved went to her NGO India Vision Foundation.
Her response came after a news report that she charges inflated travel expenses from NGOs and other institutions that invite her for seminars or meetings. The Indian Express also claimed to be in possession of bills, invoices and copies of cheques which show that Bedi, who is entitled to a rebate on Air India tickets as a gallantry award winner, pays discounted fares but charges her host institutions the full fare.