前印度總理辛格被控貪腐罪大綱

A special court in India on Wednesday sumMoned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to face corruption charges related to the sale of coal fields under his government.

印度一個特別法庭星期三傳喚前總理辛格。他被控任職期間在出售煤田交易中犯有貪腐罪。

Judges ordered Mr. Singh and five others in the case to appear on April 8.

法官命令辛格和其他五人4月8日出庭。

The government sold more than 200 coal blocks during Mr. Singh's time, but India's national auditor said in 2012 that awarding the contracts without competitive bidding cost the government billions of dollars. The supreme court ruled last year the process was illegal.

在辛格擔任總理期間，印度政府出售了200多個煤田，但印度政府審計員2012年表示，當時是在沒有競標的情況下籤訂合同，致使政府蒙受了數十億美元損失。印度最高法院去年做出裁決，認爲交易過程非法。

The charges are part of a string of corruption allegations to hit the Congress party-led government during Mr. Singh's time as prime minister, which also included auditors reporting $40 billion in losses in the sale of mobile phone licenses and widespread graft during the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

辛格擔任總理期間的國大黨政府遭到一系列腐敗指控的打擊。其中還包括審計人員報道的在2010年英聯邦運動會期間銷售手機牌照損失的400億美元，和普片的貪污。

Congress Party spokesman Manish Tewari said "the former government has absolutely nothing to hide" and that they conducted themselves with utmost transparency.

國大黨發言人特瓦里說，“前政府絕對沒有任何東西可以隱瞞”，並自稱行事方式絕對透明。

Mr. Singh was prime minister from 2004 until last year. He was replaced by Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

辛格從2004年至去年擔任印度總理。辛格去職後，人民黨的莫迪接任總理。