Panaji: A special anti-corruption court on Friday extended former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat's interim bail in connection with the Louis Berger bribery scam. The order on his anticipatory bail plea will be delivered on August 19.

Kamat, along with former PWD minister Churchill Alemao and other government officials have been accused of allegedly accepting a $976,630 bribe in 2010 from officials of US-based Louis Berger consultancy firm to secure implementation rights of a multi-billion dollar water and sewerage project in Goa worth Rs.1,031 crore funded by the Japan International Co-Operation Agency (JICA), which was cleared in 2010 by a Congress-led coalition government.