investigation

Mr Péchier said at the time he was being framed but a few weeks later he was placed under formal investigation.

The contest was triggered by Rayner's resignation following an investigation which found she had breached the ministerial code after admitting she had underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty on a new home earlier this year.

And then, the entire edifice crumbled as Baltimore became the focus and fall guy for one of the more infamous investigations of scientific misconduct in the last half of the 20th century.

A police investigation into the money trail revealed that Mr Piyush's account barely had a balance of few thousand rupees before the transfer.

Prosecutors said an initial investigation pointed to sabotage.