Businessman Abhishek Verma and his Romanian wife have been remanded to CBI custody for seven days. They were arrested for allegedly receiving money from a Swiss arms firm for keeping it out of the Indian government's blacklist. Verma and his newly-wed Romanian wife, Ancia Neascu, were arrested on Friday by the CBI after registration of a fresh case by the agency against them.

In the new case, Verma has been accused of taking 5.30 lakh US Dollars from the Swiss firm for using his influence to stall the blacklisting proceedings initiated by the government against the Swiss company after the Ordnance Factory Board scam had surfaced.

The CBI yesterday produced the couple before the special CBI court and sought their custody for 12 days saying the investigation in the case is going on and they need to unearth the entire conspiracy.