After remaining elusive for three days, Former Karnataka minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy saturday appeared before the police in connection with an alleged Ponzi scam, and denied the allegations as a "political conspiracy”. The mining baron has been accused of criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence. Now likely to face time behind bars in a RS 600 Crore fraud case. While he's no longer associated with the BJP, Janardhan Reddy surfaced again when he campaigned for a key BJP face b Sriramulu as the state went to polls this year in May. These developments come months after the ED crackdown on a key congress leader DK Shivakumar in the state to the party's embarassment.