The Radia tapes controversy relates to the taped and released telephonic conversations between Nira (also Niira) Radia, a professional lobbyist and politicians, corporates and industrialists, officials, bureaucrats, aides and journalists that were taped by the Indian Income Tax Department in 2008-09. The tapes led to government and public accusation that these calls documented planning of the 2G spectrum scam, along with other criminal and unconstitutional malpractices. Nira Radia runs apublic relations firm named Vaishnavi Corporate Communications and also operates through subsidiaries such as Neucom, Noesis Strategic Consulting Services and Vitcom Consulting whose clients, among others, include Ratan Tata’s Tata Group,Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and Prannoy Roy’s NDTV.
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After getting authorization from the Home Ministry, the Indian Income Tax department tapped Radia’s phone lines for 300 days in 2008-2009, as part of it’s investigations into alleged large scale money laundering, tax evasion and financial malpractices by Niira Radia.
A Hindi web portal Bhadas4media took up this story as early as May 2010 when on 07 May 2010, the first article was published. and requests for information under the Right to Information Act’
In November 2010, OPEN magazine carried a story which reported transcripts of some of the telephone conversations of Niira Radia with senior journalists, politicians, and corporate houses, many of whom have denied the allegations. The Central Bureau of Investigation has announced that they have 8000 recordings of phone conversations by Radia in relation to the 2G spectrum sale.
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In the recorded conversations between Nira Radia and prominent figures, several prominent figures are heard in conversation with Radia:
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The CAG report indicts RCOM of deriving undue benefits as well as Bharati/Idea/Vodafone for hoarding spectrum resulting substantial loss to the GoI exchequer running in thousands of crores, yet the media remain silent on the same. Are the tapes therefore a diversionary tactic, why are the indicted parties not being investigated.