I have published a few documents relating to 2 G scam through which the Government of India was defrauded to the tune of rs.1,76,000 crores($=INR Rs.48appx.)
The case has been going through twists and turns that could put to shame a top thriller.
Some of the documents(originals) I published have been hacked and I thought it would be better if I could re-publish all the Documents available in a single blog.
These are what is available apart from what you can find under’Corruption’
The Documents are available at www.2gscam.co.in, which is a good source for 2G scam, though one may not agree with all their views.
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TRAI to CBITRAI to CBI page 2
CBI reply to TRAI
CBI Reply.CBI reply page 2
One may recall that TRAI tried to wiggle out of this correspondence in the Court.
Ministry of Finance to PMO.
moF to PMO.
The Prime Minister says he is not aware of this.
The Finance Minister said that this has been sent by the Joint Director with out his(FM) knowledge.
The Joint Director seems to have expected this and has added a note’This has been seen by the Minister”!
Steps have been initiated to water down the 2G scam investigations have begun some time back.
Doubts have been raised over the quantum of loss in allocating 2G licenses by the CAG by releasing an internal memo of the CAG,calling CAG to the PAC and allowing people to accept the fact that the estimated loss is notional with kapil Sibal declaring earlier that there is no loss involved,
Second making the accused complain that they are being forced to admission of wrong doing by the CBI.
Involving the Opposition Parties by extending the investigation to the NDA Government,
Now the raids are on.
Every one knows that Bharti Airtel is BJP,
The investigation will not be over before the elections.
If Congress were to come back to power,it will declare that the people have given their mandate and 2 G will have a natural death, a la Quatatrochchi.
If BJP combine were to come to power,it will also bury the case as BJP will have enough muck to sort out because of these raids, as BJP knows what Mahajan and others would have been upto.
Finally, people of India will be made fools ,as usual.
“The agency has registered a case in the allocation of additional spectrum today during the NDA’s rule,” said a CBI official.
“The agency also raided the Vodafone office in Mumbai, Bharti Airtel office in Gurgaon and residences of Shyamal Ghosh and J.R. Gupta,” the official added. The late Pramod Mahajan of the Bharatiya Janata Party was telecom minister between 2001-2003.
While J.R. Gupta was the deputy director general in the telecom ministry, Shyamal Ghosh was telecom secretary.
Earlier, the investigating agency had conducted a preliminary inquiry regarding the allocation of additional spectrum from 2001 to 2007.
Bharti Airtel, however, denied to any irregularities in spectrum allocated to them. “Bharti Airtel has always maintained the highest standards of corporate governance and regulatory compliance. We would like to categorically state that all the spectrum allotted to us from time to time has been strictly as per the stated government policy. We are providing all details and correspondence to the authorities and shall provide complete support as needed in the matter,” a company’s spokesperson said.
At this rate the accused and witnesses might even sue the CBI for interrupting them in their legal vocation of bribing and cheating!
The CBI should have invented a reason to throw these guys ,including Raja and Kanimozhi for lodging them in jail under Goondas Act.
A Delhi court today asked CBI to file its response to the allegation of an accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case that the agency resorted to an “unhealthy practice” of calling a witness “unofficially” to its office in a bid to “tamper” with the evidence.
Special CBI Judge O P Saini issued a notice to the agency seeking its response by November 23 on a plea filed by Vinod Goenka, a director of Swan Telecom and an accused in the case.
Advocate Majid Memon, appearing for Goenka, filed the application saying prosecution witness A N Sethuraman, Group President of Reliance ADA Group, was “unauthorisedly” and “suspiciously” called by CBI two days before recording of his statement on November 11 in the court.
This was done in the name of refreshing his memory and it amounted to interfering with the trial in an illegal manner, Memon alleged.
The allegation also got the support from Sethuraman, whose cross examination concluded today as he testified “the CBI official did say to me to follow whatever I had earlier stated in my statement (given to the agency).”
“It has transpired in the cross-examination of Sethuraman that shortly before giving of evidence, the witness (Sethuraman) was suspiciously and unauthorisedly invited to the CBI office by a CBI officer and was given his statement under section 161 CrPC to be read for the first time. This is impermissible in law.
For the information of those who are not familiar with the working of Auditing ,it may be mentioned that correspondence and difference of approaches are routine and this does not mean that ‘there is a split”.
One may note that no where in the communication divulged in the news item does it appear that there is a divergence of opinion on the Scam or the magnitude involved. Earlier statement by the CAG office might indicate that the loss is notional and hence it is difficult to quantify it.Common sense says that had the licenses been issued as per the market value, the Government should have received more money than what it has received now.You do not require an Auditor to say this.This is plain common sense.
If the licenses issued were according to market price and mechanism, then how come other Companies paid unheard of premium to buy these Licenses from the original Allottees? For Charity or as a Social Service?
If the transactions are above-board, how is it that people are paid money and why the maze of Transactions to hide the companies?
And why impossible terms were laid to exclude certain companies and favor some?
Long and short of it is that a scam of mammoth proportions has been perpetrated.
Now that the Special Court has framed charges under tough sections, effort is on to discredit the basis on which the case rests,that is CAG Report.
Casting aspersions and professional ethics will water down the Report, thus enble the accused to go scot-free.
The Misinformation on CAG has begun by a group of Media.
Note, all this,after Sonia Gandhi‘s active return to Politics after her illness and the timing of the leakage of this communication is after Karunanidhi met her recently at Delhi!
Please read my blog on Media in India,filed under media.
New Delhi: A split in the CAG over the 2G loss figure has come to the fore. CNN-IBN has accessed copies of confidential notes that show the lead auditor was forced to take the Comptroller Auditor General’s line.
The confidential notes were exchanged between Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and Director General for Audits R P Singh. According to them, R P Singh was coerced into toeing Gupta and CAG Vinod Rai line.
The high and mighty of India’s political and corporate world have been cooling their heels in Tihar Jail for months for their involvement in the 2G scam, largely on the basis of a report prepared by the CAG. However, now there are questions being raised about the report itself.
The letters accessed by CNN-IBN raise a fundamental question – Why was a consensus difficult to reach in the CAG on this report?…
A letter dated February 26, 2010, as the CAG report was in its final stages of auditing, was almost an accusation against RP Singh, one of the main auditors who prepared the report. Singh is the one who recorded his dissent with the loss figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore in the scam.
Written on behalf of Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and addressed to Singh, the letter says, “It appears that there is no strategy planned for auditing the private service providers. Valuable time has been lost since October and work is yet to begin. A report may be sent every Friday, which will be put up before the CAG.”
The CBI said that Supreme Court cannot give such an order and it is for the trial court to take a decision on the issue.
“Questions of any further investigation or addition of accused in the case have to be decided by the trial court and not by this court,” senior advocate K.K. Venugopal, appearing for the CBI, submitted before a bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and A.K. Ganguly.
“Investigation is complete in 2G scam (during the tenure of Mr. Raja) and framing of charges is to be decided by the trial court. If the trial court finds that there is any wrong doer then it can add the person in the list of accused,” he said questioning the jurisdiction of the apex court to entertain Mr. Swamy’s plea.
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