Still no idea,Kanimozhi ,DMK?
CBI told the Supreme Court on Thursday that telecom companies donated crores of rupees to a Chennai-based cultural NGO – withDMK MP Kanimozhi as a director — days before they got spectrum licences on January 10, 2008 during A Raja‘s tenure as telecom minister.
Source The Times of India,06/5/11
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703992704576306880460191142.html
Kanimozhi, member of Parliament and daughter of Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK supremo M Karunanidhi, stands the risk of landing in Tihar jail, where former telecom minister A Raja has already been lodged.
Summoned by a CBI special court on May 6 in the 2G case, Kanimozhi’s risk became grave with the Delhi high court adjourning the hearing of the bail pleas of the five telecom executives accused in the case to May 6.
Source .Hindustan Times % May 2011.
There has been regular TV ads in SUN and Kalaignar TV on Free 108 Ambulance Service.
These ads have reached their peak during the recently concluded Elections.
Apart from this, many functions attended by M.K.Stalin and Karunanidhi where they have been eulogized by party men and those who have been benefited by hyperboles which would make one wince in embarrassment have been telecast repeatedly.
Most of us were under the impression that these ,being government functions, were being telecast free of cost as a matter of Public information.
It transpires that the Government of Tamil Nadu has been paying @ Rs 9700/10 sec to Kalaignar TV and Rs 23,474 to SUN TV.
This information was collected by Sri Santhanam of Chrome pet, Chennai under RTI from the executive Director EMRI,Chennai.( on December 30,2010-the information is made available today)
Podhigai Channel run by the Government, has no ads of this nature.
Kalaignar TV.
Karuna’s daughter Kanimozhi 60%
Wife Dayalu 20%
SUN TV is owned by Karuna’s nephews.
( Karunanidhi withdrew from the SUN Board for a hefty settlement some time back;that he felt short changed in the process was one of the reasons for his tiff with Maran family.)
Thank you,Geetha Subramanian and Srinivasan
Leave alone Politics.
As it is, it is difficult to control Children.
You have a woman who seems to have a mind of her own. (at the cost of the country,well,when you don’t bother about your Father, this is nothing)
What else can poor Karunanidhi do,especially when she happens to be the step sister of his politically ambitious sons?
Where does the party come into this picture?
We have different rules for the Rulers and the Ruled.
Naive people like Gandhiji, Kamaraj and Kakkan do not know anything about party or Country.
We shall believe Slogans on Tamil,Tamils,Dravidians,Brahmins vs Non-Brahmin’s, Aryan Conspiracy,’I shall give you my self’ dialogs, Poor Sudra,take free liquor and Biriyani on Election Day and worship ‘Muthamizh Vithagar,Tamizhinath Thalaivar, Tamizhavel Dr.Kalaignar.
New Delhi: The new 800 tapped conversations involving the lobbyist Ms Nira Radia in the 2G spectrum scam, which have been released now, have shown the lobbyist remarking Rajya Sabha MP and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi had threatened to commit suicide.
http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/exclusive-kanimozhi-threatened-to-commit-suicide-1646886.html
Related:
In his address to the party’s high level committee, excerpts of which were released to the press, he stressed that he would not sacrifice the party’s interest to protect any individual.
“I have never succumbed to any design to betray our party. And I, for one, don’t believe that this movement I lead should ever bow before anybody,” he declared.
At the same time, he backed Ms. Kanimozhi to the hilt, declaring that he looked at her more as an efficient party volunteer than as his daughter.
“Nobody can say her rise is because she is my daughter,” he claimed. He cited her activities in organising job fairs in different parts of Tamil Nadu, at which 1.34 lakh people had got employment, and in conducting the ‘Chennai Sangamam,’ a cultural show featuring the state’s folk arts, to argue that she had done much for society at large.
“It is out of jealousy that many are against Ms. Kanimozhi,” Mr. Karunanidhi said.
He said she was reluctant to attend the high-level committee meeting at the DMK headquarters because hundreds of reporters and photographers were waiting outside her residence to raise questions.
“I went there personally to fetch her for this meeting. Not because I wanted to save my daughter, but because one must understand that protecting her on behalf of the party is important to ensure that the party’s image is not tainted.”
http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/28/stories/2011042860271000.htm
Kanimozhi,MP, is likely to be booked by Enforcement Directorate for laundering money under PMLA(Prevention of Money Laundering Act)..
ED is to call her for questioning and the process for attachment of the properties of Kalaignar TV is on.
Kanimozhi and Dayalu(Karunanidhi’s legal wife) control 80% of Kalaignar TV stocks-Kanimozhi 60%,Dayalu 20 %.
This is based on CBI’s supplementary charge sheet naming Kanimozhi as Co-Conspirator in the 2G Scam.
Related;
The 48-page charge sheet said Ms. Kanimozhi had actively pursued with the intermediaries and DMK headquarters the matter regarding reappointment of accused A. Raja as Minister of Communications and Information Technology in 2009 which “clearly establishes the strong association of accused Kanimozhi and A. Raja in the official/political matters.”
The investigation disclosed that there were a number of circumstances which together conclusively “establish that the amount of Rs. 200 crore paid by Dynamix Realty to Kalaignar TV through Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt. Ltd. and Cineyug Films Pvt. Ltd. was not a genuine business transaction but was in the nature of illegal gratification paid in lieu of the Unified Access Service [UAS] Licences, valuable spectrum and other undue benefit given by accused public servants to Swan Telecom Pvt. Ltd.”
The charge sheet has kept its focus on trying to pin down the money trail that ultimately led to payment of “illegal gratification” of more than Rs. 200 crore to Kalaignar TV through a circuitous route. It said investigation had revealed that for all the transactions of more than Rs. 200 crore between Dynamix Realty, Kusegaon Fruits & Vegetables Pvt. Ltd., Cineyug and Kalaignar TV, claimed to be in nature of loan, no valid agreement was signed between any of the parties and no collaterals/securities were ensured to secure the alleged loan amounts.
The charge sheet stated that accused Asif Balwa and Rajiv B. Agarwal, both directors of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt. Ltd. (now Kusegaon Realty Pvt. Ltd.) and accused Karim Morani, director of Cineyug Films Pvt. Ltd. (now Cineyug Media and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.), Mumbai, had intentionally aided and facilitated the payment of illegal gratification of Rs. 200 crore as a reward for undue favours shown to their group company Swan Telecom to Kalaignar TV on behalf of Mr. Raja, Sharad Kumar and Ms. Kanimozhi and “gave it a colour of a regular business transaction.”
“These facts and circumstances constitute commission of offence during 2007-2011, punishable under Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 against A. Raja, Sharad Kumar and Kanimozhi, and Section 12 of the PC Act, 1988 against Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka, Asif Balwa, Rajiv B. Agarwal and Karim Morani,” it said.
The charge sheet sought to demolish the defence of the accused persons that the transaction of Rs. 200 crore among Dynamix Realty, Kusegaon Fruits & Vegetables Pvt. Ltd., Cineyug and Kalaignar TV were “genuine business transactions” in the nature of loans/advances. It listed 14 circumstances in support of the charge that the transaction in question amounted to illegal gratification.
http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/26/stories/2011042657291200.htm
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