“I have named DMK chief Karunanidhi as a co-accused along with Raja in the matter and many more names will be added,” Swamy told the court.
He said the matter is wider than the CBI investigation and in the “nation’s interest”.
The court asked the probe agency to file its detailed report of the investigation and also whether it covers the aspect of national security as raised by Swamy.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge Pradeep Chaddha issued notice to the CBI seeking prosecution of Raja in the 2G spectrum case.
The notice has been issued for February 22.
The order came on a private complaint filed by Swamy seeking registration of a criminal case against Raja for his alleged role in the scam, which, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), caused a presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer.
Meanwhile, the CAG has submitted a detailed report in the scam.
Raja and two of his aides were arrested here on Wednesday for their suspected role in the allocation of airwaves for second generation (2G) phone services, billed as the country’s biggest corruption scandal to date. http://www.zeenews.com/news685191.html
Swann telecom sold the licence to Etisalat shortly after being allotted the licence at whooping price.
Swann Telecom is reported to be a front company of a leading Business house in India.
Now Karunanidhi is implicated in all these transactions through intermediaries.
Check the fact that the gentle man who has been raided spent most of his business time in in Dubai and he belongs to a particular community ; he has been chosen to be the intermediary because of religious proximity to powers in UAE/Dubai.
Scam apart, these scamsters have compromised national security.
Is some one listening?
Or is every thing being sacrificed for electoral gains?
If these people continue in this vein they shall have no India to loot further.
NEW DELHI: Investigating agencies probing the alleged irregularity in allocation of 2G licences are examining a transaction in which over Rs 200 crore was transferred from Mumbai-based DB group to Kalaignar TV, a broadcaster majority-owned by family members of DMK party chief M Karunanidhi .
The reason for the transaction—in which Rs 214 crore was transferred in fiscal 2009-10 from a subsidiary of DB Realty to Kalaignar TV by way of two other companies—was for an entity called Cineyug to pick over 30% in the TV channel, says a senior DB Realty official.
But the deal fell through because of valuation differences and the money has since been repaid, the official—Asif Balwa, DB Realty’s CFO and executive director—said.
Officers from investigating agencies are interested in the deal because the telecom arm of DB Realty figures among the companies that bagged 2G licences in 2008. A Raja , the controversial former telecom minister and a leading light of the DMK who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday, was in charge when the licences were handed out, allegedly at below-market prices.
The DB group’s telecom arm had sold 45% to UAE-based Etisalat for $900 million in 2009. The company, earlier known as Swan Telecom, is now known as Etisalat-DB.
Three-legged deal
The officials from the investigating agencies say the money was transferred in three stages in the course of financial year 2009-10. The first involved transfer of money of around Rs 200 crore from Dynamix Realty to Kusegaon Realty Pvt Ltd.
Cineyug denies links with DB
DB Realty, according to its 2009-10 annual report, owns 99% in Dynamix Realty, a partnership firm. In turn, Balwa and another DB Realty employee, Rajiv Agarwal Batekrishna, have equal stake in Kusegaon Realty, as per documents filed with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, or MCA.
In the second leg, Kusegaon Realty invested Rs 206 crore in Cineyug Films Pvt Ltd. This amount is classified under the loans and advances category in the audited annual accounts of Kusegaon in 2009-10. Kusegaon owns 49% of Cineyug and the rest is held by the Morani brothers, who run event management companies, according to MCA flings.
For both Cineyug and Kusegaon, the transfer of money amounting to around Rs210 crore accounted for more than 95% of the total balance-sheet size.
In the final leg, Cineyug gave Rs214.8 crore as advances to Kalaignar TV in 2009-10, according to filings with MCA. The owners of Cineyug denied any links with DB Realty.
“There is no business association between Cineyug and DB group. The transaction between Kusegaon and Cineyug is purely a business transaction and at present Kusegaon owns a stake in Cineyug,” says Karim Morani, promoter of Cineyug in a faxed reply to a questionnaire sent by ET. “However, I know the promoters of DB Group, i.e. Vinod Goenka, for the last 40 years,” he adds. DB Realty is owned by Shahid Balwa and Goenka.According to both Morani and Asif Balwa, the money (Rs214 crore) was transferred to acquire 27-34% of Kalaignar TV, but the deal did not transpire because of differences in valuation.
At this stage, says Balwa, there was no option but to convert what was originally intended to be share subscription money into a loan.
“The loan was secured against an agreement to pledge 100% shares of the promoters of Kalaignar TV which gave a cover of 2.5 times the amount of loan,” he says. The money has subsequently been repaid with interest, according to Balwa.
‘Kalaignar professionally run’
Karunanidhi’s wife MK Dayalu and daughter Kanimozhi own 60% and 20% of Kalaignar TV, respectively. But Sharad Kumar, who owns 20% of Kalaignar TV, says the two ladies had no role whatsoever in any of this.”We were looking at investors and we contacted some people. Morani and I go back a long way so this worked out.
All the Raja’s men (L- R) Sadiq Batcha, owner of Green House; Jegath Gasper Raj (in yellow shirt); and the media outside Raja’s Delhi house
Precisely the reason Congress is cheesed off publicly and DMK in private.
Raja seems to have taken more than 10% initially agreed upon.
The covenant was 60 to Sonia Gandhi, 30 to Karunanidhi and 10 to Raja.( Swamy’s statement)
Congress is wary of taking strict action as the cat will be out of the bag.
DMK is waiting for alliance with Congress.
If it comes through Raja will be dumped; else Raja will be portrayed as a ‘Dalit’ and a ‘victim of Dravidian Aryan conspiracy’.
Raja ran his empire through proxy. To ensure his directors didn’t take their roles too seriously, he got advance undated resignations from them….
As the CBI puts the jigsaw puzzle together, it finds Raja had set up front companies well before the spectrum allocation: a mix of hawala channels, realty firms, NGOs, family trusts and export firms ensuring safe passage for the spoils of politics. For this, he established contact with NRIs, audit firms in Malaysia and local companies in Chennai, Perambalur, Trichy, and Coimbatore. With easy money flowing in, many became millionaires overnight.
One such man was Sadiq Batcha, who heads several real estate firms in Chennai. Twenty years ago, he was a salesman in Pallapatti village in Salem district, knocking at doors to sell sarees on 10 instalments. Later, he sold radios and tape recorders. Unable to make ends meet, he migrated to Perambalur, where he met AIADMK’s Varathur Arunachalam. This was his stroke of luck, his key to fame and fortune. Arunachalam introduced him to Raja, a small-time DMK politician. Both were ambitious and ready to take risks. It was Raja who told him to venture into real estate. With small investments on both sides, they grew together. Today Batcha’s real estate empire is worth more than Rs. 2,000 crore.
Batcha floated companies one after another with Raja’s close relatives on the board of directors. Chennai-based Green House Promoters, a private limited company set up in 2004 with a seed capital of Rs. 1 lakh, grew exponentially to record a turnover of several hundred crores in a short span. It opened an office in Singapore in 2006. Raja’s wife Parameshwari joined the board in 2007. The Enforcement Directorate issued a notice to the company for Foreign Exchange Management Act violations and the Singapore office was shut down in 2009.
WHILE INTERROGATING RP Paramesh Kumar, the son of Raja’s sister Vijayammal, and joint managing director of Green House Promoters, the CBI has unearthed huge money transfers through export orders. The Enforcement Directorate is probing the possibility of the use of textile and vegetable exporters based in Chennai, Tirupur and Coimbatore to channel the money through hawala operations.
Paramesh Kumar is a common factor in all Raja companies, whose personal and company accounts show large-scale money transactions. But then, all the companies made huge profits within a short span of time — and this happened from 2008 onwards, right when the rest of the world was coping with the global meltdown.
CHENNAI: With Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers M.K. Alagiri showing signs of disquiet at not being able to have his way in the affairs of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the party leadership is worried about the political fall-out, with the general election only months away.
Mr. Alagiri, who was never comfortable as a Union Minister, spoke to his father and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi a few days ago about his desire to play a greater role in the DMK. Although he was made the organising secretary for the southern zone of the party, Mr. Alagiri resented the fact that his younger brother and Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.K. Stalin, continued to wield influence within the party units in the southern districts.
Developments over the 2G spectrum issue also appear to have agitated Mr. Alagiri, who wanted the party to take a tough line against the former Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, A. Raja. Mr. Alagiri asked Mr. Karunanidhi to remove Mr. Raja from his post as the DMK’s propaganda secretary, arguing that the party needed to distance itself from the spectrum scam.
It has been on the card that both M.K.Stalin and Azhagiri were insistent on sacking Raja the moment 2G scam hit , as they felt that with the elections looming near,Raja would be a liability..Karunanidhi was not in favor of the suggestion.
The covert reason is that Kanimozhi M.P.,daughter of Karunanidhi through his companion(?) was in favor of retaining Raja .CIT colony, is the second or is it the first(?) power center of DMK(the others being MK.Stalin and Azhagiri-note the party has no say involvement in running the Government/party)
Also Azhagiri is reported to be in a rage over the remarks of Poongothai,Minister of DMK who was sacked for trying to influence vigilance department(I think she has been taken back after some time-one tends to forget the convolutions of Tamil Nadu politics) to Radia and Kanimozhi’s remarks about him in the notorious Radia tapes.(He was called a ruffian and uneducated).
For the time being Stalin and Azhagiri who were at each other’s throats are now together in the wake of the new power centre trying to exert influence.
The main grouse of both Congress and DMK about Raja is that he had cornered more share of 2G loot than them.
DMK/Congress are wary of prosecuting Raj lest he may spill the beans.
Story:
Chennai: It’s once again open war within the DMK’s first family. Party chief M Karunanidhi‘s son, MK Alagiri has reportedly submitted his resignation from the Cabinet. He was Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers. Alagiri has also quit his post within the DMK as Organising Secretary.
Mr Alagiri is reportedly demanding that his father sack A Raja, at the centre of the 2G Telecom scam, from his party position as “Propaganda Secretary.” Mr Alagiri has also said he wants to concentrate on state politics, turf that had been reserved for his brother, MK Stalin, by his father.
-திராவிடர்களுக்கு எதிராக தமிழக பார்ப்பனர்களும் (சோ,சுவாமி ) மற்றும் ஆரிய ஊடகங்களும் கிளப்பவிட்ட சதி.
சோவிற்கும் சுவாமிக்கும் எந்த அளவு மக்களிடையே செல்வாக்கு உள்ளது என்பது அனைவரும் அறிந்தததே .
மேலும் இந்த ஊழலைப்பற்றி சுவாமி ஒரு வருடத்திற்கு முன்பே பிரதமருக்கு தெரிவித்து உள்ளார் .அப்போது இந்த வாதம் எங்கே போயிற்று ?இதுவரை ஏதும் பேசாமல் இருந்தது ஏன் ?
அவரின் புகார் வர்த்தக நிறுவனங்கள் அவர்களால் நியமிக்கப்பட்ட ‘lobbyist ‘அரசாங்கத்தை நடத்துகிறது ,அந்த நிறுனங்கள் என்ன ஆதாயங்கள் பெற்றுள்ளன அது எதனால் என்பதுதான்..இதற்கு,மறுமொழி மழுப்பலாக இருந்தததால் ,உச்ச நீதி மன்றம் சென்றுள்ளார்..
CAG அறிக்கை எவரால் தயாரிக்கப்பட்டது ?அது எந்த ஒரு விஷயத்திற்காக மட்டும் அமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள அமைப்பு அல்ல .அரசின் நிர்வாகத்தில் எந்த முறைகேடு இருப்பதாக சந்தேகப் பட்டால் அது அறிக்கை வெளியிடும்.
உச்ச நீதி மன்றம் பார்ப்பனர்களால் நடத்தப்படுவது அல்ல..
ஆரியர் சதி என்றால் ஆரியர்களே சதிக்கூட்டம் என்பதுதானே ?
நீங்கள் உறவு கொண்டிருக்கும் சோனியா காந்தி திராவிடரா?அல்லது ‘நிலையான அரசு தருக ‘ என்று அழைத்த இந்திரா காந்தி ஆரியரா ?உங்கள் குடும்பத் தொலைக் காட்சிகளை நடத்துபவர்கள் தமிழர்களா ?
சோ இந்த விவகாரத்தில் , முறைகேடுகள் வெளி வந்தவுடன் கருத்து தெரிவித்தார்.
‘அவதூறு வழக்கு ஊடகங்கள் மற்றும் சோ சுவாமி மீது தொடருவேன் ‘
இது வரை தொடரவில்லை என்பது இருக்கட்டும்..
ஓலி நாடாக்களை வெளியிட்ட outlook மேல் ஏன் தொடரவில்லை?
அது சரி , ஒலிநாடாக்களில் இருப்பது எங்கள் நபர்கள் இல்லை, அது மிமிக்ரி என்று ஏன் மறுக்கவில்லை ?
யாரோ ஒரு உதவியாளர் நில பேர விவகாரத்தில் சம்பந்தப்ப்டுள்ளார் என்பதற்கு சம்பந்தப்பட்டவர்கள் மட்டுமே தெரிந்துகொண்டிருக்கக்கூடிய விஷயங்களை உங்கள் துணைவியார் நீட்டி முழக்கி அறிக்கை விடுப்பது ஏன்?
இத்தனைக்கும் அவரை நேரடியாக யாரும் குற்றம் சாட்டவில்லை .
அப்படி இருக்க , நேரடியாக குற்றம் சாட்டப்பட்ட ராசா ஏன் அறிக்கை விடவில்லை ?
துணைவியாருக்கு வரிந்து கட்டாத கருணாநிதி , ராசாவுக்கு வக்காலத்து ஏன்?
நிருபர் ராசா வீட்டில் CBI சோதனை பற்றிக்கேட்டதற்கு ‘நீ ஏன் பாடு படுகிறாய் ?உன் வீட்டிலா சோதனை’ என்பது ஏன்?
பார்பனர், ஆரியர் சதி ,CAG அறிக்கை இறுதி அல்ல ,சிபிஐ விசாரணை வழக்கமான (?) ஒன்று ,ராசாவை விசாரணைக்குத்தான் அழைத்தாகள்,அது ஒன்றும் இல்லை .
இதுதான் கடமை ,கண்ணியம் மற்றும் கட்டுப்பாடு .
(please read my blogs under Radia tapes,Politics,Business,Corruption,Politicians ,Politics)
The order came on a private complaint filed by Swamy seeking registration of a criminal case against Raja for his alleged role in the scam, which, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), caused a presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer.
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