While Karunanidhi has become a Super Judge and been picking up mathematical holes in Jayalalithaa Assets case, forgetting the 2 G Scam, involving ₹1766.45 billion (US$28 billion)g his daughter, his A.Raja and the others, the Home Ministry of India is contemplating not to renew the licence to SUN TV Network for its involvement in the 2 G Spectrum scam.
SUN Network Logo.
For threadbare expose of of the spectrum scam, including Radia, Kanimozhi Jaffer Sait Tapes,PMO Documents please check under Corruption, Radia Tapes.
I stopped writing on the scams as I was fed up.
I am posting this lest Karunanidhi and Co may not feel people have forgotten it .
Let him not talk of Morality .
“New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry may not grant licence to Kalanithi Maran-promoted Sun TV Network’s group companies for alleged involvement of its owners in 2G spectrum scam and Aircel Maxis cases before various courts and investigating agencies.
The stand is likely to be communicated to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry as Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley had written a letter to Home MinisterRajnath Singh on the issue, official sources said in New Delhi.
The company operates 45 radio channels under the brand name Suryan FM in Tamil Nadu and Red FM in rest of the country.
The Home Ministry said the company and its owners were allegedly involved in 2G scam, alleged bungling in Aircel-Maxis deal as well as running an “illegal” connections of telephones used for uploading their content, the sources said.
The company of Kalanithi, who is the brother of former union minister Dayanidhi Maran, had sought renewal of licence of its radio channels from one phase to another.
Under the switchover of phase, the company could operate more channels in the same bandwidth.’
I was travelling to Tiruchi recently and happened to meet some one who is a reliable source for DMK Family news.
Hotel Saravana Bhavan Bought by SUn Network?
Casually he remarked that the Sun Network has bought the Chennai based Saravana Bhavan Group of Hotels,
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On checking up the web I came to know that there was indeed a rumor to this effect triggered by a Tweet ans even the IT Department found it credible enough to think of a raid in the Saravana Bhavan Premises.
It seems that the rumor is untrue.
As my source is normally reliable, as has been proved in many a case before, and the fact that the information is the latest, only 2 G Knows!
Story:
CHENNAI: It had all the makings of a viral tweet. It mentioned a “rumour” about Kalanithi Maran‘s Sun Groupbuying the home-grown restaurant chain Hotel Saravana Bhavan. That too, for a jaw-dropping sum. Yet, this Mondaytweet by Bangalore-based techie RB Suseendran received a tepid response, at best.
It would have died a natural death if journalists hadn’t seen this tweet. They did. And on Monday journalists scurried for confirmation from both parties…
This, even as journalists wondered why Maran would buy into the food business, however yummy (Saravana Bhavan has daily footfalls of some 80,000 across its 32 Indian outlets; there are 46 more overseas), when he is yet struggling with this 2010 acquisition of carrier SpiceJet.
Both parties denied it vehemently on Monday. A Sun TV spokesperson called it “hilariously funny” while another thought it was “rubbish.” A spokesperson for Saravana Bhavan denied it too.
The episode seemed to have ended then and there, without a story. But it hadn’t.
On Tuesday, the Income Tax Department got alerted. An official called up Saravana Bhavan to see this tweet indeed was true. Taxmen had raided the hotel just a few months back.
When ET contacted Suseendran over phone, he said he merely picked up the new from the Facebook page of one Anbalagan Veerappan.
The hotel, not so savvy in the ways of social media, was left wondering where it all came from.”
I read in a Tamil weekly that the assets of the DMK party controlled Trusts, including Murasoli Maran Trus runs into 40,ooo Crore!(Kumudam Reporter 13/2/2014)
Family of Karunanidhi
I checked .
( The transfer of these assets among the children of Karunanidhi is the main reason behind the sacking of m.Azhagiri.Detailed post follows)
Group of Kal Media Services Pvt. Ltd.
32 TV Channels across Indian languages
45 Radio stations across all India
2 daily newspapers in Tamil language
4 weekly magazines in Tamil language
Sun Pictures – a leading film production and distribution company
Sun Direct – one of India’s leading DTH companies, also first to carry HD channels in India
Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV) – Multi System Operators (MSO)
Sun 18 south – to distribute its channels
Kal Airways Pvt. Ltd. Spicejet
Sun riser’s IPL(Indian premiar league)Cricket Team
Rs4228,000 worth of movable property which includes fixed deposit, joint account with wife and life insurance.[46] The approximate value of their immovable property based on market value was Rs16930,000.[46]
Karunanidhi has moveable assets of around Rs.49.3 million, Rs.153.4 million for his first wife, Dayalu and Rs.208.3 million for his second wife Rajathi.[47] Karunanidhi has an income of Rs.3.7 million per annum Rs.6.4 million for Dayalu and 16.7 million for Rajathi.[47]
Azhagiri owns 18 acres and 63 cents of agricultural land, 1 acre and 82 cents plus 23,278 sq ft non-agricultural land, a 20 cent plot, flats in Chennai and Madurai, 40 million in fixed deposit and 13.9 million in his savings account.[42]
She owns fixed deposits worth Rs65.8 million, a commercial building in Anna Salai worth Rs16.1 million, shares worth Rs350,000 in a company called Westgate Logistics, gold and diamond jewellery worth Rs361,000 and a car, Toyota Camry worth Rs1870,000.[39]
Earlier I blogged on the fact that Dayanidhi maran, former Telecom Minister and Grand nephew of DMK Supremeo, Karunanidhi and Brother of Kalaanidhi Maran who controls SUN TV Group.
Now the CBI has deposed before the JPC that it has evidence that Dayanidhi Maran had received the Bribe from Astro All Asia Net Woks Plc-Rs. 549.96 Crore by way of investment in SUN DTH at an inflated rate.
Astro All Asia Net Woks Plc is a related company of Maxis Communication.
CBI is reported to have quizzed Dayanidhi Maran last week on this and he is reported to have replied in writing.
What is of note is that this action comes just after The Presidential Election and new alignments are in the offing for the next General Elections.
Story:
The CBI has recently questioned the former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in connection with a case against him, his brother Kalanithi Maran and Malaysian business tycoon and head of Maxis Communications T. Ananda Krishnan of allegedly coercing the former owner of Aircel Televentures C. Sivasankaran into selling his equity in Aircel.
Mr. Dayanidhi Maran allegedly denied Mr. Sivasankaran’s firm seven pending 2G spectrum licences in various circles, and the Point of Interconnection facility from the state-owned BSNL.
The CBI alleged that an illegal gratification of Rs. 549.96 crore accrued to the Maran brothers from the purchase of Sun Direct TV shares by Astro All Asia Networks Plc, a related company of Maxis Communications, allegedly at a “highly inflated” rate.
Tehelka exposed the shenanigans of Maran and Maran has come out with a defense ‘ there was no loss to the government during his tenure as Union telecom minister, Maran said he was not even a minister when Astroinvested in Sun TV Network. “I own no shares or interest in Sun TV Network,” .
He is said to have issued notice to Tehelka, which is nothing but legal non sense with no substance and facts…..
Is Ananda Krishnan a front for Maran?
Facts seem to speak differently.
According to sources, the CBI has now trained its guns on a strikingly similar deal — though the quantum is almost four times that of the Balwa-Kalaignar transaction — between Sun TV Group, owned by the family of Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran, and Malaysian business conglomerate Maxis Group and owner of 74 percent direct equity in Aircel Group, the country’s seventh biggest telecom operator….
In November 2006, then Telecom Minister Maran granted 14 (UASL) for Aircel. The licence, along with the startup 2G spectrum, was awarded at the same price at which later Raja gave away 2G licenses to Swan, Unitech and a host of other players in 2008 — Aircel paid Rs 1,399 crore for 14 telecom circles, the price was arrived at through an auction process in 2001 when the telecom industry was in its nascent stage.
The telecom licences to Aircel were awarded after about two years of ‘unwarranted’ delay on the part of the DoT headed by Maran at the time. Aircel’s applications for new circles were pending since Maran’s takeover as minister for communications and IT in May 2004. According to the report prepared by the one-man committee of Justice (retired) Shivraj Patil constituted to examine the appropriateness of procedures followed by DoT in issuing licences during the period 2001-2009, the DoT kept raising ‘irrelevant’, ‘vague’ and ‘unwarranted’ queries about different aspects related to Aircel and kept the applications pending (Patil submitted his report to present Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on 31 January)….
It was only after March 2006, when Malaysian business tycoon T Ananda Krishnan, whose parents were Sri Lankan Tamils, bought 74 percent stake in Aircel, that its file gained momentum. Until then the company was owned by C Sivasankaran, the chairman of Siva Group (earlier known as Sterling Infotech Group). Krishnan paid Rs 3,390.82 crore for 74 percent equity in Aircel. Today, Aircel is the seven biggest telecom operator in the country with its net worth valued in the range of $7.5-$8 billion…”
SUN TVCOO, Saxena started singing, according to Police Sources.
2 G Raja is expected to follow suit to implicate Dayanidhi Maran in 2 G Scam as well as other Scams when Maran was a Central Minister.
It may be recalled Raja was the replacement of Maran at the Center after he was forced to resign by Karunanidhi, following publication of a Survey in their magazine stating that Stalin was preferred as CM next to Karunanidhi.
Raja , being close to Kanimozhi was accommodated in the Cabinet to appease Kanimozhi declared on assuming office that Maran was responsible for irregularities in the Telecom Ministry.
Maran was in wilderness for a while till Karunanidhi patched up with him.
Maran believes that Kanimozhi and co responsible for his problems and Kanimozhi and Raja believe Maran to be responsible for their media exposure in the 2 G scam.
Kalanidhi Maran‘s(elder brother and Boss of SUN NETWORK Group) close friend publicly declared in Times Now News Channel that the corruption Charges about Maran were fabricated by A.Raja when he was Telecom Minister.
It was also reported that Kanimozhi,her mother Rajathi and Raja celebrated the mentioning of Maran by the CBI in the Chargesheet in 2 G scam by distributing Laddus.
Taking a cue from Saxena,Raja is likely to involve Dayanidhi Maran further in the 2 G Scam.
Maran is bound to retaliate.
We are in for real entertainment at the cost of the Nation.
Sun Pictureschief operating officerHansraj Saxena has given his interrogators details of several controversial transactions, but maintained that he was only a employee carrying out orders of his bosses, the city police said. Saxena, who was taken into police custody on Saturday, was returned to judicial custody on Sunday. …
Police sources said Saxena was more forthcoming on Saturday while being interrogated. “He gave some information about many business transactions. He said he was but an employee who was doing his duty as directed by his superiors. He said he had no independent role to play and that several complaints are being filedon thesamedeal,to fix him,” a police officer said.
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