NEW DELHI/CHENNAI | DEC 15, 2010
In a crackdown as part of the 2G spectrum scam probe, CBI today searched 34 offices and residences of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia, former TRAI Chairman Pradip Baijal, siblings of ex-Telecom Minister A Raja and an NGO linked to DMK MP Kanimozhi.
A CBI official claimed that some "incriminating documents" were recovered during the raids at 27 places in Tamil Nadu and seven places in Delhi and Noida. The premises of alleged Hawala dealers Mahesh Jain and Alok Jain alias Bobby, who are brothers, were also raided.
The premises of Kamaraj, Associate Editor of Tamil magazine Nakkeran in Chennai, Raja's brother and sister near Tiruchirappalli and Tamil Maiyam, an NGO in which Kanimozhi, daughter of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, is on the Board of Directors were among those searched. Kamaraj is considered close to Raja.
Tamil Maiyam, which describes itself as a registered Indian non-profit organization, is headed by Rev.Jegath Gasper Raj.
The investigating agency also swooped down on the premises of Raja's auditor Subramanyam and also auditor of Kanimozhi's mother Rajathi.
At Tiruchirappalli, CBI officials raided the residence of a private TV channel reporter G L Narasimhan, considered a close associate of Raja.
The raids come a week after the searches in the homes of Raja in Delhi and in his native place Perambalur and a number of others.
During the course of the day, the CBI also roped in Enforcement Directorate officials to probe whether there was a possible violation of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), sources in the investigating agency said.
Radia, Baijal, Jain brothers and the kin of Raja were questioned during the raids, the sources said, adding that the former TRAI Chairman had also been taken from his Noida house to his company, a subsidary of Radia's Vaishnavi Corporate Communications.
Giving details about the raids being conducted by the CBI, its Deputy Inspector General and spokesperson Bineeta Thakur said searches at the residential and official premises of several companies, their directors and Baijal were conducted as part of the follow up of searches conducted on December eight in connection with the ongoing investigation into the allocation of unified access service licences.
"Searches conducted so far at around 34 places in Tamil Nadu, Delhi and NOIDA (UP) have led to the recovery of incriminating documents," she told reporters in New Delhi.
Radia's office--Vaishnavi Corporate Communications in Central Delhi--and her farm house in South Delhi were among the first of the premises to be raided, sources said, adding some of the persons who had been closely associated with the handling of accounts and funds of Raja were also been searched by the agency.
The residence of Baijal, who retired in 2006 after serving as TRAI chairman for nearly three years, was being also searched in connection with the scam in which CBI has registered a case of loss of Rs 22,000 crore to the exchequer.
“Azhagiri is a Cut Throat Politician”— TN Minister Poongothai to Niira Radia
Dec 14th, 2010 NikamThe wide net cast by Niira Radia across the political, bureaucratic, corporate and media circles, was not just limited to people in Delhi or just the Karunanidhi family in Tamil Nadu. It is now clear that she had made friends even among the Cabinet ministers in the Karunanidhi government in Tamil Nadu, and the latest set of tapes released by Outlook magazine, unravels her connection with Poongothai Aladi Aruna, the IT Minister.
Poongothai Aladi Aruna has a controversial past.
The daughter of late DMK leader Aladi Aruna, a gynaecologist by profession, with a degree from London, was forced to resign in May 2008, as Minister for Social Welfare. She was caught on audio tape (!!) talking to the Director of Anti-Corruption and Vigilance, S.K.Upadhyay, asking him to be soft on a relative of hers, an Electrical Engineer in the Tamil Nadu Electricity department, who was caught taking bribes. When the tapes were exposed by Dr.Subramaniam Swamy, she was forced to quit after Karunanidhi publicly denounced her on the floor of the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
Miraculously, in just nine months, February 2009, she was re-instated by Karunanidhi himself, this time as Minister for Information Technology, the charge she continues to hold. Poongothai in this conversation tells Radia, when the latter suggests that Kanimozhi has to get close to Azhagiri( Kanimozhi’s brother), that she under-estimates Azhagiri(Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers). “They are cut throat politicians, you know” she says. Radia however is relentless in trying to get the siblings together to fight common enemies.
What Karunanidhi and his son, Azhagiri, or for that matter his other son, Stalin, whose appointment as Deputy Chief Minister seems to shock Poongothai(“what’s happeeennning?”, she exclaims), will have to say these revelations would be interesting. This one more facet of the family politics of Tamil Nadu, in which Radia is very much a major player.
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Land deal links Karuna's daughter to 2G web
CNN-IBN Updated Dec 15, 2010 at 11:20pm IST
New Delhi: New drama unfolding in the larger web surrounding the 2G spectrum scam is now leading to the DMK chief Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi Karunanidhi. A Kanimozhi aide was the key player in a multi crore land deal in Chennai where TATA group company Voltas had a connection. The deal is being investigated by the CBI as part of the 2G probe.
CNN IBN accessed documents that exposed the links of a close aide to Kanimozhi in a multi crore land deal involving a landmark plot in chennai where TATA group company Voltas has it's building and office. This is a deal which took place between 2008 and 2009 and something CBI sources say they are investigating as part of the 2G probe.
Close to 53,000 square feet on Chennai's arterial Anna Salai, this land is estimated to be worth over 200 crores. Owned jointly till 2009 by 17 people it was leased out to Voltas in 1975, after which the company invested in this landmark building.
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This Racket spreads North to South, East to West. These dangerous deal between Niira and Barkha, Raja and Sonia, Karunanidhi and Monmohan, Barkha to Kanimozhi via Niira, interlinking TATA and superbly controlled by the Mafia Queen Antiona Maino will certainly destroy the Indian entity, sovereignty, economy and everthing....... Still we tolerate them, the vampires live in the blood of Indian people. SHAME ON US.
Nikam
The wide net cast by Niira Radia across the political, bureaucratic, corporate and media circles, was not just limited to people in Delhi or just the Karunanidhi family in Tamil Nadu. It is now clear that she had made friends even among the Cabinet ministers in the Karunanidhi government in Tamil Nadu, and the latest set of tapes released by Outlook magazine, unravels her connection with Poongothai Aladi Aruna, the IT Minister.Poongothai Aladi Aruna has a controversial past.
The daughter of late DMK leader Aladi Aruna, a gynaecologist by profession, with a degree from London, was forced to resign in May 2008, as Minister for Social Welfare. She was caught on audio tape (!!) talking to the Director of Anti-Corruption and Vigilance, S.K.Upadhyay, asking him to be soft on a relative of hers, an Electrical Engineer in the Tamil Nadu Electricity department, who was caught taking bribes. When the tapes were exposed by Dr.Subramaniam Swamy, she was forced to quit after Karunanidhi publicly denounced her on the floor of the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
Miraculously, in just nine months, February 2009, she was re-instated by Karunanidhi himself, this time as Minister for Information Technology, the charge she continues to hold. Poongothai in this conversation tells Radia, when the latter suggests that Kanimozhi has to get close to Azhagiri( Kanimozhi’s brother), that she under-estimates Azhagiri(Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers). “They are cut throat politicians, you know” she says. Radia however is relentless in trying to get the siblings together to fight common enemies.
What Karunanidhi and his son, Azhagiri, or for that matter his other son, Stalin, whose appointment as Deputy Chief Minister seems to shock Poongothai(“what’s happeeennning?”, she exclaims), will have to say these revelations would be interesting. This one more facet of the family politics of Tamil Nadu, in which Radia is very much a major player.
Read here more.......
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