AIRCELMAXISSCAM | ED SENDS LR TO MALAYSIA, MAURITIUS
Thursday, 12 February 2015 | PNS | New Delhi
Acting on Enforcement Directorate’s petition, the 2G Special Court on Wednesday issued Letter Rogatory (LR) to Malaysia and Mauritius in connection with money trail probes of Aircel-Maxis scam. The Enforcement Directorate’s move came after the probe on money laundering found doubtful transactions between foreign companies Maxis and Astro to Sun TV Group, headed by Maran family.
The LRs were also sent seeking details of financial transfer details of Maxis promoters and accused T Ananda Krishnan and Ralph Marshal. Meanwhile, in the 2G case, ED informed the court that Kalaignar TV manipulated documents to show that kickback of Rs.200 crore from accused Shahid Balwa’s companies as genuine business transactions.
Rajeshwar Singh, Deputy Director and Investigating Officer of Enforcement Directorate deposed before the Special Judge OP Saini that the documents were manipulated by DMK controlled Kalaignar TV were during the period when CBI registered FIR and summoned the former Telecom Minister A Raja.
“The transactions from Cineyug Films to Kalaignar TV are not genuine and have done in a manner to conceal the true nature of money being sent. There are various inconsistent documents like SSA and ICSs and promissory notes, board resolutions etc. Balance sheets do not reflect the true nature of transactions. The contents of balance sheets are not true,” said Rajeshwar Singh in his deposition to 2G Special Court.
The ED also told the Court, after Raja was summoned by CBI, Kalaignar TV returned the kickback of Rs.200 crore received from Balwa by collecting money from several industrialists. The Industrialists like India Cements owner and BCCI Chief N Sreenivasan and UB Group Chief Vijay Mallya’s companies routed money to Kalaignar TV to pay back the kickback to Balwa.
“The agreement between Kalaignar TV and India Cements, Gemini Industries and United Spirits are for an unprecedentedly high value,” the ED officer told the court citing the probe findings. The ED also informed that some portion of the money was collected from dubious companies registered in Kolkata to return the kickback collected from Balwa linked companies. Telecom Minister A Raja and DMK patriarch’s daughter Kanimozhi were chargesheeted for accepting Rs.200crore from Swan Telecom owners Balwa and Vinod Goenka for allotting telecom licenses in 2008.http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/aircelmaxisscam--ed-sends-lr-to-malaysia-mauritius.html