20 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in Corruption, Telecom
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CBI, corruption, Raja, Telecom
The CBI registered a disproportionate assets case against former Communications Minister A.Raja along with 16 others. Raja is already facing a CBI inquiry in the 2G spectrum allocation case.
It is interesting to note that many of the former Communication Ministers like Sukh Ram, Dayanidhi Maran had faced corruption cases. Of course, telecom is one of the most profitable sectors and bribery, corruption, favouritism are all part in the crony capitalism.
03 Sunday Apr 2011
Posted in 2G Scam Corruption, Corruption
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After a long wait and prodding by the Supreme Court, the CBI has filed the charge sheet in the 2G spectrum scam on 2nd April 2011 in the Special Court of Special Judge O.P.Saini formed for this purpose. The accused includes former communications Minister A.Raja, former Secretary, DOT Sidhartha Behura, former Personal Secretary to Minister R.K.Chandolia, Director of Swan Telecom (now Etisalat B) Shahid Usman Balwa, Managing Director of Unitech Limited Sanjay Chandra, Group MD Reliance Gautam Doshi, Senior Vice- President Reliance Hari Nair another Senior Vice-President Surendra Pipara and Director Swan Telecom Vinod Goenka.
They have been charged for cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy etc. under provisions of IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act. The loss to the Government is estimated about Rs. 30,984 crore. The charge sheet is about 80,000 pages, includes 654 documents and has mentioned 125 witnesses. It is stated that the documents clearly establishes the charges.
Will the case will reach its logical conclusion. Let us wait and see.
02 Saturday Apr 2011
Posted in 2G Scam Corruption
CBI has issued chargesheet to former Minister A.Raja and others in the 2G scam. Another charge sheet will be issued to further accused shortly. The details of the chargesheet with documents containing more than 8000 pages are yet to be released.
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