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Much bigger than the A Raja-Kalaignar TV kickback is the Rs 700 crore that the Maran brothers got from Maxis.Ashish Khetan traces the money trail with Raman Kirpal
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IN CASES of corruption involving a nexus between public servants and private persons, investigating agencies always look for evidence of quid pro quo — the private player bribing the public servant, in cash or kind.
In January, the CBI traced out a money trail between real estate tycoon Shahid Usman Balwa and Kalaignar TV. After Balwa’s company Swan Telecom was granted precious 2G spectrum, he had transferred Rs 200 crore to the TV channel owned by Karunanidhi’s family. The agency thought it qualified as adequate evidence to nail Kanimozhi, Karunanidhi’s daughter and owner of 20 percent equity in the channel.
“It was not a genuine business transaction but in the nature of illegal gratification paid in lieu of the UASL (Unified Access Service Licences), valuable spectrum and other undue benefit given by accused public servants to Swan Telecom,” the CBI concluded in its supplementary chargesheet filed on 26 April.
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.
The man who spoke of corruption have to do a lot of explaining, now. (plz. refer to "WIKILEAKS: DMK M.P. Dayanidhi Maran spoke of corruption and predicted the downfall of DMK, in February, 2008!" @ http://prmadhura3.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-dmk-mp-dayanidhi-maran.html ).
And by threatening with legal notices, he is not going to suppress the truth.
Better, come out clean Mr. Maran, or CBI will.
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