Interesting for those CDs who hold corrupt MMS in high regard.

Further, apart from Telecom scandal. it is interesting to note that MMS is selling PSU in slices and then proceeds are wasted on "social programs to uplift poor and minorities" and thus bankrupting future Indian generations. MMS is a shameless fox and curse on India.



Raja courts censure, but why is PM unmoved?

J Gopikrishnan | New Delhi

When, on Friday, the Supreme Court refused to intervene in a Delhi High Court order that had found violations in the 2G spectrum allocation by Telecom Minister A Raja, it became clear that the time had come now — if not earlier — for the Prime Minister to act against his “honoured” colleague. The dubious allocation had resulted in a loss of more than one lakh crore rupees to the public exchequer.

Manmohan Singh, who often preaches ‘zero tolerance’ to corruption, has to take a final call. Even before the courts came into the picture, Raja’s decision had come under scanner of the Central Vigilance Commission. A CBI probe is currently on after the CVC found gross violations in the allocation.

The Supreme Court verdict by Justice B Sudershan Reddy and Justice SS Nijjar not only exposed Raja’s wrongdoings but also his attempt to make a mockery of the judicial process. Observers see a back door attempt to coerce the complainant into withdrawing litigation against the Telecom Ministry. There were two cases in the Delhi High Court challenging the spectrum allocation, and they hung like the sword of Damocles on the Telecom Minister.

One was a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Arvind Gupta challenging Raja’s dubious first-come-first-served policy in allotting spectrum/licences to telecom operators. The second case was filed by telecom operator STel against Raja’s order to reverse the cut-off date (last date) of application from October 1, 2007 to September 25, 2007, through a mere press note released on January 10, 2008.

The press release, which was issued at 2:45 pm, also asked the applicants to remit the fee for spectrum/licence on that day itself between 3:30 pm and 4:30 pm through demand draft. It is still a mystery how the companies arranged demand drafts of around Rs 1,500 crore within an hour. As a result of the sudden change in the cut-off date, STel, which had applied for all 22 circles, got licence for only six circles. It started operations in January this year in three circles — Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa — with eight lakh subscribers.

Raja apparently panicked after the CBI began investigation in October 2009 after the CVC ordered a probe. To his fortune, though, within two months Gupta withdrew the case at the last stage when the High Court was constrained to observe, “Spectrum was sold like cinema tickets”. During this period, STel also won its case in the High Court before a single bench headed by Justice GS Sistani.

Rejecting DoT’s appeal, the then Delhi High Court Chief Justice AP Shah also upheld the verdict favouring STel. In both benches of the high court that had heard the case, Raja presented a misleading affidavit claiming that he had received the Prime Minister’s concurrence in allotting spectrum, including the change in cut-off date. Shockingly, both affidavits which dragged the Prime Minister into the court proceedings were drafted and vetted by Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati, who personally appeared in most of the hearings of this crucial case to save Raja.

After The Pioneer’s expose of the false affidavit, the DoT deleted the passage claiming the Prime Minister’s concurrence in the Supreme Court appeal. Raja sensed further danger in the case when Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy impleaded in the matter three weeks ago. To prevent Swamy’s intervention, the country’s top legal brains advised Raja to persuade STel into withdrawing the case.

The Telecom Minister - through a junior DoT official - issued a two-line order to STel on Friday, March 6, after office hours on closure of services “due to security concern”. No show-cause was served. This was the first time the DoT issued a service discontinuation order without giving a show-cause notice.

According to highly placed sources, STel owner C Shivashankaran tried his best to counter Raja’s plans but failed. On March 7 and 8 (Saturday and Sunday) his attempts to contact the Prime Minister through Congress leaders and bureaucrats in PMO, were blocked.

On March 8, Shivasankaran decided to surrender before Raja. STel officials, who reached Raja’s residence for truce with company letter pads, were forced to sign the prepared compromise draft, which was then presented to the Supreme Court by Attorney General Vahanvati. Sadly for Raja, all the manoeuvring came to a naught, with the apex court refusing to provide him any relief.

STel is the only firm that wrote to the Prime Minister, offering a whopping figure of Rs 16,000 crore for a pan-India licence. But the Prime Minister, who had on November 2, 2007 ordered Raja to stop spectrum allocation, maintained silence on the letter. He continued with his silence even when the Telecom Minister issued licenses at a cheap price of Rs 1,500 crore, fixed back in 2001. The spectrum/licences were issued in 2008 at price fixed in 2001, when only four million subscribers existed. In 2008, the subscribers level had crossed 300 million.

The Equation is as follows:

Monies from underselling the licenses flow as follows:

1.Mr.Raja to Mr.Kalanithi Maran and ends up with Ms.Sonia Maino.

2.Mr.Raja to Ms.Kanimozhi and ends up with Mrs.Rajathi Karunanidhi Ammal(Second Wife of Mu Ka the CM of Tamil nadu).


But the Secular Media in India will not talk about these as the above said people are Secular and path breaking leaders.

While Dr.Subramanian Swamy who gets news about these and fights them in court at his own cost is called a Hindutva - No purpose CIA agent-Trouble Maker- JOKER.

That is India!.

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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.

Money and Indian politicians are intertwined.


Maran family and Sun channels

Mahajan and Reliance Infocom

but MMS is no politician...

BEIJING: A group firm of China's State Grid Corporation has received the USD 1.5-billion contract to construct a power plant for conglomerate
Vedanta Resources in India.

Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation has won the contract, according to a statement posted on the Chinese government's Assets Supervision and Administration Commission website today.

Shandong Electric Power would design, construct and operate 3x660 megawatts power project for Vedanta in Jharsuguda, located in Orissa.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/energy/power/Chinese-firm-gets-15-bn-contract-for-power-plant-in-India/articleshow/5755332.cms

Interesting part is that China restricts foreign companies from entering their market. Please do not take this as my criticism of China. In fact I believe that they are smartest people.

China Curbs Prompt Credit-Card Dispute, Kirk Says (Update1)

March 26 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration is weighing complaints from U.S. companies that China is violating trade rules by shutting them out of its $723 billion payment- processing market, Trade Representative Ron Kirk said today.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aO1wAOcrT3Bc

One more Crown jewel in feather of honest and clean PM.


Paltry sum of Rs. 380 crore bribe .

http://www.dailypioneer.com/251782/To-save-Cong-DMK-ties-officer-probing-Raja-scam-transferred.html


To save Cong-DMK ties, officer probing Raja scam transferred

J Gopikrishnan | New Delhi

Central Bureau of Investigation DIG Vineet Agarwal, the head of investigation into the controversial 2G spectrum allocation by Telecom Minister A Raja, has been packed off to his parent State cadre. A Maharashtra cadre officer, Agarwal was sent back on completion of his deputation tenure on March 31. This despite the fact that courts have regularly passed orders in favour of retaining the heads of investigation teams in sensitive cases like the fodder scam, Koda scam and others.

Incidentally, the Central Vigilance Commission — which is supervising the spectrum probe — has to date not even been officially communicated the decision taken by the Department of Personnel and Training, which comes under the Prime Minister.

Agarwal had become an eyesore for several key players in the spectrum scam after he unearthed clinching evidence to establish their complicity in the biggest scandal to hit the country in the recent past. Sources said Agarwal’s removal was part of a game plan to bury the truth in the spectrum scam.

Sources said CBI director Ashwani Kumar was summoned by the PMO in the last week of October 2009, soon after the CBI registered an FIR in the spectrum scam on the orders of the CVC. According to CBI sources, the director in the first meeting with the investigation team told the sleuths that the PMO had told him to ensure that “unnecessary embarrassment” was not created for the UPA Government in the course of inquiry. According to sources, the director was asked to consult a senior PMO official on “each and every step” of the investigation. Terming the spectrum case a “hot potato”, the director had told the investigation team to get his clearance before making any arrests in the case.

Within weeks of launching the probe, the CBI sleuths found gross irregularities in money flow into Swan Telecom, the major beneficiary in the spectrum scam. Along with the foreign investor Etisalat, Genex Exim (a small newly-created firm from Tamil Nadu) received Rs 380 crore worth of shares in Swan Telecom which, the CBI believes, was a kickback for the favouritism shown in the spectrum allocation.

This small firm was the front company for the Dubai-based conglomerate ETA Star Ascon, owned by the NRI tycoon Sayed Salahuddin, haling from Kilukarai in Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu.

After questioning Swan’s (now known as Etisalat DB India) Shahid Balwa, the CBI had decided to question Sayed Salahuddin and sought clearance from a very senior official in the PMO. The NRI tycoon was visiting New Delhi between January 7 and 9 in connection with the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebration and it was during his stay in the Capital that the CBI wanted to grill him.

But the agency sleuths were asked to stay away from Salahuddin till March 13, sources said, on the ground that he was the contractor for the new Legislative Secretariat complex, which was to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on March 13. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi was also to attend the function. Salahuddin is closely associated with the DMK-led Tamil Nadu Government and running a public insurance scheme through his Star Health Insurance. For the past four decades, most of the flyovers in Tamil Nadu were constructed by this NRI businessman. He was also the distributor for some films scripted by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi in the early 1970s.

The Genex Exim, which is termed an Indian investor by Swan, had transferred Rs 380 crore within 24 hours by routing the money through four destinations — Dubai, Mauritius, Chennai and Mumbai.

Agarwal was transferred from the CBI on March 31, a few days after the Prime Minister wrote to Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy that “it was premature to grant sanction to prosecute Raja as the CBI investigation is going on” in the spectrum scam.

Agarwal has been reportedly removed from the probe team because his line of investigation threatened to establish Raja’s direct links with the scam and create severe strain on the Congress-DMK ties.

On the directive of the CVC on October 15, 2009, the CBI took up the investigation in the spectrum scam on October 22 and raided the offices of the DoT and the beneficiary telecom companies. Since the investigation was proceeding under the supervision of the CVC, the CBI was expected to inform it of the case progress at regular intervals. But, according to sources, no such information has been filed by the CBI to the CVC to date, including the transfer of the probe team chief.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/252253/TAPPED-and-TRAPPED.html

TAPPED and TRAPPED

J Gopikrishnan | New Delhi

Govt taps PR honcho’s phone, gets clinching evidence against Raja

The cat is finally out of the bag. The CBI has acquired clinching evidence showing that a high-profile woman public relations lobbyist acted as powerbroker in the mutli-crore 2G spectrum scam and that she was in regular touch with Telecom Minister A Raja.

The investigating agency unearthed damning evidence of wheeling-dealing in the spectrum scam by authorised tapping of telephones of several persons, including Nira Radia, who runs several public relations and consultancy companies — like Vaishnavi Corporate Consultants, Noesis Strategic Consulting Services, Vitcom Consulting and Neucom Consulting.

All these companies are filled with retired bureaucrats, who ostensibly lobby with the Government on behalf of different companies. Radia is an NRI, who landed in India in early 2000 for some liaison work for aviation companies. Of the nine companies that benefited from the dubious spectrum allocation by Raja, the CBI found that four companies were “serviced” by Radia.

Highly-placed sources said the CBI was denied permission by top authorities to interrogate Radia even though the telephone intercepts clearly exposed her role in the scam, which cost an estimated Rs 1,00,000 crore to the exchequer.

A communication between the Income Tax Department and the CBI shows that nine phone lines were tapped by the I-T Department’s investigation wing. The first phase

of 120 days of tapping started on August 20, 2008, and the second phase of 180 days on May 11, 2009.

Sources in the CBI said that in addition to Radia’s, the telephone lines of several other influential businessmen, politicians and advertising professionals were tapped for uncovering the extent of lobbying in the scam.

Sources said that the first-phase conversation tapping, lasting 120 days, exposed the parking of ill-gotten money from the spectrum scam in the form of real estates holdings, company shares and derivates within the country and in tax havens like Mauritius.

Documents available with The Pioneer show that Central Bureau of Investigation DIG Vineet Agarwal had on November 16, 2009, sought call detail records of Nira Radia from Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) Milap Jain. “It has been reliably learnt that certain middlemen, including one Ms Nira Radia of M/s Noesis Consultancy, were actively involved in the above-mentioned (spectrum scam) criminal conspiracy,” Agarwal’s letter to Jain, seeking the detailed call records, stated.

On November 20, 2009, as per Jain’s instructions, Joint Director of Income Tax Ashish Abrol provided the details of conversation between Radia and key players in the spectrum scam, including A Raja.

“There are some direct conversations between Ms Radia and the Telecom Minister. In some other conservations, Ms Radia boasts of having helped some of the telecom operators in their efforts to obtain licences/spectrums. Ms Radia has also been in regular touch with Shri Chandolia,” confirmed Abrol to the CBI. RK Chandolia was Raja’s private secretary during the time of spectrum allocation and has since been elevated as an economic adviser in the Department of Telecommunication.

“On the basis of specific information received from CBDT, the telephone lines of Ms Nira Radia and some of her associates were put under observation after obtaining permission from the Home Secretary,” Abrol wrote to Agarwal in a letter, marked “Strictly confidential and top secret”.

“The intercept provides the conversation of the target and associates indicating laundering and structured payoffs, transactions and liaison for projects of telecom, petroleum and also the media,” the I-T Department communication to the CBI stated.

Radia’s companies are involved in consulting in telecom, power, aviation and infrastructure. These entities not only managed the media but, as per the recorded conversations, apparently tried to influence policy changes and decisions of various Government departments to suit the commercial requirements of their clients, confirmed the Income Tax Department’s investigation wing to the CBI after analysing the telephone conservations.

“From these conversations, it appears that Ms Nira Radia might have had some role with regards to the award of telecom licences. In a conversation, she guided a new telecom operator on the need to delay the inflow of funds from the overseas investor and not to give the impression to the Government that there has been any ‘windfall’ profit,” the letter added.

In the conversation details available with The Pioneer, Radia was talking about arranging huge money from abroad for Unitech Wireless, which is a major beneficiary in the spectrum scam.

According to CBI sources, Radia got information about the agency’s moves against her from her vast network in the South and North Blocks and left for London in February to avoid arrest for criminal conspiracy in the spectrum scam.

“The detailed telephone transcripts of Radia clearly show how our politicians and bureaucrats were hand in glove with the corporates in looting the public exchequer,” a top CBI official said.

Clearly, MMS and Kangress , to be in power bowed to most corrupt politician Karunanidhi and thus participated in loot of India.

Telecom Minister Raja played king, defied PM

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/telecom-minister-raja-played-king-defied-pm/114304-37-64.html?from=tn