Charge sheet against the two under the prevention of money laundering act will be filed in the next 15 days.
The strained ties between the Congress and the DMK will worsen further once the Enforcement Directorate (ED) files its charge sheet in the 2G investigations.
For, it might send DMK chief M Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi and former telecom minister A Raja back to jail. Top sources in the finance ministry that oversees the ED say the charge sheet under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) will be filed in the next 15 days.
The fresh charge sheet means Kanimozhi, who has already spent more than six months in Delhi’s Tihar jail, might be forced to serve another jail term. A finance ministry official said the charge sheet is ready and a legal clearance is expected in a fortnight.
Section 4 of the PMLA says punishment under the act is rigorous imprisonment of not less than three years and it can go up to seven years along with a fine of up to Rs5 lakh.
The ED has found evidence that money was laundered to route the bribe money while allocating spectrum during A Raja’s tenure as telecom minister.
Besides Raja and Kanimozhi, the ED is investigating the roles of Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa’s cousin Asif Balwa, director of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd Rajeev Agarwal and Karim Murani of Cineyug Films (Pvt) Ltd under the PMLA.
Though the ED has not attached properties of Kanimozhi so far, it has attached properties of DB Realty and others worth nearly Rs223 crore by terming them “proceeds of crime”.
“The said loan of Rs209 crore to Kalaignar TV was deposited into their accounts through a circuitous route from Swan Telecom, one of the beneficiaries in the 2G spectrum allocation,” an officer said. Kanimozhi and her mother jointly held majority(80%) stakes in Kalaignar TV.
The CBI has already made it clear in its chargesheet that there were a number of circumstances which together conclusively “establish that the amount of Rs200 crore paid by Dynamix Realty to Kalaignar TV through Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd and Cineyug Films Pvt Ltd was not a genuine business transaction but was in the nature of illegal gratification paid in lieu of the Unified Access Service [UAS] Licences, valuable spectrum and other undue benefit given by accused public servants to Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd”.
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