A CBI team is in Malaysia to hold talks with the authorities in that country about the agency's request seeking details about a company embroiled in 2G spectrum controversy during Dayanidhi Maran's tenure as Telecom Minister.
A CBI team is in Malaysia to hold talks with the authorities in that country about the agency's request seeking details about a company embroiled in 2G spectrum controversy during Dayanidhi Maran's tenure as Telecom Minister.
Official sources said a Letters Rogatory had been sent to Malaysia seeking details about telecom company Maxis which took over Chennai-based Aircel telecom company after which the spectrum was allocated to it.
The agency intended to know some financial transactions that had taken place from Maxis company besides recording the statement of an non-executive Director of the company who has been named in the FIR filed by CBI in October last year.
It has been alleged by former Aircel Chief C Sivasankaran that Maran had as the then Telecom Minister favoured Maxis group in the takeover of his company and that return investments were made by it through Astro network in Sun TV-owned by the Maran family.
Both Maran and Maxis group have denied any wrong doing and the Malaysian company had even said it was surprised over the CBI action despite all clarifications provided during the initial phase of the probe.
According to the sources, a CBI team was meeting Malaysian authorities, including its legal department, for early action on its plea.
The agency's probe was earlier confined to Malaysia and Mauritius in connection with routing of money in the takeover of Aircel by Malaysian giant Maxis but the money trail later CBI to other countries including the UK and Bermuda.
CBI filed a case against Maran, his brother Kalanithi, Chairman of Maxis Communication T Ananda Krishnan, senior executive of Astro All Asia Network and Maxis Ralph Marshall in connection with the controversial Aircel-Maxis deal, alleging the former Telecom Minister had received Rs547 crore as kickbacks from the Malaysian company.
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