CBI gets a few leads, to question Nira Radia soon

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to question corporate lobbyist Nira Radia soon.

Sources said important leads have emerged from the documents seized from the public relations (PR) consultant’s home and offices following a series of raids at her office and residences last week.

“After the raids, her questioning becomes important for us. We need to confront her as she holds the key in the entire money trail of the spectrum allocation. Her telephonic conversations with many telecom players have further confirmed her involvement. She is going to be thoroughly interrogated very soon,” said a senior CBI official who is involved in the investigation.

The CBI had also searched the home of former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chief Pradip Baijal, who, after retiring from the Indian Administrative Service, began working with Radia’s company.

The Enforcement Directorate has already grilled Radia about her role in the spectrum allocation.

The CBI had searched the homes and offices of former telecom minister A Raja and his associates, and claim they have recovered a huge quantity of documents
pertaining to the spectrum allocation.

Besides questioning Radia, the CBI is in the process of sending an official request to the Malaysian government to get further details of the money trail.

The agency suspects that Raja and his associates have sent out huge amounts of money earned from the 2G spectrum scam to Malaysia through hawala (money smuggling) channel.