Raja's brother, associate quizzed by CBI

New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) After questioning former
Indian telecom minister A Raja, the Indian premier
investigative agency, CBI on Tuesday quizzed his brother
and a close associate in connection with the Rs 22,000 crore
2G spectrum scam.
Official sources said Raja's brother - A Kaliya
Perumal was questioned for over seven hours at the agency's
headquarters here.
They said a close associate of Raja was also
questioned.
Sources said the agency is in the process of
questioning everyone whose premises were searched by it in
connection with its ongoing probe into the scam.
Though officials were tight-lipped about the line of
questioning, sources said, Perumal was questioned on certain
financial transactions and his dealings with certain firms.
Interestingly, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
sleuths, who had on Monday questioned Raja for the third time,
had quizzed him about the role of some of his kin in a few
offshoot companies of these telecom firms besides the flow of
funds.
Raja was forced to resign on November 14 last year in
the wake of the CAG report which held that the spectrum
allocation at undervalued prices resulted in a notional loss
of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the state exchequer.
Raja got the telecom portfolio on May 18, 2007 and was
re-elected as a Member of the 15th Lok Sabha and continued
as Telecom Minister from May 31, 2009, till November 14, 2010
before he tendered his resignation.
The Supreme Court has asked CBI and Enforcement
Directorate to submit status reports on their investigations
into the 2G spectrum case to it by February 10 when the case
will come up for further hearing.
In its FIR, CBI mentioned the loss as Rs 22,000 crore
based on CVC findings which had referred the case to it.