Kanimozhi chargesheeted in 2G scam

New Delhi, Apr 25 (PTI) Chief Minister of the south
Indian state of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi
was on Monday was chargesheeted in the 2G spectrum scam in a
Delhi court by the CBI which accused her of entering into a
criminal conspiracy with prime accused former Telecom Minister
A Raja.
Kanimozhi (43) has also been charged under Prevention
of Corruption Act for taking illegal gratification through
Kalaignar TV -- a channel run by the ruling Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam (DMK) in Tamil Nadu -- in which the money related to
the 2G scam was routed.
However, the supplementary chargesheet does not name
the DMK supremo's wife Dayaluammal as an accused but mentioned
her as one of the witnesses in the case. Her name had
prominently figured during the investigations fuelling
speculation that she could be named as a co-accused.
"Kanimozhi actively pursued with the intermediaries
and DMK headquarters the matter regarding reappointment of
accused A Raja as Minister of Communications and Information
Technology in 2009, which clearly establishes the strong
association of Kanimozhi and A Raja in the officials/political
matters," the probe agency, in its 31-page supplememtary
chargesheet, said.
Besides Kanimozhi, four others---Kalaignar TV Managing
Director Sharad Kumar, Karim Morani, Director of Cineyug Media
and Entertainment Pvt Ltd, Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman
Balwa's cousin Asif Balwa and Rajeev Agarwal, who are
Directors of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd--- were
named in the chargesheet.
Special CBI Judge O P Saini, who took cognizance of
the probe report, issued summons against Kanimozhi, Sharad
Kumar and Morani for May 6.
"There is enough incriminating material on record to
proceed against the accused persons," the judge said.
The court issued production warrant against Balwa and
Agarwal for Tuesday as they are already in judicial custody
since their arrest on March 29.
The second chargesheet discusses the routing of over
Rs 200 crores illegal gratification from M/S Dynamix Realty to
Kalaignar TV Pvt Ltd through M/S Kusegaon Fruits and
Vegetables Pvt Ltd and Cineyug Films Pvt Ltd.
"The investigation has disclosed that there are
number of circumstances... which together conclusively
establish that the amount of Rs 200 crores paid by Dynamix
Realty to Kalaignar TV Pvt Ltd through M/S Kusegaon Fruits and
Vegetables Pvt Ltd and Cineyug Films Pvt Ltd, was not a
genuine business transction but in the nature of illegal
gratification paid in lieu of the UAS licenses, valuable
spectrum and other undue benefit given by acused public
servants to M/S Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd," the chargesheet said.

The agency in the first charge sheet filed on April 2
had said the money travelled through a "circuitous route"
through Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd, a DB group
company and Cineyug Films Pvt Ltd, to the Kalaignar TV in
which Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal, his daughter Kanimozhi
and Sharad Kumar have 60, 20 and 20 per cent shares
respectively.
In the second charge sheet, the CBI has discussed the
routing of gratification from various companies to the
Kalaignar TV by using graphs.
"Investigation has, therefore, revealed that M/s Dynamix
Realty, which is a partnership firm of DB Group of companies,
which also own Swan Telecom Private Ltd, paid Rs 200 crores as
illegal gratification to Kalaignar TV, which is also
controlled by the affiliates of DMK to which accused Raja
belongs and such fund transfer was facilitated by Karim
Morani, Sharad Kumar and Kanimozhi through their companies,"
the probe report said.
The name of Chennai-based company Green House Promoters
Pvt Ltd, whose director A M Sadhick Batcha, a close aide of
Raja who died under mysterious circumstances last month, also
figured in the supplementary charge sheet which primarily
deals with the routing of money.
Some of the family members of Raja and his wife M A
Parameshwari, who was the director (Legal) in the Green House
Promoters Pvt Ltd, were on the board of the company, which
acted as a link between various firms accused of having roles
in the routing of money to Kalaignar TV, it said.

The CBI has alleged that Kalaignar TV started refunding
Rs 200 crores illegal gratification back to the companies
promoted by various accused including Shahid Usman Balwa only
after Raja was quizzed by it on December 24 last year.
"Investigation has also revealed that when Raja was
contacted by CBI for his examination scheduled on December 24
last year, Kalaignar TV started refunding the amount of Rs 200
crores to Dynamix Realty, through Cineyug Films and Kusegaon
Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd.
"The substantial part of the amount was refunded by it
just before and after February 2 when Raja was arrested by the
CBI in this case," the CBI said.
The probe agency, which provided informations in tabular
forms related to financial transactions, said the companies
involved could not produce agreements to support their defence
that the money transfer was related to advancement of loans.
"Investigation has revealed that none of the companies,
firms involved in the entire transactions, purportedly claimed
as loans of amount of Rs 200 crores, had the main objective of
lending money. The companies could lend money only for the
purposes incidental of the main objects and lending money
could not be the main object of the company....Investigations
have disclosed none of these companies was holding status of
non-banking finance company," the charge sheet said.
Discussing the mode of money routing, it said that Swan
Telecom received additional share money of Rs 3,228 crores
from M/s Etisalat Mauritius Ltd and Rs 381 crores from Genex
Exim Ventures Pvt Ltd on December 17, 2008.
Dynamix Realty, a partnership firm of DB Realty Ltd, and
other group companies transferred Rs 209.25 crores to Kusegaon
Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd through banking channels, the
CBI said.
Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd took the plea
that the money was extended to it by Dynamix Realty and others
as unsecured loan, it said.
Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd further
transferred Rs 200 crores to Cineyug Films Ltd which in turn
routed it to Kalaignar TV in six installments.