2g Money Trail

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today rejected the demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to look into the Rafale jet deal, saying it is unlike the 2G Spectrum or Bofors issues where aspects like the money trail surfaced.

The CBI has started a probe into the hawala transactions allegedly linked to former Telecom Minister A Raja with the belief that a possible money trail could be unearthed in the spectrum allocation scam it was probing.

Former telecom minister A Raja is going to spend more time in CBI custody as the investigating agency on Monday got his custody for another three days.The CBI will also question Swan Telecom's Shahid Balwa for another four days.The agency told the court that both are highly influential persons and there's every possibility that they will tamper wit...

In Tamil Nadu, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa claims to have established how a kickback of Rs 200 crore was paid to the DMK in return for favours delivered by DMK leader A Raja when he was Telecom Minister.  Here's the full text of her statement: Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister M Karunanidhi deserves to be complimented for one thing at least. When it c...

The investigation into the 2G scam seems to be snaking its way to the front door of the DMK. The CBI is connecting the dots between former Telecom Minister A Raja and the companies he allegedly colluded with; the dotted line seems to suggest that the kickbacks paid to Mr Raja were routed into a TV channel owned by the first family of the DMK. The c...

Sleuths probing the 2G spectrum allocation are now concentrating on the database of the elite Financial Intelligence Unit and Income Tax department to decipher the money trail in the scam.Sources said the CBI has received some exclusive and critical tax and income related details from the I-T department regarding payments made by various entities w...

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today rejected the demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to look into the Rafale jet deal, saying it is unlike the 2G Spectrum or Bofors issues where aspects like the money trail surfaced.

The CBI has started a probe into the hawala transactions allegedly linked to former Telecom Minister A Raja with the belief that a possible money trail could be unearthed in the spectrum allocation scam it was probing.

Former telecom minister A Raja is going to spend more time in CBI custody as the investigating agency on Monday got his custody for another three days.The CBI will also question Swan Telecom's Shahid Balwa for another four days.The agency told the court that both are highly influential persons and there's every possibility that they will tamper wit...

In Tamil Nadu, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa claims to have established how a kickback of Rs 200 crore was paid to the DMK in return for favours delivered by DMK leader A Raja when he was Telecom Minister.  Here's the full text of her statement: Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister M Karunanidhi deserves to be complimented for one thing at least. When it c...

The investigation into the 2G scam seems to be snaking its way to the front door of the DMK. The CBI is connecting the dots between former Telecom Minister A Raja and the companies he allegedly colluded with; the dotted line seems to suggest that the kickbacks paid to Mr Raja were routed into a TV channel owned by the first family of the DMK. The c...

Sleuths probing the 2G spectrum allocation are now concentrating on the database of the elite Financial Intelligence Unit and Income Tax department to decipher the money trail in the scam.Sources said the CBI has received some exclusive and critical tax and income related details from the I-T department regarding payments made by various entities w...