Raja caught by CBI in 2G spectrum victimize: Previous telecommunication Minister, A Raja was caught from the CBI in the case of 2G spectrum on Wednesday. With Raja, previous telecommunication repository Siddartha Behura and former personal secretary Raja, RK Chandolia was also arrested by the CBI.
Earlier today, the Raja was interrogated by the CBI for the fourth time. According to sources, CBI has questioned the role of some of his relatives in a few companies emanation of some telecommunications parties as well the flow of funds
Following this Tuesday, the CBI has interrogated Raja brother and a close collaborator.
Raja was strained to give up on Nov fourteen finish year in the rouse of the GAO report, which got that the allocation of spectrum prices undervalued led to a theoretical loss of 1.76 crore rupees lakh to the exchequer state.
Raja got the portfolio of telecommunications on May 18, 2007 and was reelected as an appendage of the fifteenth Lok Sabha and continued as minister of telecommunications May 31, 2009, the month of November 14, 2010, before he resigned.
The arrests are eight days before the IWC was to file a progress report to the Supreme Court on its progress in its investigation of the scam 2G.
Incidentally, Congress president Sonia Gandhi met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Raja party leader M Karunanidhi in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Raja arrived at the headquarters of the CBI, on Wednesday morning, a day after his brother AK Perumal was interrogated by the CBI on allegations of funding for some agencies first held by telecommunications companies that had been allocated spectrum in October 2007 to January 2008, official sources.
Raja, his former personal secretary and former secretary RK Chandolia telecommunications Siddartha Behura were caught for allegedly misusing their official place and manipulation of tender procedures for the benefit of certain telecommunications companies to obtain the spectrum.
The arrest of 47 years, Raja, who was questioned four times by the agency, is more than two months after being forced to resign following the controversy of the spectrum.
Raja, who was interviewed earlier on December twenty-four and twenty-five last yr and Jan 31, was summoned to the CBI office this morning and questioned before being arrested, the source said.
DMK MP was confronted with some questions and paperses cured from the computers seized during raids conducted by the agency earlier investigation on its premises, the sources said.
