ED summons Dayanidhi Maran in Aircel-Maxis deal

March 15, 2012 16:50

The CBI alleged that Dayanidhi Maran who was Telecom Minister between 2004 and 2007 in the UPA-I government had deliberately delayed the licences to Aircel and showed undue favour to Malaysia-based Maxis. In return, investments were made by the company in Sun TV.

It was alleged that Maran "armtwisted' Aircel owner C. Sivasankaran to sell his stake to the Maxis group of Malaysia. Chennai-based Aircel was applying with the Department of Telecommunications for UAS licences from March 2004 onwards. Mr. Sivasankaran who was already quizzed by the CBI officials claimed that irrelevant issues were raised in order to delay the award of licences.

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