2G: CBI to quiz Kanimozhi

Mar 11, 2011 |

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Chennai: DMK MP Kanimozhi, daughter of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, would be questioned by the CBI in Chennai on Friday, says TV reports.

This development comes just a day after the announcement by the CBI that Kanimozhi would be quizzed in connection with the ongoing probe into the 2G spectrum scam before March 31.

Earlier, CBI sources said Ms Kanimozhi and former communications minister A. Raja’s wife Ms Parameswari would be called for questioning by the agency before it files its charge-sheet by the March 31 deadline.

Ms Kanomozhi is likely to be questioned by the agency about the `200 crore loan which was reportedly given by Shahid Balwa’s Swan Telecom (now Etisalat-DB Telecom Private Ltd) to Kalaignar TV. Mr Balwa was arrested shortly after Mr Raja.

The Chennai-based channel is owned by Ms Kanimozhi and Mr Karunanidhi’s wife wife Dayalu Ammal. The agency had raided the office of Kalaignar TV on February 18. “The TV channel, however, maintained that the payment was meant to be an investment that was returned after a difference in evaluation over equity.

The agency wants to question Ms Kanimozi over this. She will also be confronted with certain documents which were recovered by the agency during searches, a CBI source said.

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