PTI
New Delhi, January 8
Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi, and four others were on Friday charged by the Enforcement Directorate in the special 2G court in connection with a money laundering case lodged in the Aircel-Maxis deal.
The ED, in its charge sheet filed before Special Judge O.P. Saini, named as accused the Maran brothers, Kalanithi Maran’s wife Kavery Maran and three others, including two companies.
The court has fixed the charge sheet for consideration on January 18, 2016 and asked the agency to place before it the entire set of documents relating to the case.
The ED had on April 1, 2015 attached the assets, estimated at Rs. 742.05 crore, held by Dayanidhi Maran, Kalanithi Maran and Ms. Kavery Maran in the case.
Earlier, the CBI in August 2014 had charged the Maran brothers, Malaysian business tycoon T. Ananda Krishnan, Malaysian national Augustus Ralph Marshall and four companies — Sun Direct TV, Maxis Communication Berhad, South Asia Entertainment Holding and Astro All Asia Network — in the case.
The CBI had earlier alleged in the court that Mr. Dayanidhi Maran had “pressured” and “forced” Chennai-based telecom promoter C. Sivasankaran to sell his stakes in Aircel and two subsidiary firms to Malaysian firm Maxis Group in 2006.
