CHENNAI: Firing yet another salvo, AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa on Friday called for Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and his family members "to be included in the 2G spectrum scam case as co-accused in the interest of justice."
Stating that MK had shown "remarkable consistency" right from his first term in indulging in "scientific corruption", she quoted extensively from the Sarkaria Commission report.
She drew parallels to an alleged transaction over a house by the CM's wife Rajathi Ammal in 1969 and flow of kickbacks from the spectrum deal into Kalaignar TV. She said Rajathi Ammal, then known as 'Dharma', bought a house in Raja Annamalaipuram and sold it to T K Kapali, her security guard. Kapali then sold the house to Ammal's mother Sivabhagyam, who bequeathed it to her daughter (Rajathi Ammal) and granddaughter Kanimozhi.
In her tax returns of 1973, Ammal claimed she had borrowed Rs 40,000 from Kapali to buy the house. In his returns, Kapali indicated that he borrowed Rs 20,000 as loan from Sivabhagyam to pay Rs 40,00 to Ammal. In short, the guard borrowed money from Sivabhagyam to lend money to her daughter Rajathi Ammal, Jayalalithaa said.
In a "similar exhibition of scientific corruption," A Raja sold spectrum to Swan Telecom, a company floated by Dynamix Balwa, a Mumbaibased real estate company, at a throwaway price of Rs 1,537 crore. He then sold 45 per cent of its holdings to the UAEbased Etisalat for Rs 4,200 crore.
"For facilitating this highly profitable sale, Balwa pays a kickback to Raja's lord and master, Karunanidhi," she said.
But the payment was not made directly to avoid the attention of tax authorities. Balwa transferred funds totalling Rs 209.25 crore from 11 different companies controlled by him to Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables, owned by Asif Balwa and Rajiv Agarwal.
"Kusegaon transferred Rs 206.25 crore to Cineyug Films, owned by the Balwas and Morani. Cineyug's balance sheet for 2009-10 showed an unsecured loan of Rs 206 crore was given to Kalaignar TV, in which MK's second wife Dayalu Ammal and daughter Kanimozhi, jointly hold 80 per cent stakes."
Stating that the parallels between transactions quoted from the Sarkaria report and the scam money dealings were striking, she quipped: "Confusing data, same convoluted accounting patterns and the devious and difficult to track money trails, obviously devised by the same brain."