Former telecom minister A Raja constantly misled PM: CBI
25 Jul 2012
The CBI yesterday told a parliamentary panel that A Raja constantly misled prime minister Manmohan Singh on the 2G license case and added it had so far come across nothing incriminating on part of home minister P Chidambaram on the issue.
Appearing before the Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the 2G case, top CBI officials led by probe agency chief A P Singh yesterday briefed the panel on the progress in the investigation.
The CBI is learnt to have told the panel that as per its investigations so far, the then telecom minister Raja, constantly misled the prime minister on the issue of allocation of 2G spectrum to telecom operators.
The probe agency added that so far it had not found any criminality in the role of Chidambaram, the then finance minister, on the issue of 2G radiowaves allocation.
It is understood that the CBI has also found nothing incriminating against Chidambaram in connection with the Aircel-Maxis deal.
Regarding infusion of foreign equity in telecom firms, the CBI is learnt to have told the panel that it found that companies involved in the 2G case were not involved in siphoning money.
