Cbi May Grill Former Reliance Infocomm Executives

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CBI may grill former top Reliance Infocomm executives

Estimating a loss of over Rs 50 crore to the Government due to alleged re-routing of international phone calls as local ones by Reliance Infocomm, the CBI may question some of former top executives of the private telecom giant and convert the Prelimnary Enquiry into a regular case.

Investigations after registering the PE on September 15 by the Economic Offences wing of the agency's Chennai branch, CBI secured all files from Deprtament of Telecommunications (DoT) from which the agency claimed the loss to the exchequer could go beyond Rs 50 crore, agency sources said.

The agency, in its PE regietered against unnammed officials of Reliance and DoT, had alleged the Telecomm giant had manipulated Caller Line Identification (CLI) system for international calls and routed them as local calls.

The CBI, probing the case after the matter was referred to it by Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), is also likely to question some of the top executives of the Reliance group who were incharge of the Telcommunication section before the

division of property in Ambani family.

Anil Ambani got Reliance Infocomm as part of the settlement of the Reliance empire with his brother Mukesh in June who had headed the private telecom giant prior to the split.

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CBI registers case against Reliance Telecomm

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday registered a case against four former officials of Reliance Infocomm for allegedly permitting incoming international calls through illegal means.

All the accused - identified as Manoj Modi, Akhil Gupta, A. Shankar and Pankaj Panwar - were part of the telecom major when it was under Mukesh Ambani.

A Reliance Communications spokesperson said: ‘The reported criminal case registered by the CBI pertains to the alleged rerouting of international calls prior to the reorganisation of the Reliance group, at which point of time Reliance Infocomm was under the previous management.

‘The officials accused by the CBI are from the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) group, and have nothing to do with the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group.

‘Modi heads the retail business of RIL and Shankar takes care of the government relations for RIL in Delhi.’

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