Aircel-Maxis Deal : ED Attaches Dayanidhi Maran’s Properties Worth Rs.742

1 April, New Delhi

Enforcement Directorate has attached DMK leader and former Telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran’s properties worth about Rs 742 crore in the controversial Aircel-Maxis deal.

The agency had registered a case against the Maran brothers under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

Earlier, Dayanidhi Maran was interrogated over 2-3 days at ED’s Delhi office in the first week of December last year.

According to CBI, Dayanidhi Maran, as Union Telecom Minister, misused his office to engineer the sale of telecom Aircel to Malaysia’s Maxis Group in 2006.

A criminal case that accuses Mr Maran of corruption and conspiracy alleges that in exchange, Maxis paid illegal gratification worth more than Rs 700 crores, a part of which was allegedly invested in a media company that is part of the Sun Group, owned by Maran’s brother, Kalanithi.

A statement by the Enforcement Directorate said, the money has been utilized by the companies in their business or investments. Mr Maran and Maxis have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.