The wife of an Indian minister has transferred Rs 2 billion-bribe to Mauritius

The investigation of the Indian authorities to Mauritius on bribes paid to a Minister for the lisenses granting to firms 2G mobile telephony seems to be working. It turns out that the former Minister of Telecommunications A. Raja was so placed bribes of around Rs 3 billion in the offshore accounts of his wife in Mauritius and Seychelles.

In any case, Times of India revealed this info on its website on Wednesday 2 March. A survey by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has helped to update this little detail, the Rs 3 billion is only part of the sum which the Minister has received “till time allocation” of licenses from some of these firms .

The CBI says the Times of India that they come at this conclusion after sending requests to a commission in Port-Louis in October 2009. At that time, Indian authorities were investigating whether to grant such licenses, especially the policy of "first come-first served" was not respected.

It turns out that the minister Raja was unjustly enriched that government has lost up to Rs 50 billion taxes. A special unit of the Treasury, the Enforcement Directorate, is preparing for its part, to send a letter to ten countries, knows as “tax havens@, to determine whether other jars of wine have not been concealed from them.

The investigation of this unit has already determined that some of these jars of wine were sent to India as foreign investment. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of India has told that at least 63 people were interviewed in this matter, namely a member of Lok Sabha, the owners of mobile phone companies and officials.

Minister Raja was first elected in 1996 and worked as minister from 1999 to 2003 in the State of Uttar Pradesh. In 2007 he was appointed minister of telecommunications, but was forced to resign in November 2010 when the scandal broke.

This is one of the biggest corruption scandals of the Great Peninsula, especially the mobile telephony market in this country is booming. Now it has 500 million subscribers. India is also embroiled in another corruption case relating to the infrastructure construction of Commonwealth Games and where the pots of wine found their way to Port Louis.