A Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI] witness told a Delhi court on Friday that an examination of documents had led to a conclusion that Swan Telecom Pvt. Ltd, an accused in the 2G spectrum allocation case, was an 'associate company' of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group [RADAG].
Henry Richard, the registrar of companies, told the court that he had prepared a detailed report subsequent to a letter received from the CBI to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, in which the agency had requested him to examine certain documents seized by them during the probe.
'I examined all the above mentioned documents to come to a conclusion that Swan Telecom [P] Limited, which had applied for Unified Access Services Licence, was an associate company of Reliance Telecom Limited/Reliance Communication Limited and an ADA Group Company,' Richard told the special CBI judge O P Saini.
His deposition assumes importance as the CBI, in its charge-sheet filed on 2 April last year, had alleged that Reliance Telecom Ltd used Swan Telecom, an ineligible firm, as its front company to get licenses and the costly radio waves.
The charge-sheet has also named the group MD of RADAG Gautam Doshi, the group president Surender Pipara and its senior vice president Hari Nair, along with Reliance Telecom Ltd, as accused in the case for allegedly entering into a criminal conspiracy to cheat the government by getting licenses in an illegal manner.
However, the company has denied all the allegations against it and its three officials. Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka are also accused in the case.
In his testimony, Richard said that he had visited the CBI headquarters in Delhi and had examined the documents made available to him and thereafter prepared a report based on those documents.
Henry Richard, the registrar of companies, told the court that he had prepared a detailed report subsequent to a letter received from the CBI to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, in which the agency had requested him to examine certain documents seized by them during the probe.
'I examined all the above mentioned documents to come to a conclusion that Swan Telecom [P] Limited, which had applied for Unified Access Services Licence, was an associate company of Reliance Telecom Limited/Reliance Communication Limited and an ADA Group Company,' Richard told the special CBI judge O P Saini.
His deposition assumes importance as the CBI, in its charge-sheet filed on 2 April last year, had alleged that Reliance Telecom Ltd used Swan Telecom, an ineligible firm, as its front company to get licenses and the costly radio waves.
The charge-sheet has also named the group MD of RADAG Gautam Doshi, the group president Surender Pipara and its senior vice president Hari Nair, along with Reliance Telecom Ltd, as accused in the case for allegedly entering into a criminal conspiracy to cheat the government by getting licenses in an illegal manner.
However, the company has denied all the allegations against it and its three officials. Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka are also accused in the case.
In his testimony, Richard said that he had visited the CBI headquarters in Delhi and had examined the documents made available to him and thereafter prepared a report based on those documents.