New Delhi: Smack in the middle of the national election, the telecom scam has flared up again for the DMK, whose top leaders are accused of orchestrating one of India's biggest swindles.
Party leaders Raja and M Kanimozhi have been charge-sheeted for money-laundering a 200-crore kickback by the Enforcement Directorate. So has Dayalu Ammal, 84, who is Kanimozhi's step-mother and the wife of DMK chief M Karunanidhi.
The new case against her will be read by the DMK as a stinging new consequence of its deepening estrangement from the Congress, with whom it refused to ally for the election. The Enforcement Directorate reports to the Finance Ministry, which is headed by P Chidambaram, a top Congress leader who is also from Tamil Nadu.
Sources say today's charges are serious enough for a CBI court to order the arrest of the DMK leaders involved. The party today repeated that what is being taken for a kickback was a legitimate loan that was re-paid.
In a sign that it accepted Dayalu Ammal's defense that she does not speak English and was not involved with the management of the channel, the CBI has not listed her as an accused in its case. (Read: Not aware of source of Rs 200 crore, says Dayalu Ammal)
Both Mr Raja and Kanimozhi were jailed on serious criminal charges before being granted bail. (1,800 questions are from CBI, not Heaven, so bring them on, says A Raja)
Party leaders Raja and M Kanimozhi have been charge-sheeted for money-laundering a 200-crore kickback by the Enforcement Directorate. So has Dayalu Ammal, 84, who is Kanimozhi's step-mother and the wife of DMK chief M Karunanidhi.
The new case against her will be read by the DMK as a stinging new consequence of its deepening estrangement from the Congress, with whom it refused to ally for the election. The Enforcement Directorate reports to the Finance Ministry, which is headed by P Chidambaram, a top Congress leader who is also from Tamil Nadu.
Sources say today's charges are serious enough for a CBI court to order the arrest of the DMK leaders involved. The party today repeated that what is being taken for a kickback was a legitimate loan that was re-paid.
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In a sign that it accepted Dayalu Ammal's defense that she does not speak English and was not involved with the management of the channel, the CBI has not listed her as an accused in its case. (Read: Not aware of source of Rs 200 crore, says Dayalu Ammal)
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Both Mr Raja and Kanimozhi were jailed on serious criminal charges before being granted bail. (1,800 questions are from CBI, not Heaven, so bring them on, says A Raja)
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