New Delhi:
Days after his questioning, former telecom minister A Raja has said he cooperated with the CBI and plans to do so in the future as well.
"I gave full cooperation to the CBI for investigation, and will give full cooperation for the investigation. I cannot reveal what happened between the investigating agency and me during the course of interrogation," he said while speaking to reporters.
But sources have told NDTV that the CBI isn't convinced with the answers given by Raja.
According to CBI sources, Raja stuck to what he had told in the Supreme Court that he has followed his predecessor's policy. But when the CBI sleuths asked Raja why he advanced the closing dates for the bid, he was evasive. And this put doubts in the mind of the interrogators, the sources added.
The investigating agency will try to ascertain Raja's claims over the next two weeks and only after that will they go back to questioning him.
Raja had appeared before the CBI in response to a December 20 notice summoning him, days after his residences in New Delhi and in Tamil Nadu were searched by the agency.
On December 24, he was questioned for nine hours on the controversial advancing of dates for allocation of spectrum and alleged funding of some of the telecom companies by his kin. The next day, CBI sleuths also focused on the taped conversation of Raja with corporate lobbyist Niira Radia.
Raja was forced to resign on November 14 from the Union Cabinet in the wake of a CAG report which held that the spectrum allocation at undervalued prices resulted in a notional loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer.
"I gave full cooperation to the CBI for investigation, and will give full cooperation for the investigation. I cannot reveal what happened between the investigating agency and me during the course of interrogation," he said while speaking to reporters.
But sources have told NDTV that the CBI isn't convinced with the answers given by Raja.
According to CBI sources, Raja stuck to what he had told in the Supreme Court that he has followed his predecessor's policy. But when the CBI sleuths asked Raja why he advanced the closing dates for the bid, he was evasive. And this put doubts in the mind of the interrogators, the sources added.
The investigating agency will try to ascertain Raja's claims over the next two weeks and only after that will they go back to questioning him.
Raja had appeared before the CBI in response to a December 20 notice summoning him, days after his residences in New Delhi and in Tamil Nadu were searched by the agency.
On December 24, he was questioned for nine hours on the controversial advancing of dates for allocation of spectrum and alleged funding of some of the telecom companies by his kin. The next day, CBI sleuths also focused on the taped conversation of Raja with corporate lobbyist Niira Radia.
Raja was forced to resign on November 14 from the Union Cabinet in the wake of a CAG report which held that the spectrum allocation at undervalued prices resulted in a notional loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer.
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