The case relates to FIPB approval of Global Communication Services Holdings Limited, a 100 percent subsidiary of Maxis based in Mauritius, in 2006 when Chidambaram was the Minister of Finance of the Union.
A special court has issued a new summons here to the Malaysian telecom giant Maxis and his former director of Augustus Ralph Marshall at the request of the CBI in connection with FIPB approval of his subsidiary during the term of finance of the former finance minister P Chidambaram for the takeover of Aircel in 2006, said civil servants.
The agency also asked for the issue of a summons from the Malaysian company Astro All Asia Network in connection with the case, which was also deleted by the special court, they said.
The CBI sought three months from the court to serve the summons in Malaysia, they said.
The probe agency had submitted its first tax state against former telecomminister Dayanidhi Maran and some others on 29 August 2014, but they were fired by a special court on 2 February 2017. The dismissal was by the CBI in the Delhi High Court through a revisional network.
The agency filed another charge on July 19, 2018, against Chidambaram and others, who is still in front of the special court. Chidambaram has not abandoned giving public comments on the issue.
“CBI has already submitted a cost state in the Aircel-Maxis case. ED has now filed a complaint in the same case. If and when the summons is issued by the honorable court, the cases will be disputed. I will not make any other public comments,” he had said on ‘X’ in 2018.
In another message on ‘X’ in 2018, when the content of the CBI taxing sheet was reported in the media, he had said: “It is the FIPB that decides whether a proposal falls within the competence of the FIPB FIPB.
The case relates to FIPB approval of Global Communication Services Holdings Limited, a 100 percent subsidiary of Maxis based in Mauritius, in 2006 when Chidambaram was the Minister of Finance of the Union.
The company had moved the proposal to improve its direct or indirect share of foreign shareholders from 26 percent to 73.99 percent in the shares in Aircel LTD for $ 800 million (£ 3,560 crore).
Global communication continued with the acquisition of 73.99 percent stock share in Aircel Limited and an economic importance of 99.3 percent in the company, the CBI said.
The agency has claimed that Chidambaram and the accused officials of the FIPB had approved the proposal by showing the actual inflow of BDI into Indian rupees at £ 180 crore, although the proposal was actually at an amount of £ 3,560 crores ($ 800 million).
It was done to keep the proposal under the authority of Chidambaram, because, if the then Minister of Finance, he had the powers to approve total investments of a maximum of £ 600 crore, the CBI claimed.
It said that proposals over £ 600 crore require the approval of the Cabinet Committee for Economic Affairs (CCEA).
The agency has claimed that Chidambaram and his son Karti P Chidambaram, now have received a Lokha MP, Quid Pro Quo through companies related to the latest – Chess Management Services Private Limited and Advantage Strategic Consulting Private Limited – of the Associate Company In Navigation Management and Management of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of the Provision of Maxis. During January 29, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2012.
A bribery of RS 26 Lakh and £ 87 Lakh was taken by the two companies, the agency claimed.
Published on September 21, 2025
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