CBI may grill former top Reliance Infocomm executives

NEW DELHI: Estimating a loss of over Rs 50 crore to the Government due to alleged re-routing of international phone calls as local ones by Reliance Infocomm, the CBI may question some of former top executives of the private telecom giant and convert the Prelimnary Enquiry into a regular case.

Investigations after registering the PE on September 15 by the Economic Offences wing of the agency's Chennai branch, CBI secured all files from Deprtament of Telecommunications (DoT) from which the agency claimed the loss to the exchequer could go beyond Rs 50 crore, agency sources said.

The agency, in its PE regietered against unnammed officials of Reliance and DoT, had alleged the Telecomm giant had manipulated Caller Line Identification (CLI) system for international calls and routed them as local calls.

The CBI, probing the case after the matter was referred to it by Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), is also likely to question some of the top executives of the Reliance group who were incharge of the Telcommunication section before the
division of property in Ambani family.

 Anil Ambani got Reliance Infocomm as part of the settlement of the Reliance empire with his brother Mukesh in June who had headed the private telecom giant prior to the split.