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CBI to give Radia tapes to 2G accused

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CIOL Bureau
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NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will by July 12 provide taped conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia to all those accused in the 2G spectrum scam case, the probe agency said in court on Thursday.

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The investigation agency, while responding to the plea by the accused, said before special CBI judge O.P Saini: "The accused have said the transcript of the conversations in the tape will help them in arguments..."

Tapes containing Radia's conversations with former communications and IT minister Raja and some industrialists and journalists have surfaced. The tapes were submitted as part of the evidence in a public suit over the 2G spectrum allotment row.

The accused in the spectrum scam, currently in Tihar Jail, include high profile names such as former telecom minister A. Raja, former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura, Shahid Balwa, Raja's aide R.K. Chandolia, Swan Telecom's Vinod Goenka, Unitech Wireless Sanjay Chandra and three ADAG executives - Gautam Doshi, Hari Nair and Surendra Pipara.

The CBI had also named Cineyug Films' Karim Morani as well as DMK chief M. Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar as co-conspirators after it traced an illegal money trail of Rs.214 crore in the scam.

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