New Delhi: Chairman of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee Murli Manohar Joshi has refuted allegations that he had put pressure on the CAG's office over the 2G report. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, he also questioned the credibility of the lead CAG auditor RP Singh who alleged that he was forced to accept the Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss figure. "The credibility of RP Singh itself is a suspect. If RP Singh...
08:40 PM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has sparked a controversy as he tried to draw a link between Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Murli Manohan Joshi and CAG Vinod Rai over the 2G final report. Indirectly blaming PAC Chiarman for the 2G report mess, he said that the CAG must answer the need for Murli Manohar Joshi to call CAG office before the report was put up to the...
12:10 PM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: Did the 2G scam cost the country Rs 1.76 lakh crore or was that figure inflated? RP Singh, the lead auditor of the CAG who investigated the scam, on Monday told the Joint Parlimentary Committee that he was forced into signing on the inflated loss amount. CNN-IBN has accesed letters which prove that RP Singh was indeed under preassure. Internal notes show RP Singh may have been arm...
06:13 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Monday said it will examine the Comptroller Auditor General over the Rs 2645 crore versus 1.76 lakh crore figure in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. They also added that the Finance secretary will also be examined in the case. Against the backdrop of dispute over the figure in the 2G spectrum allocation, CAG Vinod Rai on Sunday had offered to appear before...
02:15 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Even as stormy scenes were expected at Monday's meeting of the Publi Accounts Committee (PAC), the meeting on CAG losses has been cancelled after Congress members created a ruckus. The PAC was supposed to question RP Singh, one of the auditors of the CAG's 2G report. However, Congress MPs objected to the presence of CAG Vinod Rai during R P Singh's deposition. NDA members opposed this contention and...
12:42 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, looking into the 2G spectrum allocation case, has summoned a key author of the CAG report on the 2G scam. Auditor RP Singh, who had disagreed with the loss estimate of Rs 1.76 lakh crore, has been summoned to court on Monday. Singh earlier had dissented with the manner in which the 2G allocation was audited. Sources say he will be asked whether...
07:26 AM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of dispute over the figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss in 2G spectrum allocation, CAG Vinod Rai has offered to appear before the JPC looking into the 2G scam once again. Rai recently wrote to JPC offering to make himself along with his officials 'available' whenever their 'assistance' is sought. Rai, along with other officials of the Comptroller and Auditor General, had appeared before...
11:53 AM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: A day after CNN-IBN exposed the letters exchanged between two senior Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) officers, deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and RP Singh, in the CAG office on the issue of the 2G loss figures of a whopping Rs 1,76,000 crores. The Congress is now using it to sharpen its attack against the CAG . RP Singh, the auditor who put his signatures on the CAG report in...
09:47 PM, Oct 29, 2011
New Delhi: More proof of the split in the CAG office has surfaced over the calculation of 2G losses. CNN-IBN has copies of top secret notes exchanged between Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and DG (Audit) RP Singh which shows that Singh was being coerced into toeing a line that Gupta and CAG Vinod Rai had already worked out. A letter written by Gupta accused Singh of not auditing the 2G...
06:04 PM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: Fireworks are expected at the Public Accounts committee (PAC) meet on Monday with the Opposition set to tear into the government on the finance ministry's 2G note, while the Congress will try to rebut the CAG's alleged inflated losses in the spectrum allocation. PAC has decided to call Deputy CAG RP Singh to depose as witness. CAG Vinod Rai and Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta will depose to explain...
01:09 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: In more embarrassment for the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in the 2G probe, CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of a letter written by lead auditor RP Singh, questioning not just the Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss estimate, but the entire CAG investigation. Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai has been toasted by the nation for exposing the biggest scam in the country. His 2G probe became the...
11:00 PM, Oct 04, 2011
New Delhi: In what could be more embarrassing for the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in the 2G spectrum scam probe, CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of a letter written by RP Singh, lead auditor in CAG's 2G probe, questioning the entire investigation. In the letter RP Singh says, "We are not on strong grounds in the arguments made." Singh also wrote in the letter that however since Headquarters have...
06:04 PM, Oct 04, 2011
New Delhi: The magnitude of the 2G scam which got defined by the CAG's assertion of a presumptive loss of Rs 1,76,000 crore is now under threat. Documents accessed by network 18 show that the CAG overruled its own auditor's figure of 2,600 crores, hiking the estimated loss from 2G spectrum sale. The documents suggest that Director General Audit RP Singh calculated the issue of Unified Access Licences and allotment...
09:20 PM, Sep 28, 2011
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