Jersey to help in probe into India ‘bribes’

Monday 28th March 2011, 2:00PM BST.

Senator Ozouf (second from left) on the trip to India

INDIA has asked for Jersey’s help in an investigation into bribes allegedly paid to the country’s former telecom minister for granting 2G mobile phone licences.

The former minister Andimuthu Raja has been under investigation for some time, but the fact the Jersey authorities had been asked to help became public last week during proceedings in India’s Supreme Court.

And the news happened to coincide with a visit to Delhi by a senior delegation from the Island seeking to secure a tax information exchange agreement with the Indian government.

• See Monday’s JEP for the full report

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