IPL scam: Lalit Modi purchased a private Jet, yatch and several expensive cars with illegal funds

According to reports, Lalit Modi recently purchased a private jet, several expensive cars and a yatch with illegal, ill-gotten funds. The funds were routed through various sources abroad including from tax havens like Mauritius. Lalit Modi owns a Mercedes and a BMW, besides other expensive cars, according to income tax sources.

Meanwhile according to a report in the Times of India, IPL commissioner Lalit Modi’s role in connection with the purchase of heritage havelis in the protected Amer Palace zone has come under the scanner of the Rajasthan government.

The Rajasthan government is mulling action against both Modi and his wife Minal, who as directors of a company, were allegedly involved in the purchase of the heritage buildings or havelis..

An inquiry by the Jaipur divisional commissioner into the issue has confirmed that the protected havelis were purchased as private properties four years back. Amer Heritage City Construction Pvt Ltd, which later changed its name to Ananda Heritage Hotels, with Lalit Modi and his wife as directors, had purchased four government havelis. Bina Kak, state tourism minister said that she had got the inquiry report.

IPL Scam: Does Lalit Modi know about the IPL fake tickets, black marketing?

According to certain media reports, Lalit Modi and some of his cronies or others within the IPL core group may have inside knowledge about the black marketing of the IPL finals tickets. Tickets have also been duplicated, forged and faked on a large scale and fake tickets are being sold all over.

Are insiders within the IPL core team aware of these fake, forged and duplicated tickets. Why hasn’t the IPL management filed any police complaint against the forging of these tickets. Is it meant to hoodwink the tax man. Are some members printing the fake tickets themselves in collusion with some others? Only a detailed Crime Branch probe may reveal the truth. Or will it??

 

A report by Sanjay Jog in Business Standard says and we reproduce the entire report:

Troubles seem to be hitting the Indian Premier League (IPL) from all sides. Even as the investigating agencies look into the murky financial dealings in IPL, black marketers and touts are having a field day, selling tickets for the finals for Rs 3,000-Rs 2 lakh.

The black marketers have even started selling fake tickets in hotels, at railway stations and colonies near the stadium. The tickets for the finals, to be held on April 25 at the D Y Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, are officially priced at Rs 500, Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000.

Sources told Business Standard the black market was flourishing: “There has been a mad rush. A ticket of Rs 500 is now being sold at Rs 3,000-7,000. Similarly, a Rs 5,000 ticket is going for Rs 45,000-70,000 and Rs 10,000 tickets are being sold for as much as Rs 80,000-2 lakh.”

Even the complimentary tickets are being sold at as much as Rs 60,000-1.50 lakh. Police sources admitted they had received complaints about black marketing of tickets. However, no official complaint had so far been lodged.

Police sources also admitted, given that the priority was to ensure there was no untoward incident in the finals, they had not been able to pay much attention to the complaints. “The police is currently concentrating on the law-and-order situation,” admitted a source.

The situation has become so difficult that even politicians are unable to get tickets. A Congress legislator, who was willing to pay up to Rs 10 lakh for a few tickets, was not been able to get any. The legislator, on condition of anonymity, said: “The state government should step in to stop this illegal sale. Ideally, the sale of tickets would have been divided into online and over the counter in a 50:50 ratio. Genuine cricket lovers are simply barred from enjoying the game at the stadium.”

An Opposition legislator, who landed up with a fake ticket for the semi-finals between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore, said: “I paid Rs 20,000 for a Rs 10,000 ticket. But, when I reached the stadium, I was told the ticket was fake. I could not do much, as it would have only landed me in trouble.”

IPL Gate: Poorrna Patel, Praful Patel accessed insider information

 

 

By Flynn Remedios – futuristicmedianetwork.wordpress.com / iplgate.wordpress.com

 NCP politician and aviation minister Praful Patel’s daughter in charge of hospitality at the IPL was sent a confidential email from Lalit Modi’s office which was later on passed on to Shashi Tharoor. According to TV reports, Poorna Patel who was in charge of hospitality had no business to posses or receive that email. While Praful Patel has vehemently denied that the email was confidential and claims that the email was routine and ‘in public domain’, it is very obvious, say reports that the email was sent to apparently mislead Tharoor and his coterie. 

Poorna Patel was as her father claimed a very junior employee at the IPL and was working for pocket money. The question is why was a junior employee was sent a valuation document received directly from the IPL Commissioner’s office. IPL CEO Sundar Raman is alleged to have sent the email on instructions from Lalit Modi to Praful Patel’s daughter Poorna Patel. He later in the day asserted that he had no idea why Poorna Patel forwarded that email to her father’s office which in turn was forwarded to Shashi Tharoor.

What the IPL CEO forgot to answer was why in the first place did he as CEO send a financial document to a junior employee in the hospitality department.

 

IPL Gate: Lalit Modi meets Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, asks for support

 

By Flynn Remedios – futuristicmedianetwork.wordpress.com / iplgate.wordpress.com

IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi met Reliance Industries chairman and Mumbai Indians owner Mukesh Ambani today (22 April, 2010) and according to TV news reports sought his support and help. Mukesh Ambani is known to be close to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other senior Congress politicians, including the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The meeting took place in the backdrop of the first IPL-3 semi-final, against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, at the D.Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. The Mumbai Indians won by 35 runs and will meet the winner of Thursday’s semi-final between the Deccan Chargers and the Chennai Super Kings in the final on Sunday.

IPL Gate: BCCI will not attend IPL awards night: BCCI and Shashank Modi take on Lalit Modi

  

By Flynn Remedios – futuristicmedianetwork.wordpress.com/ipgate.wordpress.com 

News reports have suggested that senior BCCI officials including BCCI President Shashank Manohar may not attend the IPL Awards Night next week. This decision by the BCCI has also been communicated to other franchises, news reports have suggested.

Meanwhile Shashank Manohar claimed in a TV interview that there were documents including confidential and crucial bid papers which even senior BCCI officials have not seen or are not aware of.

 Meanwhile BCCI governing council member Mansur Ali Khan alias Tiger Pataudi has claimed in a TV interview that in introspection the entire governing body of the BCCI must take responsibility for the IPLgate and step down.