Play ‘nice’ with Naidu, get everything: AirAsia execs
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 IST
While the allegations have been denied by Air Asia, the voices on the audiotape could not be independently verified.
Vijayawada: In what could embarrass TD supremo and AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his trusted aide and former civil aviation minister P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, top executives of AirAsia, the Malaysia-based international airline, had allegedly discussed that if they play nice with Mr Naidu they “can get everything”.
The alleged conversation is contained in an audiotape purportedly between Air Asia Group chief executive officer Tony Fernandes and airline’s India CEO Mittu Chandilya on getting international route licences. The tape is said to be in possession of the CBI which had booked Mr Fernandes recently in a case of alleged bribery.
In the FIR, the CBI has alleged that Mr Fernandes and others violated FDI norms and paid bribes to unknown civil aviation ministry officials and others in an attempt to get an international operations licence for AirAsia India Limited (AAIL) during 2015-16 when Mr Raju was civil aviation minister.
While the allegations have been denied by Air Asia, the voices on the audiotape could not be independently verified.
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