Aircel, Ananda and Dr M: A sordid tale of coercion, corruption and thuggery

For two years, Dayanidhi Maran had delayed the issue of licences that would allow Mr Sivashankaran to continue to operate his company successfully. Mr Sivashankaran who had been running Aircel since 1994, was forced to sell his company to a company from Malaysia with no presence in India, Maxis. Mr Sivashankaran also had to bear the indignity of having Ralph Marshall, Ananda Krishnan’s factotum, informing him that Maran had cleared the sale.

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