Hasan Ali Political Links: More Names Surfaced
posted on May 28, 2011 4:16PM
Hasan Ali multi-crore money laundering case is taking new turns with more names of political leaders surfacing each day. Kolkata based businessman Kashinath Tapuriah, associate and co-accused in the Hasan Ali multi-crore money laundering case, has in a series of statements made to Enforcement Directorate named several politicians who allegedly had close links with Hasan Ali.
According to sources, the politicians Tapuriah is believed to have named include arrested Commonwealth Games chief organizer Suresh Kalmadi, former minister Renuka Chaudhary, expelled Samajwadi MP Jaya Prada, Congress MP Subbirami Reddy, ex-MP A S Chaudhary and the late Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, who was the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
As per Kashinath's statement, Ali allegedly told him that Subbirami Reddy was his close friend. Tapuriah said he was introduced to A S Chaudhary by Delhi Congress leader Jagdish Tytler. Ali had a good rapport with former actor-turned-MP Jaya Prada, who Tapuriah claims to have seen in the company of Hasan Ali at a hotel in 1996. He also spoke about Ali's links with a Congress leader from AP currently associated in an airport project in Mumbai or New Delhi.