Chandy is Innocent, Ambassador, Daniel
played dirty Tricks.
Kuwait city -- The former Ambassador and School Secretary
Daniel created all problems, accused a section of Kuwait Malayalis.
Chandy is innocent, he is only asked to give one year guarantee
for a transaction. Daniel and Chandy had business rivalry and
ego clashes which resulted in the Indian School controversy,
it is alleged. The accused can appeal in Kuwait higher courts
before reaching the higher authority, they added. After one year,
Chandy can take back the fined amount.
The transaction involved the selling of a school building
to the Indian school, which the current management felt was very
high and complained to the higher authorities. The new school
management is as dangerous as the previous one and its secretary
is playing all dirty politics to malign Chandy's image, they
alleged. The verdict is not from a Supreme Court of Kuwait but
from a lower court, he added. The Ambassador was recalled after
three years and three months, they claimed. However, our diplomatic
sources revealed that the ambassador was recalled for trying
to recover the Indian School fund from the culprits. Now a new
Indian Ambassador and Indian Embassy say they are not involved
in any school matters. Watch this space for details
Indian School
pays Advocates Fee of KD 150,000? Watch this space.
Why a former Indian
Ambassador in Kuwait was recalled?
It is learned from diplomatic
sources that a former Indian Ambassador to Kuwait, who tried
to recover part of the School fund from the accused was called
back under the influence of a senior officer in the Ministry
of External Affairs. The same diplomat has been playing a dubious
role in Indian school matters. His latest heroic action was to
silence the Indian Ambassador in Oman who was opposed to giving
favours to private businessman.. It is learned that the senior
MEA bureaucrat who has recently got a promotion was instrumental
in recalling the Kuwait Ambassador Prabhu Dayal. Like the former
Indian Ambassador in Kuwait, the MEA senior officials wanted
to recall the Indian Ambassador in Muscat too..(keralamonitor.com)Watch
this space.
Covert
Campaign by School lobby to oust Indian Diplomat in Muscat
Remove Gulf Correspondent
who exposed Indian Schools Scandal..
The Asianet top brass joined hands
with businessmen and community leaders with vested interest in
school scandal to sack Asianet Correspondent. An Asianet Franchise
was given to a party who started their assignment with fraud
and manipulation -forging the Asianet letterhead and presenting
it to the Ministry of Information officials to obtain permission
in the name of a non existing company. -- Watch this space.
Professional Hijacking
of Media Empire
A majority of the six million Indians in west
Asia originate from Kerala, the southern Indian State, which
has Malayalam as its main language. Sometimes back the network
hired a new CEO in journalist Mohan Nair, corporate editor of
the Economic Times. Asianet owner Raji Menon who bought out his
nephew Sashi Menon's stake in the channel in a dubious manner
has been trying to focus on "professionalism" by inducting
managers working in other professions. Even though Mr.K.P.Mohanan's
involvement in the Kuwait Indian school scandal was well known,
Raji Menon has been keeping him as the high profile journalist
for Asianet. Is there any reason to keep such "professionals"
in high positions? More
Story of Kuwait Indian
School Fund Scandal Asianet and Gulf Keralites
Kuwait City -- Gulf Keralites
have been a major chunk of the overseas viewers of Asianet Channel.
The first private television channel in Kerala,
Asianet launched its second channel targeting the non-resident
Keralite (NRK) community in the Middle East, Australia and parts
of Europe. Asianet Global focuses more on news, current affairs,
talk shows and movies basically meant for expatriate Keralites.
All ratings used to show that Asianet was Kerala's premier channel
as there was no other visual platform for Malayalis around the
globe to present their views.More
Indian politicians intervene
to cover up Indian School Controversy
Details of the Kuwait
School fraud
Mass petition campaign for Asianet
Editor K.P.Mohan's extradition to Kuwait
K.P Mohanan had invested about Rs. 15 crores
in Asianet, the leading Malayalam TV channel, and by virtue of
which he became its Managing Editor. Mohanan is wielding his
political influence at the Central level, especially through
Union Minister of State for Urban Development, O. Rajagopal,
to avoid extradition and imprisonment at Kuwait. The tacit understanding
is said to be wider coverage through Asianet for BJP/RSS. Evidently,
undue news coverage by Asianet to Sangh Parivar leaders and events
tend to support these reports. Full Report
Indian President, Kerala Chief Minister
urged to Extradite K.P.Mohan, other Culprits involved in Indian
School Kuwait Scandal
Thiruvananthapuram --Protest campaigns to
extradite Asianet Managing Editor K.P.Mohan who is one of the
three sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Kuwait Supreme
Court is intensified by the Civil Liberties and Constitution
Protection Council, based in Thiruvananthapuram. It has urged
the intervention of President A.P.J. obs Kalam to extradite Asianet
managing editor K.P. Mohan and two others to Kuwait after their
conviction by the Kuwaiti First Instance Court in the Kuwait
school scam. More
K.P.Mohan, Asianet Managing Editor
gets 8 years Imprisonment from Kuwait Court for Indian School
Fund embezzlement
A Kuwaiti court recently sentenced two people
to eight years in prison for embezzling KD 150,000 belonging
to the Indian Community School, said a report in Kairali TV K.P.
Mohanan, Managing Editor of Asianet TV channel, and Mathew Philip,
were sentenced in absentia. .More
Kuwait Government
may ask Indian Government to return K.P.Mohan
The Indian Government is shielding
K.P.Mohan, a proved criminal who has duped thousands of Indian
School Parents and Students in Kuwait. While the Indian Government
accuses some Gulf countries of harbouring Dawood Ibrahim and
other alleged criminals, the same ministers are protecting a
proved criminal giving silly reasons. More
The Kuwait Court ruling
is a clear message to the NRKs who use political connections
to make money from Indian Schools.
More
Kuwait Government
may ask Indian Government to return K.P.Mohan
The Indian Government is
shielding K.P.Mohan, a proved criminal who has duped thousands
of Indian School Parents and Students in Kuwait. While the Indian
Government accuses some Gulf countries of harbouring Dawood Ibrahim
and other alleged criminals, the same ministers are protecting
a proved criminal giving silly reasons like the lack of extradition
treaty with Kuwait. Is it because the Asianet editor has been
playing the Hindu card very well that the Indian Government is
reluctant to hand him over to Kuwait as a reward for popularising
Sangh Parivar ideology in Kerala?
Recently, the Kerala High
Court asked Kerala Police to investigate a major financial embezzlement
case against former staff of a diary company in Muscat. National
Diary Product of Muscat got a favourable judgment from the High
Court to arrest its former Malayali staff who had absconded with
huge amounts. This should be taken as a precedent by the central
and state governments to hand over such criminals who create
a bad remark to the Kerala community in Gulf.
The most popular Malayalam
Channel, Asianet has been very vocal in exposing corruption in
high places. It was keenly reporting about a multimillion hawala
money flow from the Gulf to Kerala banks. Why is the channel
silent about K.P.Mohan who has diverted crores from Indian school
funds and invested the same illgotten money in Asianet. Being
an important visual medium that influence public opinion of resident
and Non Resident Keralites , the channel owes an explanation
to the people of Kerala and Asianet viewers about the whole issue.
Charity should begin at
home. Asianet Chairman Dr. Raji Menon who occupies an important
and responsible position in the Non Resident Keralites Affair
Department also owes an explanation to the Overseas Malayalis,
especially from Gulf. At least he owes an explanation to the
Keralite community in Kuwait. Watch this space.
The Kuwait Court ruling is a clear
message to the Prominent NRKs who use political connections to
make money from Indian Schools and Associations. Watch this space.
K.P.Mohan, Editor, Asianet gets 8
years Imprisonment from Kuwait Court for Indian School Fund embezzlement
Kuwait City - December
24, 2002. A Kuwaiti court recently sentenced two people to eight
years in prison for embezzling KD 150,000 belonging to the Indian
Community School, said a report in Kairali TV K.P. Mohanan, Managing
Editor of Asianet TV channel, and Mathew Philip, were sentenced
in absentia. Their accomplice, Thomas Chandy, was
reported to have been fined KD 5,000 for his complicity in the
crime. Kuwaiti authorities issued an arrest warrant last year
through Interpol for K.P. Mohanan, who left Kuwait for India
and joined Asianet after the crime was discovered. According
to Indian security officials, Mohanan cannot be arrested and
extradited to Kuwait due to the lack of an extradition treaty
between India and Kuwait. Mohanan, once served as a trustee of
the Indian Community School. Mathew Philip, who also served as
chairman of the school, escaped to India after he was released
on bail.-keralamaonitor.com
November 26, 2001
A press release was issued on the appointment
of Shri Swashpawan Singh currently Joint Secretary in the Ministry
of External Affairs, as the next Ambassador of India to the State
of Kuwait in succession to Shri Prabhu Dayal. He is expected
to take up his assignment shortly. Three Keralites accused in
the embezzlement of a huge sum from the Indian School at Salmia
in Kuwait about a decade ago have been found guilty and sentenced
to jail terms and fine.
The Kuwait First Instance Court awarded eight
years imprisonment each for Asianet Managing Editor K.P. Mohanan,
who was employed in the Kuwait Times at the time of the misappropriation,
and Mathew Philip, a Kuwait Government employee, while the third
Keralite, Thomas Chandy alias Kuwait Chandy, has been told to
pay a fine of KD500. Chandy and Philip were arrested in Kuwait
after the news of the scandal broke. In a swift move, Chandy
secured a bail paying back KD85,000 (about Rs 10.5 million),
part of the loot reportedly shared by the trio. Philip, however,
had to languish in a Kuwait jail for more than two years. But
he too managed to come out on bail and managed to escape to Kerala
against the bail terms.
Though the Kuwait Justice Ministry issued
an arrest warrant against Mohanan and the Interpol's help was
sought in this regard, Mohanan has not yet been arrested. As
per the arrest warrant, Mohanan is liable to be arrested if he
visits any of the Gulf Cooperation Council states.
Following a spate of complaints from Keralites
in Kuwait, the then Indian President K.R. Narayanan had directed
the Indian External Affairs Ministry in November, 2000 to take
stern action against the culprits. Keralites in Kuwait had also
submitted memoranda to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and
a number of politicians, including the then Kerala Chief Minister
E.K. Nayanar.
In spite of the directives from Narayanan
and Home Minister L.K. Advani in this regard, no action was taken
presumably because of the absence of an extradition treaty between
India and Kuwait. But legal circles point out that there exists
no hurdle if the Indian Government decides to hand over anyone
found guilty by the Kuwaiti Government. Such practices exist
among many countries.
The scam broke after the then Indian Ambassador
B.M.C. Nair alias Mohana Chandran, who had formed an ad hoc committee
of the school with Philip and Mohanan at the top to facilitate
the embezzlement, left Kuwait. By then the school funds estimated
to be more than Rs 420 million had been transferred to the accounts
of Mohanan and others. Nair has not been given any assignment
after his return from Kuwait. There were reports that the trio
acquired properties and shares making use of the misappropriated
amount. Mohanan, however, said he had been denied natural justice
and that he would initiate legal steps against the court verdict
here and in Kuwait.
