NDTV’s latest response


Posted June 14, 2017 by rajat77

This is a reaction sent by Prannoy Roy After the unjustified assaults, censured by lawful specialists like Fali Nariman as "unlawful", the administration has now released a progression of unverified assertions against NDTV and its promoters.

 
This is a reaction sent by Prannoy Roy

After the unjustified assaults, censured by lawful specialists like Fali Nariman as "unlawful", the administration has now released a progression of unverified assertions against NDTV and its promoters. The way that these releases, discharged as an unsigned report, are unknown, is proof of the subterfuge included.

NDTV will battle this subterfuge straightforwardly and transparently in court.

In the interim, here are 6 focuses that uncover why the administration's spilled charges are totally without premise. (It ought to be noticed that the Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Directorate are being utilized by government officials and that wherever we allude to these organizations, we mean not the officers but rather lawmakers who are controlling these offices).

Charge 1: The administration says it is investigating "undisclosed salary" of NDTV of 1,100 crore rupees.

The Facts in Response: There is positively no undisclosed pay. None by any stretch of the imagination. NBC, one of America's biggest and most seasoned TV systems (and a backup of General Electric or GE around then) put $150 million in NDTV in 2008. After five years, India's salary charge specialists strangely – with no proof – said the $150m venture:

a) was a "sham exchange"

b) NBC/GE was included in "round stumbling"

c) NBC/GE gone about as a front for "tax evasion"

These are amazingly genuine allegations of criminal offenses which would make NBC/GE CEO's obligated to detainment. The Indian IT office did not have – and presently can't seem to supply – any confirmation to back these uncontrollably unsafe allegations against GE which is a noteworthy US speculator in India.

Presently watch this meeting in 2008 with NBC's CEO, Jeff Zucker, which sets up that NBC put resources into NDTV.

The way that the Income Tax Department is making wild and outlandish assertions is evident with it looking for numerous deferments to keep the Tax Tribunal from deciding the benefits of the case.

In addition, how could the wage be "undisclosed" when everything about the $150 million dollars from NBCU/GE has been completely imparted to the specialists, both in India and in the US? The yearly reports of NBC and GE, in addition to filings with the American Security Exchange Commission (SEC) obviously say the $150 million venture into NDTV.

The way this was not a sham exchange is even today (after 9 years) easy to build up: Just check the records of the IRS and the SEC in the USA and they affirm that these assets originated from NBC.

At long last, the CEO of GE, Jeffrey Immelt, meets the Indian PM frequently. So our Income Tax Division is asserting that India's PM meets a "round-tripper" who goes about as a "front" in sham exchanges. Disgrace on the IT Department.

Charge 2: NDTV brought the cash up in "shell" organizations which had "no genuine business and no representatives."

The Facts in Response: As we have over and again expressed, NDTV Networks was a HOLDING organization – not a shell organization. This holding organization claimed critical resources/auxiliaries:

a) NDTV's stimulation channel Imagine

b) NDTV's Lifestyle channel Good Times

c) a media outsourcing joint wander with Genpact called Ngen

d) the computerized and versatile business of NDTV called NDTV Convergence

e) a scope of littler organizations.

These were all profitable organizations, which on the whole had many workers. For reference – investigate NDTV Convergence, which even today runs and possesses the majority of NDTV's advanced resources including its site, application, portable destinations and online networking accounts. How might you call this "no genuine business" or a "shell" organization? The experts are enjoying slander.

RBI perceives holding organizations as real substances – they are not shell/sham organizations.

NDTV Networks itself had a CEO, CFO and a Compliance Officer designated by NBCU and different workers – yet its genuine esteem originated from the advantages it possessed.

To draw a correlation, Tata Sons, which is additionally a holding organization, draws its incentive from the downstream organizations it claims. So is Tata Sons a "shell" organization?

Charge 3: NDTV set up various different substances in outside areas and afterward twisted them up.

The Facts in Response: These organizations were set up remembering NDTV's aim in the mid-2000s to wind up plainly a worldwide media organization and to list NDTV Networks for an IPO.

The structure depended on the guidance of driving worldwide money related and legitimate firms and was in total consistence with the important laws and controls.

If you don't mind take note of that these to some degree entangled structures were the standard 10 years back, essential for trans-national assessment effectiveness, and intended to help with mergers and acquisitions together with raising money.

Once the excitement channel (NDTV Imagine) was sold, there was no compelling reason to hold these organizations.

Claim 4: NDTV raised supports through "unidentified elements" in the British Virgin Islands, The Cayman Islands, UK, USA, Switzerland, Netherlands, and so on amid the money related years 2007-2009.

The Facts in Response: This is another lie by the Gang-of-Four-Liars. Each element from which assets were raised has been distinguished and reports presented quite a while prior to all the administration specialists.

Numerous multinationals structure their ventures for making speculations chance free through nations which give charge lack of bias. Truth be told, the Supreme Court has held that getting ventures through duty unbiased locales is an outstanding type of organizing speculation and has maintained the structure of ventures through Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Netherlands and so on.

Also, NDTV has unmistakably uncovered, with all the supporting documentation, where the cash originated from. The administration knows this.

Indeed, even the very procedure of raising the assets was totally straightforward. NDTV selected one of the biggest and most exceptionally regarded worldwide firms, Jefferies LLC., to raise stores for NDTV. Jefferies has its central command in New York.

Jefferies controlled the whole gathering pledges prepare and raised $100m from 8 foundations with workplaces situated in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, and so on. Each of these establishments had completely proclaimed and straightforward explanations behind finding their enlisted workplaces in different spots – which was no worry and with no association with NDTV. It was Jefferies LLC. that managed straightforwardly with these foundations and obviously with NDTV. Additionally, NDTV detailed each and every sum raised to the IT Department., the RBI, Stock Exchanges, and each other significant government expert in an open and straightforward way.

Specifically, the trolls have attempted to highlight The Cayman Islands just as NDTV has a record there. This too is an unmitigated lie. NDTV has no office, account or any nearness whatsoever in The Cayman Islands. Truth be told, the association with its enlisted office in The Cayman Islands is a regarded worldwide speculator that has put resources into a few other Indian organizations including other Indian media firms. Will the trolls – driven by the revolting lies of Gurumurthy and Subramanian Swamy – need every one of these organizations assaulted by the CBI?

Claim 5: After their $150 million venture, NBC and GE "washed" unaccounted pay of Rs. 1,100 crore conveyed of India by NDTV to the USA utilizing paper substances, and NBC and GE at that point sent the 1,000 crores back to India by means of "tax evasion".

The Facts in Response: We have as of now addressed the purposes of "unaccounted salary" and "paper substances". We should swing now to the point of "washing". At the end of the day, please comprehend the earnestness of what the administration is asserting so uncontrollably. Since it isn't NDTV they are blaming for laundering cash, however, one of the main organizations of the world, GE.

Their charge is basically that GE took "undisclosed cash", washed it, and afterward put it once more into NDTV Networks. Is there any proof whatsoever for this phenomenal charge on a top worldwide organization? None by any means. Is it valid? Obviously not, and we have as of now alluded to the broad proof that sets up this.

Any specialist or any individual from the press can basically confirm this by checking with GE, the IRS or the SEC. If it's not too much trouble take note of the reality of the allegation – assuming genuine, it would bring about one of the greatest corporate embarrassments in American history. It is not a charge that the Indian experts ought to be calmly tossing about with no proof and no premise since it could genuinely influence the venture atmosphere for India when the administration is pronouncing its sense of duty regarding ideas like Ease of Doing Business.

Charge 6: An infringement of Rs. 2,030 crores

The Facts in Response: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has controlled fundamental computations and utilized a few details and procedural mistakes – minor ones – to apply a punishment that can't be defended.

So the ED is mutilating its own particular principles for how to fine minor (by its own parameters) delays, for instance.

NDTV has never been a piece of any exchange which is not honest to goodness or not legitimate.

So What Next?

What India is seeing is an unverified, politically propelled and pernicious crusade by the administration specialists against NDTV, one of India's most established and most regarded TV media houses.

While there is most likely NDTV and reality will win at last, the specialists realize that the procedure is the discipline.

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Last Updated June 14, 2017