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Nira Radia is an Indian PR consultant and lobbyist, Nira has been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years, with extensive consultancy experience in the Aviation, Travel, Tourism and the Communication industry. She has conducted business with some of the most prestigious and leading brand names in the Aviation and Travel businesses besides a host of corporate companies. Her client list spans some of the world’s largest aircraft leasing companies of which some are ILFC, Singapore Airlines and AAR. She has also worked with manufacturers and service providers, like AAR, Airbus and Venada Avtec, etc. She has represented various international and domestic airlines including SIA, KLMuk and Sahara Airlines.

Nira Radia Phone Tapping and the 2G Spectrum Controversy
After getting authorization from the Home Ministry, the Indian Income Tax department tapped Radia’s phone lines for 300 days[16] in 2008-2009, as part of their investigations into possible money laundering, restricted financial practices and tax evasion.

These phone recordings led to the unveiling of the 2G spectrum controversy of a record $40 billion involving former Telecommunications and IT Minister A. Raja and other politicians, corporates and industrialists, government officials, middlemen and media persons, which subsequently led to his resignation from his post. In the tapped conversations between Nira Radia and prominent figures (referred to as the Radia Tapes), the following prominent figures are heard in conversation with Radia:

* A. Raja, Former telecom minister
* Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP
* N.K Singh, Rajya Sabha MP
* Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons
* (Mention of) Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries
* (Mention of) Anil Ambani, Reliance Communications
* Manoj Modi, Reliance Industries
* Barkha Dutt, Group editor, English news, NDTV
* Vir Sanghvi, HT advisory editorial director
* M.K. Venu, Senior business journalist
* Tarun Das, Former CII honcho
* Prabhu Chawla, editor of India Today magazine
* Suhel Seth, management guru and columnist
* Rajdeep Sardesai, CNN-IBN.

Source: TP