FOCUS How did Bahrain national worked as COO of Jet Airways for 7 years without security clearance ? Nidar, Nirbhik Aur Khoji
KALCHAKRA
Conflict of Interest as Jet plants its people on prime technical positions in DGCA Jet Airways sleepy pilots descends the plane to dangerous depth in Turkey, risking the lives of flyers. Jet Airways manupulating the balance sheets to syphon off huge money and to avoid taxes.
Aviation Special
New Delhi
16-28 February 2018
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Biggest Aviation Scam JET AIRWAYS misleading Govt. of India Innocent passengers lives at the mercy of negligent carrier
Vineet Narain filed written complaints with CVC & CBI Will the Members of Parliament question the Civil Aviation Minister? Kalchakra Bureau
Those traveling by Jet Airways are risking their lives due to inefficient and careless pilots. Series of major accidents at different airports in India and abroad have been averted by the alert ATCs else thousands would have died. This is happening due to constant violations by Jet Airways in operating the carrier with criminal connivance of Ministry of Civil Aviaition & Directorate General of Civil Aviation. These authorities seem to be hand-in-glove with the airline. The Editor-in-Chief of Kalchakra, Vineet Narain, has filed two written complaints; one with the CVC on 5 Feb 2015 and the other with the CBI on 20 July 2015 requesting these authorities to investigate several scams of Naresh Goyal and his Jet Airways, which has taken the country for a ride by repeatedly violating several rules and adopting corrupt practices for personal gains. It is shocking that despite piles of evidences of very serious violations against Jet Airways India Ltd., the MoCA & DGCA have not acted against the airline. In 2014, Managing Editor of Kalchakra, Rajneesh Kapur exposed 131 pilots of Jet Airways, who were flying without obtaining the Proficiency Check. As a result they
Why did Union Home Ministry shield the violations of Jet Airways ?
were grounded. Such lapse on the part of DGCA and the airlines could have caused a loss of many precious lives. It is high time that this criminal nexus between Naresh Goyal and MoCA be thoroughly investigated and all involved must be punished for their crime against the nation. New Delhi, Recently the Union Home Kalchakra team has worked Ministry was directed by the Hon’ble systematically over the years to Delhi High Court, to answer Kalchakra’s RTI, whether mandatory security clearance was given or not to Capt. Hameed Ali, COO/CEO of Jet Airways. It is disturbing that the MHA kept on refusing to share this information despite our repeated RTIs. Subsequently, on our petition Central Information Commission Capt. Hameed Ali directed the MHA to reveal the information. Not adhering to CIC’s mandatory security clearance. It is obvious that the owner of Jet Airways Joy of Flying.... Recently Naresh Goyal must have greased 1. Pilots brawl in cockpit and come out leaving controls of aircraft and lives of passengers to God's mercy several palms in the ministry to 2. Cabin crew caught smuggling 3.5 crore in forex;alleges many more crew involved in the racket sweep this lapse on his part, under 3.Captain sleeps in cockpit while copilot plays on ipad, flight plunges 5000 feet out of control over Turkey the carpet. Otherwise why MHA 4. Both pilots sleep in cockpit over Germany leading to 9-11 like scare; flight intercepted by fighters would not be concerned about such grave violation which can endanger 5.Pilot loses control during takeoff at Goa due to poor training ; aircraft goes off the runway and sinks into ground the security of the country. On our 6. Boeing 777 aircraft narrowly misses Airport wall and highway traffic at London Heathrow ; caused by RTIs, the stereo type reply of MHA wrong speed calculation by poorly trained pilots was that, “this cannot be revealed 7. Boeing 777 tail strikes the runway in Amsterdam, plane severely damaged; again due to wrong speed calculation by negligent pilots due to 'intelligence' reasons”. While the Court came heavily upon the 8. Flight makes wrong turn in London Heathrow into the takeoff path of parallel runway; midair collision
Ignored security clearance of Bahrain National who continued to be the CEO for 7 years
averted by quick action of Air traffic control 9. Bone breaking landing in Hong Kong by training chief of airline ; not even reported for airworthiness inspection before the next flight
collect authentic evidences against this anti national courier. We believe in unbiased thorough investigation with dodged persistence and lead a crusade to bring all the guilty to the book. Kalchakra will continue to expose more such scams of Naresh Goyal, till he is punished for his crimes. Naresh Goyal
order the MHA challenged the same in the Delhi High Court. The Hon’ble Court on 27 July 2017 also accepted Kalchakra’s plea and directed the MHA to reveal the information to Kalchakra. It is surprising that MHA ignored the fact that Capt. Hameed Ali continued to be the CEO/COO of Jet Airways from 2007 without obtaining the
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Nidar, Nirbhik Aur Khoji Kalchakra 16-28 February 2018
Stand Up Ministers, Despite serious illegal acts of JET AIRWAYS Secretaries of Civil of flying into South Africa no punitive action has been taken against the airlines, why ? On 29 April 2013, Jet Airways operated a Operators Permit and avoiding customs Aviation and DGCA.... charter flight to Waterkloof (FAWK), an
inspection of passengers and their baggage by It is shocking to see how much liberty Naresh Goyal has airbase near Johannesburg, South Africa. landing at an Air Force base without informing taken with the Min. of Civil Aviation and the Directorate This flight was taken out of India by violating customs authorities of the country (copy of the General of Civil Aviation, to ensure smooth flying of his several rules. It’s unusual landing at the report is with Kalchakra). Jet Airways. He makes sure that his repeated crimes go defence base, without permission This act of landing at an defence airbase could unnoticed and do not become stumbling block in his generated a huge controversy in South have endangered the lives of all the passengers, unethical phenominal growth. As they say, there are no African media. The local investigating which included two UP Cabinet Ministers, free lunches, it is obvious that the palms of all the agencies and police interrogated and Shivpal Yadav and Azam Khan. This unlawful ministers, secretaries and bureaucrats down the line of humiliated the Jet crew for hours and act lowered the prestige of our nation in South the Civil Aviation Ministry and DGCA have been greased consequently the airline was forced to Africa and in the International Aviation Industry. sufficiently to ensure that all of them turn a blind-eye remove the aircraft from Waterkloof to Most reluctantly, DGCA conducted it's own towards the treachery being committed against the Johannesburg International Airport (FAOR), ritualistic enquiry, which is an humbug. where it should have normally landed. Disturbing fact is that despite such gross nation. In this special issue of Kalchakra, we have just taken the An enquiry conducted by South African violations no effective action has been taken lid off. The malice is much deeper. We have got enough government indicted Jet Airways for against Jet Airways, why ? documentary evidences to establish the criminal entering South Africa without a valid Foreign connivance of almost everyone connected with this ministry. This is a matter of grave concern because this kind of immoral act of senior bureaucrats not only endangers the lives of millions of innocent people but also threatens the security of the nation. If we also decide to expose the smuggling part of Jet Airways conspiracy then many more heads in other departments will roll Indian Express 20 May 2013 down. Recently PM Modi gave a call to the nation to fight corruption at all levels. Kalchakra news bureau, since 1989, has been working persistently, systematically, objectively and without any bias to expose corruption. We have led many crusades against corruption in high places. People respect us for To ensure trouble-free clearances regarding Surprisingly, the Jet Airways employees our integrity and fearlessness. Reminder of few of our the operation of his flights, despite serious working in the DGCA have not resigned from irregularities being done everyday, Naresh Jet Airways and continue to enjoy the benefits past crusades will not be out of place... Goyal managed to get his employees of both. This is again a clear case of conflict of Jain Hawala Case appointed on key positions in DGCA. This was Interest. In addition to Capt. Ajay Singh, the Vineet Narain, editor Kalchakra created history in India in done in gross violation of the existing rules and others from Jet Airways are Capt. Pankaj 1993 by unearthing scams like Jain diary Hawala case, in with the connivance of DGCA & MoCA. Anand and Capt. Sweta Singh, both working which dozens of Union Cabinet Ministers, Chief Irregularity in the appointment as Dy. Chief Flight Inspectors. Besides the Ministers, Governors and sr. bureaucrats were of Capt. Ajay Singh as CFOI /Dy. Flight Directorate of pilot matter, in-flight chargesheeted for corruption for the first time in the CFOI (DGCA) was done when department for controlling the cabin crew is history of India in 1996. the position of Chief Flight also from Jet Airways. An honest probe into Operations Inspector and two of this will unearth the nexus between the two. Corruption in Judiciary his deputies were appointed, The entire nexus came to Kalchkara’s notice When mainstream media was hesitant to touch the judiciary, due to the fear of Contempt of Courts Act, Mr. Capt. Ajay Singh, Ex.CFOI, DGCA w h o h a p p e n t o b e t h e when without finishing his contract with the employees of Jet Airways. This DGCA Capt. Ajay Singh suddenly jumped ship Narain locked horns with the highest judiciary by was done by violating all t o t a k e - u p a s e n i o r exposing series of scams of the Chief Justices of India, established norms governing appointments in management position in Jet while they were all in chair from 1998 to 2000. the Government of India. Airways. The position offered to Chandraswami These are Joint Secretary level positions and him in Jet Airways was in a It was on Narain’s exposure, that internationally known are directly responsible for handling crucial much higher grade than what tantrik and political wheeler-dealer, Chandraswami clearances and approvals for all operators he was holding prior to joining landed up in Tihar Jail in 1987. including Jet Airways. A reply by DGCA to DGCA. This makes it clear that Kalchakra’s RTI query confirms that nothing he was rewarded for services Chairman STC has been done to resolve the obvious and illegally rendered to Jet Airways It was due to the expose by our team that Arvind Pandalai had to leave Chairmanship of STC, in 2008 despite full visible Conflict of Interest in these while being in employment of appointments. Effectively, a vital directorate of DGCA. After the end of patronage of the then PMO. DGCA is practically being run by Jet Airways. employment with DGCA, Capt. Additional Director CBI These persons should have been asked to Ajay Singh has resumed his Most recently, Archana Ramasundaram (DGP, Tamil either resign their lien on Jet Airways employment with Jet Airways Nadu), could not join CBI as Addl. Director, because we employment or should have been removed immediately. According to challenged her illegal appointment by ACC in 2014. from these sensitive positions without further sources the airline continued to accumulate When the mainstream media, forgets to act on such delay. his salary and perks during the period he was serious issues, Kalchakra Samachar Trust, brings out By keeping his people at crucial posts at working with the DGCA to be paid on this publication. It is a weapon in our hands to take our DGCA, Naresh Goyal has hit two birds with one ‘satisfactory’ completion with the DGCA and crusade forward against high and mighty. stone: safe passage for his operations and subsequent rejoining with Jet Airways. creating hindrances in the functioning and Needless to mention that this promise of The present crusade against the corruption of Civil growth of other airlines. It is obvious that such accumulated money can work both as a carrot Aviation Ministry is to help CVC and CBI to clean up the generosity cannot be granted to Jet Airways and a stick while serving in the GoI to the mess in the aviation sector of India. Jet Airways is no without major Quid Pro Quo. How such satisfaction of Naresh Goyal. This is the exact exception we are confident that these agencies will unethical practice was adopted by the definition of conflict of interest. How could perform their statutory duties with honesty. Failing which appointing authorities needs to be thoroughly DGCA and MoCA allow this? we will be forced to take up the battle to the Apex Court probed and the guilty should be punished for and to every town. The information technology will such corrupt acts. ensure it happens smoothly...
Jet employees working in DGCA: ‘Saiyaan bhay Kotwal Ab Dar Kahe Kaa’
Nidar, Nirbhik Aur Khoji Kalchakra 16-28 February 2018
How did Bahrain national Capt. Hameed Ali worked as COO of Jet Airways for 7 years without security clearance ? Why MHA & MEA did not raise an alarm ? Did anybody bother to find out if such act was done to provide shield to global terror network ...from page 1 MHA for not sharing such a simple information in negative or affirmative. Finally, the MHA replied by stating, “It is informed that a proposal for security clearance in respect of Capt. Hameed Ali, proposed Director of Jet Airways was received in MHA on 07.10.2013 from MoCA and security clearance was granted 25.07.2014� It is disturbing to know that for 7 good years Capt. Hameed Ali continued to be the CEO/COO of India's largest private airline by compromising with the security of the nation and playing with the lives of millions of innocent travelers. As per the law of the land any person holding a position of CEO/COO/CFO in an airline, has to obtain the mandatory security clearance from MHA, if he/she is a foreign national, which, is the case with Capt. Hameed Ali, who is a national of Bahrain and not an Indian citizen. Interestingly enough, Mr. Naresh Goyal did not bother to seek security clearance for Capt. Ali for 7 years until we started shooting our RTIs to MoCA and MHA. The Editor-in-Chief of Kalchakra Vineet Narain wrote a syndicated column on this violation in Oct. 2015 (see box), which appeared in several regional dailies of the country. Yet, no cognizance was taken by the officials of MHA, why? In a country like ours, where terrorism is a serious concern and any lapse on our security can play havoc with the
lives of people, is it not shocking that the biggest private air career appointed a foreign national as its COO, by violating all rules and
Home Affairs (MHA). The DGCA/MoCA have to obtain the NOC and issue the appointment letter for these positions.
Vineet Narain's syndicated column on Jet Airways published leading regional dailies in Oct 2015 procedures related to security checks? This is yet another example of the Jet-DGCA nexus. As per the Civil Aviation Requirement, Section 3 Air Transport Series 'C' Part II, The positions of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and/or Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and/or Chief Operating Officer, if held by foreign nationals, would require to be security vetted by Ministry of
But in the case of Capt. Hameed Ali, he was appointed as COO violating all norms by Naresh Goyal. Knowing fully well that Capt. Hameed Ali, a Bahrain national, the clearance from MHA was mandatory, all the officials of the MoCA/DGCA, be it the Secretary or the DG, turned a blind eye to this blatant violation and allowed Jet Airways to play with the security and safety of the nation.
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After our intervention in 2015, Naresh Goyal and his team in an overnight action removed Hameed Ali from the post of COO and made him an advisor of Jet Airways. By doing this can they undo the deeds of Capt. Hameed Ali, which he did during his illegal tenure as COO in the past 7years? We are not casting aspersions on Capt. Ali's credentials but it is significant to mention that in the matters related to the national security and civil aviation, a possibility of a foreign national, connected with the underworld or terrorist outfits, deliberately violating the laws of the land to penetrate into the system cannot be ruled out. In this matter parliament and media has been kept in dark. The security of the nation has been dangerously compromised. Not only Naresh Goyal but the Minister of Civil Aviation, its Secretary and the DG of DGCA are also equally responsible for this anti-national activity. Actually, Naresh Goyal has laid his web of corrupt deeds in such a way that be it any important bureaucrat or politician in the Govt. they are hand in glove with him. That is why the officials of Jet Airways fearlessly say that Kalchakra News Bureau can't even touch them with a barge-pole.
Sleepy Pilot Descends the plane to dangerously low height in Turkey : it could have hit several international flights !!! Jet Airways flight 9W228 inexplicably descended about 5000 feet in Turkish Airspace on the morning of 8.8.2014, endangering the safety of several flights operating through the busy airspace (news clipping enclosed). An audit was conducted by DGCA following this incident, which resulted in several critical findings indicated serious violations in the Operations department of Jet Airways. Specifically, the DGCA team discovered that 131 pilots were utilized for flights after their Proficiency Check had expired. This amounts to operating an aircraft with unqualified pilots and as a consequence, with invalid insurance. Besides suspending licences of two pilots out of these 131, DGCA did not take any action
on this serious issue till Kalchakra raised an alarm. After which all of them were grounded and only a warning was issued to them (see box).
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Pilots get away with petty punishments The aviation experts will confirm that any kind of lapses in the aviation sector is not tolerated. Some of the lapses are mentioned below which is a clear case of bending the norms in favour of Jet Airways. Capt. NT Malkani - He has done the heaviest landing that too in charter flight of the troop of former US President Bill Clinton. The incident was never reported to the DGCA and Naresh Goyal managed the same case getting clean chit to Malkani without any investigation. Capt. Malkani in the past has been flying without valid trainer licence still he was allowed to exercise the privileges of license. Moreover, post retirement the pilot was allowed to become Flight Safety Chief of Jet Airways and after the RTI filed by Kalchakra, he was forced to quit from this sensitive post but still continues to be the advisor of Naresh Goyal. Malkani was the key person to release the flight to Waterkloof. It is revealed by sources close to Naresh Goyal that the charter flight was booked by Ajay Gupta - NRI of South Africa, the flight was sent with a dual purpose; to carry cash and gold under the garb of a marriage. Capt. Malkani is key person manipulating DGCA and Rajiv Gupta the then CFOI, gave the false information to pilots and ATC and allowed the flight to leave the country. Kalchakra’s investigation reveals that Malkani and Naresh Goyal knew it very well that the Customs and DRI had no control over the outbound cargo, only the CISF and GMR have been authorised to scan the cargo. Where the CISF is only concerned about the explosive part the cargo scanning. Malkani and Goyal easily managed the smuggling of gold and cash under the garb of the wedding gifts etc. The same protocol was extended in South Africa and the report of the authorities reveal that no custom and immigration was done at the Waterkloof airbase, which is a serious lapse. Capt. M.I. Mahna - the senior most pilot of Naresh Goyal’s Jet Airways, flying Airbus 330,
Overloaded pilots
also designated as the examiner in the airline on behalf of the DGCA. Capt. Mahna was a habitual offender of breaking Civil Aviation laws in the past this pilot violated the FDTL norms and compromised with the safety of innocent flyers. Recently, on the compaint of Kalchakra his another violation was reported to the DGCA and the matter is being investigated. The violation are of such serios nature that the licence of this pilot shall be cancelled. Interestingly, Naresh Goyal flew from Dubai 5th December 2015 with a motive only to ‘manage’ some key persons in the DGCA /MoCA, investigating Capt. Mahna’s case. Capt. Kunal Khajuria- working in the management of Jet Airways has also done multiple violations compromising the safety of the travelers. In the past he has been grounded from the post of trainer for two years by the DGCA. In his last case of Sept 2014, he once again committed the violation while performing his duties in March 2015. The Jt. DG, DGCA Mr. JS Rawat decided to remove the trainership of this pilot, however the CFOI planted by Naresh Goyal in DGCA, Capt. Ajay Singh ensured that Mahna is given only a 3 month penalty in such a serious violation. The surprising element in all such violations is that all the violations of serious nature are being committed by those pilots who are at key positions in the management of Jet Airways. Why does Naresh Goyal hire people with weak ability in his management? If the Waterkloof incident is to be seen then the hidden agenda and vested interest of Goyal can be fullfilled only with the help of such incompetent people, who can easily break laws on the order of their Chairman, who acts on the wishes of his hidden investors.
Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) regulations have been violated by Jet Airways through questionable means. The FDTL regulations are contained in CAR Section 7 of DGCA which expressly prohibits pilots engaged in passenger aircraft operations from operating a flight on two consecutive nights. A reply by DGCA to Kalchakra’s RTI query indicates that Jet Airways has cleverly bypassed this key regulation by getting an illegal 'FDTL Scheme' approved by obviously corrupt means. To make it look normal, the same approval has been granted to Air India as well, but not to any other operator. There is also no evidence that any risk assessment was undertaken before granting this approval, which amounts to putting passengers life in danger due to tired and fatigued pilots operating their flights for the sake of increasing airline's profits. The FDTL rules were made based on a scientific study and report submitted by Nasim Zaidi Committee in 2012, and by violating this critical pilot rest provision, Jet Airways and corrupt DGCA officials have put innocent public's lives in danger. This approval needs to be cancelled immediately and the guilty officials brought to book. Similarly breaching of DGCA regulations by senior Jet Airways officials through fudging crew duty time records and Computerized Rostering System is yet another example of Jet Airways corrupt practices. In a recent case it was found that a senior executive pilot of Jet Airways was openly flouting FDTL regulations and operating flights in a fatigued state. Copies of his computerized roster shows that this company has removed all automatic safeguards from their Computerized Rostering System, and is involved in a large scale manipulation of records to hoodwink any subsequent audit. If you have evidences of corruption in high places Kalchakra News Bureau can take them up with our limited resources and unlimited energy. Write to us at : kalchakranews@gmail.com
Money Laundering leads to Swiss bank Critical examination of the balance sheets of Jet Airways for the last two decades gave us shocking revelations of how the huge of sums of money is being laundered under the garb of goodwill loss. As per the balance sheet of Jet Airways Ltd. (copy with Kalchakra), the difference between the net results and operating results is primarily attributable to non-cash impairment of goodwill of Rs. 1,172 cr. In the year ending 31.3.15. “Goodwill is a long-term asset categorized as intangible, just like brands, patents, trademarks and customer loyalty. It arises when a company acquires another company. Its value-the money paid to buy the business minus the fair market value of its tangible assets-is lowered in the acquirer's books if the value of the acquired company falls. For instance, Tata Steel said it would write off goodwill and tangible assets worth $1.6 billion during financial year 2012-13 for the loss of value of Tata Steel Europe, formerly Corus, plus other assets in Thailand and South Africa.”
Interestingly in the case of Jet Airways, the story is entirely different because the company in the past twenty years is projecting loss, then what is the basis of earning the goodwill? If the goodwill was earned by way of business which operated under the Indian law, over the Indian land, then once it is monetized, it is liable for tax at the end of the company/entity/individual. This has not been done by Naresh Goyal. Hence, it is important for the taxation authorities to investigate Jet Airways for loss of goodwill, in their two consecutive balance sheets and the mechanism used to monetize the goodwill.
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