Radia moved from a rented flat in Safdarjung Development Area to a residential estate in Asola. įollowing the trip to Bahrain, Singh and his wife, Anjum, had an acrimonious divorce. To bring the money into India, Radia and Singh made several trips to London and Dubai together. The deal netted Radia and Singh a huge commission that they routed through Sofema, a company created the same year for guiding the foreign sales of large French aeronautic and defence groups. Įurocopter AS-355N operated by Air Sahara as part of its helicopter charter service.Īfter a successful negotiation, Sahara Airlines placed a $25 million order for four helicopters - three AS-355Ns and one AS-365N Dauphin. At the behest of part-owner Chandu Panjabi, Radia was to work on getting foreign hotel management companies interested in the restoration of Hotel Sea Rock, Bandra that had been damaged in the 1993 Bombay bombings. In March 1996 Radia persuaded Singh to quit Sahara Airlines and join her as a business partner in Mumbai. During these negotiations, Radia met Rao Dheeraj Singh, a traffic supervisor with Sahara Airlines, and grandson of former Haryana Chief Minister Rao Birender Singh. Acting as a liaison officer, Radia used her expertise in the areas of travel, aviation, government policies and the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to resolve Sahara Airlines' issues with the commercial department at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi. She was hired by the Sahara Group in New Delhi, India as an aviation consultant. In 1995 Radia rented an office in Vasant Vihar, Delhi. Ī Boeing 737-700 aircraft operated by Sahara Airlines at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi. Radia helped Sahara negotiate with International Lease Finance Corporation, a Los Angeles based company, for the lease of two Boeing 737-400 aircraft and spare parts. Menon, who was involved in Radia's aircraft lease business, sent Radia to New Delhi, India to meet Sahara Airlines CEO, Uttam Kumar Bose. In 1994 Radia's father, Iqbal Menon, met an advisor to Sahara Airlines at a party in London who mentioned that the airlines was looking to lease Boeing 737-400 aircraft to expand the business. By 1995 these companies had been liquidated, many of them after filing bankruptcy. Career Travel agent īetween 19 Niira Radia incorporated a string of travel and aviation related companies in London, in which she and her family members were shareholders and held positions such as company secretary and director.
On the advice of a numerologist, she added an extra letter to her name to make it "Niira". In 1994, the Radias divorced and Niira moved to India as a Person of Indian Origin.
In 1981 she married Janak Radia, a Gujarati businessman, with whom she had 3 sons. In the 1970s the family moved to London where she attended Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls followed by the University of Warwick. Niira Radia ( née Nira Menon) was born on 19 November 1960 in Nairobi, Kenya in a Punjabi family. These events led to Raja's resignation and later acquittal by Special CBI court, and Radia's departure from corporate lobbying. Discussion of the tapes resulted in the " Radia tapes controversy", which was a media event that led to the uncovering of the alleged 2G spectrum scam involving former telecommunications minister A Raja. Niira Radia is a former corporate lobbyist whose taped telephone conversations implicated her influence in the allocation of key ministries in the Government of India in 2009. Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, London
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