C Sivasankaran: A maverick prone to courting controversy and the CBI

A consummate deal-maker, the former Aircel boss raked in the moolah in many, but lost a packet in several others

Serial enterprenuer C Sivasankaran is not new to controversy or his tryst with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). In 2011, Siva deposed before the agency against friend-turned-foe Dayanidhi Maran that the latter had forced him to sell Aircel to Maxis of Malaysia before giving him license in 14 circles, when Maran was the telecom minister. That led to a series of investigations on the Marans as well as chargesheets and allegations of a deal with Maxis, a CBI special court discharged all the accused in the case last year, after a span of six years.

Siva now faces