Indian of the Week:Chitrakala Vasu

Indian of the week 01/09

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The desperate women Chitrakala joined the long list of Samy Vellu cronies who enjoyed power and after fall out cry foul.
Chitrakala says, she is no monkey but a Chartered Accountant and MBA holder to deserve the high income of RM 18,000 for being MIED CEO.

T Mohan, Chitrakala's Business partner and MIC National youth chief

Chitrakala's Business partner questioned

NST, March 04 2009 -- "She had told me it was money collected from her family members. I only knew the money might be connected to the MIED when police began this investigation," he told the New Straits Times when contacted.
A source close to MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said about RM3.5 million was taken out from the MIED account "some time in the third quarter of last year" for a "personal business purpose". (...more)

Chitrakala says she is scared of Samy Vellu

Baradan Kuppusamy, themalaysianinsider.com, March 01 009 -- “He felt very insecure after losing in Sungei Siput and losing as minister. Not being a minister anymore and without it he was a nobody. He knew his days were numbered and he would be challenged for the president’s post. So he got very insecure and saw enemies everywhere,” she said. (.....more)

Samy Vellu says:

“The statements were made by a desperate woman who is being investigated by the police for criminal misappropriation of funds belonging to the Indian community.”

“There has never been a greater case of breach of trust by an employee (of MIED). She is nothing more than a thief devoid of any morals and standards of decency.

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MIED spat: Slanging match over missing millions turns vicious

NST, March 02 2009 -- The claws are out. Both sides have resorted to publicly calling each other a thief. In what is becoming an increasingly venomous spat, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu accused former Maju Institute of Educational Development chief executive officer P. Chitrakala Vasu of being a "thief devoid of any morals". (.....more

Founder-member boycotts MIED AGM, alleges irregularities

themalaysianinsider.com, Jan 16 2010 -- Among the matters being investigated, according to Subramaniam, is 1.29 million TNB shares that the government allocated to the MIC. The shares were later transferred to the MIED to be held in trust, with an agreement that 50 per cent of the proceeds from the sale of the shares to be donated to the MIED. (....more)

MIED AGM 2010

The Traveler, Monday, January 18, 2010 -- MIED finally held its official annual general meeting, this morning, with 26 attendee’s out of 31 members. (....more)

More trouble for MIED

The Malay Mail, Thursday, January 14th, 2010 -- It was learnt that Ismail had ordered CCM chief executive officer Datuk Azmi Ariffin to investigate complaints against the MIED involving alleged breach of trust, financial mismanagement, abuse of power, negligence and breach of statutory duties by the trustees. (.....more)

Supermom Chitrakala Vasu
	MIED Maju Institute of Educational Development CEO


Chitrakala & Samy Velu in good times
MIED scandal: Probe into former top MIC official NST, Mar 03 2009 -- "I hope police will freeze Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu's bank account as well. "Are they daring enough?" she asked at a press conference held at the Parliament cafeteria yesterday. She said the police had not frozen her husband's account."But I don't know what would happen to his accounts over the next few days," she said. (....more)

“He financed my education, launched my career and got me started in business. He got for my husband contracts and licences. He was our greatest benefactor,” (She readily admits Samy Vellu personally met former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Najib to help get for her husband a Proton and a Perodua outlet and management of a National Service camp.) (...more)

MIC leader: MIED executive a 'desperate person' Bernama, Mar 01 2009 -- Saying that he was not at all surprised by the allegations made by the MIED senior officer, the politican said the statements were that of "a desperate person, who was being investigated for criminal misappropriation of funds belonging to the Indian community". (.......more)

Chitrakala's Police Report - Malay Mail

* Claimed that RM2 million for the tsunami victims in Sri Lanka was collected in 2004 under the Ministry of Works, when Samy Vellu was minister.

* Alleged the money was subsequently transferred to the account of MIC’s social welfare arm Yayasan Pemulihan Sosial (YPS) of which Samy Vellu is chairman and Chitrakala the CEO.

* Alleged that Samy Vellu had said the cash was extras from the funds that were collected and intended for future use for the people of Sri Lanka.

* Alleged that Samy Vellu had asked her to place the RM2 million in fixed deposit.

* Claimed she was making the police report “to avoid the possibility of Samy Vellu using the RM2 million for any other unauthorised purpose and putting the blame on me”.

* Alleged lorry loads of files and documents were carted away from the MIED office on Jan 2, when she was told to go on leave pending an internal probe.

* Gave details of a heated confrontation she had with Samy Vellu in his office on Dec 31, 2008, in the presence of MIC vice-presidents Datuk S. Veerasingham and Datuk S. Sothinathan.

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No Suits Against Samy Vellu, Wife And Tamil Nesan Over Defamatory Words

Oct 21 (Bernama) -- The defamation suits filed by former Maju Institute of Educational Development (MIED) chief executive officer P. Chithirakala against former MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu and two others, have reached an out-of-court settlement. This followed Chithirakala filing a notice of discontinuance of the suits last Tuesday, at the High Court. (......more)

‘AG abused power in Chithirakala case’

September 15, 2011, FMT -- Referring to Chithirakala’s case, he said her disclosure that she had returned the money amounted to an admission that she had committed the crime. The court should therefore punish her, he added. (.....more)

Samy Vellu-Chitrakala spat closure

The Malay Mail, Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 -- The court was told Chitrakala returned the money to MIED in one lump sum on July 29, prompting the Attorney General’s Chambers to drop the charges against her on Sept 6. (......more)

Former MIED CEO acquitted of RM4mil cheating charge

The Star, Tuesday September 13, 2011-- Former chief executive officer of Maju Institute for Education Development (MIED), P. Chithirakala, has been acquitted and discharged of three charges of cheating involving RM4mil. (.....more)

MIED fiasco blows up

The Malay Mail, Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 -- The nine trustees of MIC's billion-ringgit educational flagship Maju Institute for Education Development (MIED) have been slammed with an unprecedented legal action that could provide an insight into alleged irregularities that has wrecked the credibility of the party. (.....more)

Loyalists leave Samy Vellu high and dry

themalaysianinsider.com, Jan 12 -- MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu and his troubled brainchild, MIED, has been thrown into further disarray, after loyalist Tan Sri Dr K. Ampikaipakan quit as AIMST University chairman, trustee and director of MIED. (......more)

AIMST CHIEF QUITS

The Malay Mail, Friday, January 8th, 2010 -- Tan Sri Dr K. Ampikaipakan had been implicated land — alienated by the Kedah government to build the Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology University (AIMST) — in the name of IMST Sdn Bhd. (.....more)

MIED IN THE DOCK

The Malay Mail, Dec 14 2009 -- The MIC’s billion-ringgit educational flagship Maju Institute for Education Development (MIED) is in turbulent waters, following a legal notice against its eight trustees by one of its own members alleging serious irregularities, ranging from financial mismanagement to abuse of power. (.....more)

MIED run by an 'unlawful' bunch

The Malay Mail, December 1st, 2009 -- “MIED clearly failed to adhere to the statutory requirement and its own articles, and for the whole of 2009, it has been operating with an unlawfully constituted board of directors, and this illegal board cannot call, and convene the 2009 AGM,” said Subramaniam. (....more)