Mangaluru, Nov 7: The media reports that mentioned name of Harsha Moily, son of former union minister and Chikkabalapur MP M Veerappa Moily in the latest leaked Paradise Papers, has embarrassed the Congress party in Karnataka.
Political pundits say that the revelation has snatched the moral rights of Congress to target BJP after the media investigation exposed the black wealth of saffron party leaders Jayant Sinha and Ravindra Kishore Sinha.
According to The Indian Express, when Veerappa Moily was Union Minister in the UPA Government, his son Harsha Moily allegedly floated a firm which received investments from a Mauritius-based firm, Unitus Impact PCC.
His company Moksha-Yug Access Private Limited, received funds from MYA Unitus Impact Partners, one of the two cells of Unitus Impact PCC.
Harsha Moily was Congress ticket aspirant in Dakshina Kannada constituency during last Lok Sabha polls. Rumours also doing rounds that the Congress may field him from Karkala constituency in next Karnataka Assembly polls.
Harsha Moily’s clarification
"Having founded MYA and led the company as its CEO since its inception in 2005, I have seen MYA experience growth as well as face significant challenges in operating an impact business in rural India. The dairy/ agri space is extremely volatile, but it is a critical sector for rural India and we worked hard to make our business model work.
MYA has always had a farmer-first approach, and our objective has always been to ensure that our dairy farmers be benchmarked with the best in the world in terms of productivity (quality and quantity of milk per cow) and that economic growth be balanced with human progress.
With this primary objective, it was imperative that MYA raise external investment from professional investors in the impact investment space including by Unitus Impact PCC - MYA UIP, the investment vehicle set up by Unitus Impact to make investments into MYA (they led an investment round in 2011). Please also note that we have raised capital from a range of other professional institutional investors such as Unitus Equity Fund and Khosla Impact (both of whom originally invested in 2008) through their investment vehicles, with much of the overall equity investment into MYA having started even before my father became a Union Minister in UPA II."
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