The Deadliest “ GHAST ” scams of India :: Some like Congress and Mostly Congress At The Centre Of “ HELMS ”
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Hawala Scam
The
Most “ GHAST ” scams of India :: Some like Congress and Mostly Congress At The Centre Of “ HELMS ”
Today is the date . July
5th 1948 as that was and today again is the same date July 5th
2020, and it is over 72 years
in toto that the nation had first observed the FIRST of all the scams that had taken under the political
system of India and it was under the rein of the Congress then
Agreed the country then did not have a political party to
rule India as the elections were not held but the Britishers had handed the
country and it’s rein to Shri Rajagopal Chakravarti to rule this nation as the
Governer General of India and India thus was under his Governorship but at the
helm of the affairs were the Congress leaders led by Mr Jawaharlal Nehru
The First of the scam that had surfaced at the time of
Independent India took under the rein of pandit Nehru and that was the Jeep Scam. From a meagre
position then always considered to be the slaves of the various communities
that invaded India to being at the behest of the Britishers that gave the rein
to a man to rule as the Governer General, India and India’s GDP which was at 25.5% of the entire world GDP
was based at even below 2%
when the nation was handed over to Mr Chakravarti .
Four years from then almost, we were not only an FULL-FREE-INDEPENDENT nation,
but we were contesting to elect a Government to run this country. The Jeep
Scam- actually what is SCAM
in itself was a UNKNOWN
factor without any meaning to this nation as almost more than 90% of the country then was illiterate and uneducated.
Scams if that was the first – it slowly became a FASHION-OF-THE-DAY for the
politicians to do it and do it with panache and slowly it surfaced like the
snow balls or the lavas of the volcanoes that when it surfaces it completely shakes
the region and the area where it causes the damages before it settles down for
another of that kind to happen.
This actually had mademe to try out and figure the most
GHAST scams that might have taken place in the Indian systems of the ugly
politics that we have and my studies reveals the following-:
1 ). We are the most CORRUPT nation when
the area of the Asia-Pacific is taken into account
A study by a Berlin-based NGO pegs India as the most corrupt nation in the Asia-Pacific region. These eight scams show why we have the poor rating. There are eight scams that it shows but I would like to add a few over it to somehow bring it to the light as to why the IMF and it’s team has put India at the top of the region in the Asia-Pacific to be the most corrupted nation in the world.
According to International Monetary Fund (IMF), the
world wastes up to $2 trillion in corruption. That is a significant
number: Secondly we also have to
study the economy of the world in terms of it’s GDP. What could be the percent of the world’s GDP. With a pressing
need to end corruption and foster harmony and stronger ties globally, the
United Nations observed International Anti-Corruption Day on December 9.
The central theme was 'United against corruption for development, peace and
security’. India is ‘Most Corrupt Country in Asia-Pacific Region’,
according to a recent study by Transparency International, a Berlin-based NGO
working against corruption.
The
condition in India is such that for every DAMN and BLESSED things that to
happen or that to get the benefit for yourself even if that is your’s Seven out of 10 people in India, the
study stated, had to pay a bribe to access public services. Measures to
tackle corruption and curb the growing menace of black money has dominated the
national discourse over the past years. Various policies and legislations,
including the implementation of Goods and Services Tax and the
demonetisation of high-value currencies were some of the steps taken by
the Central government in a bid to make India corruption-free.
The King Of All The Scam-:
When we talk about the scandals and the scams, nobody ever forgets
the BOFORS and it’s unhygienic condensation, when one really talks about it in
terms of the security and the national consequences that it could have had on
the structure of the defense systems of India.
Bofors scandal was one of India’s major weapons-contract political
scandal that occurred in the 1980’s and 1990’s. This scandal was initiated by
the Congress party politicians accusing the then Indian prime minister, Rajiv
Gandhi, and several other Indian and Swedish government officials of receiving
major kickbacks from Bofors AB — a Swedish arms manufacturer.
What was so unnatural that this deal was done and conducted by
India with a country which in itself is one of the most corrupted country in
the world and above it the people who were dealing and werew involved from the
other end were all the NAMES- “ BLACK-LISTED ” in the annals of the World Most
Heinous Business man .Yet without any search and research and without any examination
this nation led by Congress under the leadership of rajiv Gandhi went on to
finish a deal to buy the Cannons infact to supply that to the Indian Army the
fact being that those cannons were NOT
able to fire the shots more than THIRTY-FIVE
kilometres .
Pics-:
The Bofors Guns : Not At All
The Guns Of Navarone
THE QUESTION WAS- HOW COULD ONE PASS THE QUOTATION OF THAT COMPANY
WHOSE MANUFACTURED CANNONS COULD NOT COVER A DISTANCE OF MORE THAN THIRTY FIVE
KILOMETRES.
The scandal came to light due
to excellent work in investigative journalism carried out by the Reuters news
based on revelation of Swedish radio’s breaking news, and then by the Hindu
newspaper. Journalist Chitra
Subramaniam who was working with Hindu at that time procured nearly 350
documents concerning the pay-offs.
It was alleged that Bofors had paid Rs. 640 million
in the form of kickbacks to the Indian politicians and important defense
officials to win a bid to supply India’s
155 mm field howitzer, a short gun for firing shells on high
trajectories at low velocities.Obviously,
the VELOCITY being so LOW the distance travelled by the feeds would be less and
of NO USE still this arm was procured . No reason that the ENEMIES THEN WERE NOT FEARING
INDIA AT ALL. They would
plainly say that – INDIA’S ARMS DO NOT SCARE US AT ALL. Now the things are VERY DIFFERENT
The scale of the scandal was so
huge that it led to the defeat of the congress party in the 1989 general
elections. The Delhi High court in
2004 quashed all charges of payoffs against former PM Rajiv Gandhi and others.
This was the case to start off and start with the Congrss at a
larger scale in the late eighties and that opened the flood gate of everything
in this country as far as the cases of scams and scandals were the talk of the
day and the towns but as I have said that- MANY
“ GHOSTS ” were there in the offing to beat one another in terms of the
scandals and the scams.
I shall hereby lay down the things and the facts one by one-:
1.
Abhishek Verma arms deals scandal
This deal again had to do with the arms
supply and the defense. Taking the cognizance and the leaves out of the Bofors
and the requirement of the arsenal in the defense systems of India, this man
who had high influential parents working in the Indian Administrative sector
with some of his relatives based at abroad who were and are the middleman of
the deals which relates with the arms and ammunition, they went in for a deal
for the supply of submarines to the Indian Navy. In reality the one that was in
the line for the supply and that which the Indian navy wanted it the MOST was cut
off and this one which was in the line for supply and for which this scam took
place was not that necessary for the indian Navy to put it in their lines far
and as arsenal was the factor which gave the scam to take place and the rest is
again a BLACK WORDS with RED LININGS underneath in the annals of the
Indian scams
Abhishek
Varma is believed to be the main arms dealer and the prime suspect in the Scorpene submarines deal case, Agusta Westland
VVIP helicopters bribery scandal, and Navy War Room leak case.
Belonging to a politically connected family with both his parents holding
government portfolios, Abhishek was exposed to the media and public life since
his childhood days. He was even named as the youngest billionaire at the
age of 28 in 1997. With a wide range of business associations, including
BSNL, multinational FMCG brands, and even construction of an international
airport, he was known as the ‘ Lord of War ’ in the international
defence and armament company circles. In 2006, Abhishek was accused of
receiving kickbacks of approximately $200 million, through a $4-5 billion
Indian military deal involving the Indian government’s purchase of six
Scorpène-class submarines. Further, in 2012, the CBI raided his residence and
establishments after registration of multiple cases of corruption and money
laundering against him and his wife. He was arrested in 2012. He was also
named as a suspect in the 2013 Agusta Westland VVIP helicopters bribery
scandal, where it was alleged that leaders in Indian government revived
bribe exceeding €50 million. In April
2017, a special CBI court acquitted the couple of the charges.
2. Wakf Board land scam
Sentiments that is connected to
the religion, and the weakest of the weak places where the fingers could be
inserted or put to force the people to keep their mouth shut and move ahead
with the dirty business of creating the corruption and if possible to convert
it into the scam were taught to this nation by the Britishers, and when they
left those elements of tricks were the one’s which the Indians had imbibed with
them, and one of the same that was witnessed after so many a long duration of
the time was this which and about which I’m going to write here.
Pegged to be possibly the biggest
land scam in the country till date, the Karnataka
Wakf Board land scam involves the alleged misappropriation of land
allocation worth Rs 2,000 billion.
In 2012, the Karnataka State Minorities Commission submitted a report alleging
that 27,000 acre of land controlled by the Karnataka Wakf Board had
either been embezzled or allocated illegally. The said property was supposed to
be donated to the underprivileged and
poor through the Muslim charitable trust. Anwar Manippady, Chairman of
the Karnataka State Minorities Commission, said that over 50 percent of
the land has been misappropriated by politicians
and board members. This was supposedly done in collusion with the real estate mafia for a fraction
of its market value under the watch of the Karnataka Wakf Board. Investigation is currently ongoing.
3. Telgi scam
This scam seems to be straight
out of a Hollywood movie. In 2002, Abdul Karim Telgi was charged for
counterfeiting stamp paper in India. He appointed 350 fake agents to
sell stamp papers to banks, insurance companies, and stock brokerage firms. The
scam spread across 12 States and the amount involved was pegged at Rs
200 billion. The investigation
revealed that Telgi enjoyed support from various government departments
that were involved in
the production and sale of high-security stamps. In January 2006, Telgi and
several associates were sentenced to 30 years rigorous imprisonment.
This is the ONLY case and the instance where till
and of today we could see the culprits behind the bar because he was and he had
NO-GODFATHER
to save himself from the blushes but ther remaining even fully knowing that
they are very much into it are roaming scot free as they enjoy the GOD-FATHER and those kind of facilities.
4.
The ‘Coalgate’ scam
Congress in it’s rein from 2004 to 2014 just was flying in the air like the kite flies.The
kite and it’s float in the air is controlled by the one who has it’s thread in
it’s hand. The way the one who holds and controls the thread to control the
floats of the kites, can either lose the kite if that is cut or can lose the
entire kite if that is engaed in the kite war.The same happened with the
Congress . It kept on losing one after the another kite war to it’s supporting
partners from 2009 when the Commies and the Left deserted them. Thereafter there were many who slowly between
the period started deserting them knowing the one who holds the thread that is attached
to the kite that was flying could be cut at any moment by the strong KNIFES of the Indian law. The CONTROLLER, the delicious pasta of Italy also has started
tasting STALE and with that started the indepth cases of all the scams of them
surfacing out and THAT WAS THAT for them.
September 2012 unearthed a scam
that involved bureaucrats, political leaders and several ministers from the
ruling political party. The Comptroller and Auditor General, India’s audit
watchdog, reported inefficient and possibly illegal allocation of coal blocks
between 2004 and 2009. While initially the loss to the exchequer was
pegged at Rs 10.7 lakh crore, the final report stated that the scam amounted to
Rs 1.86 lakh crore. Essentially, the Government of India followed a system of
competitive bidding to allocate coal blocks. However, CAG’s investigation
revealed that the government followed another route that was “ opaque and
subjective ”. Sign up for Newsletters Check out our popular newsletters and
subscribe As a result, CAG noted that both the private and public sector
enterprises paid less, resulting in loss revenue for the government.
5. 2G Spectrum scam
Mobile and the mobile sets if at all that sells the MOST in the
world it sells at India. On an average an Indian has atleast three mobiles to
do with and a very ordinary man ever since these mobiles has come to this
country in 1994-95 from then till now might have changed as many as atleast
four mobiles sets in this country. That speaks the volume of the mobile sales
in India,
Obviously those in the business
to provide the mobile lines for the mobiles to be in the FORE will have the
business over here and many in the field came into being the prominent. This
set the tone and again where there are so much of money that is involved obviously
there will be so much of ugly incident of corruption that would surface and
this is what it had happened.
This scam surfaced when it was
revealed that the government, in 2008, had undercharged mobile telephone
companies for frequency allocation licences. These licences are used to create
2G spectrum subscriptions for cell phones. The Comptroller and Auditor General
of India stated that “ the difference between
the money collected and that mandated to be collected was Rs 1.76 trillion ”.
In February 2012, the
Supreme Court of India declared the allotment of spectrum as “ unconstitutional
and arbitrary ” and cancelled the 122 licences issued in
2008 under A. Raja, then Minister of Communications and IT.
Mr Raja happens to be the BLUE-EYED boy of the HONCHO who formed the DMK and whose legacies are now
ruling that after his demise.Obviously after all that enjoying all the support
from his GODFATHERS
he is roaming LOOM and with any LARGE .
6. Adarsh Housing Society scam
This again is connected with the
defense personnel’s and their well being.The Indian defense actually the one’s
who take on the bullets at the border while fighting and dying that way have
their KITH-AND-KINS standing with a begging bowl in their hands , but those who
command without being at the field and after retirement are the one’s who are
enjoying.They give a national statement and with that they become a CYNOSURE OF ALL THE
EYE and it is for them that the
Government of the day goes ahead for all their well being’s in terms of
providing them the measures for all benefits of their life.
A posh 31-storey building located
in Colaba, Mumbai, was constructed for the welfare of war widows and personnel
of Defence ministry. In 2011, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India
observed that over a period 10 years the society flouted various Environment
ministry rules. It was noted that
politicians, bureaucrats and military officers bent several rules concerning
land ownership, zoning, and floor-space index.
It was also
alleged that members allocated flats to themselves in the cooperative society
below market rates. In 2011, the
Comptroller and Auditor General of India said, The episode of Adarsh
Co-operative Housing Society reveals how a group of select officials, placed in
key posts could subvert rules and regulations in order to grab prime government
land – a public property – for personal benefit. The scam forced the then
Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Ashok Chavan, to resign in 2010.
7. Commonwealth Games scam
Sports as such, the IOA sees
India as a potential nation with all the amenities and the facilities that it
can provide to the athletes coming here for the games, but it does not
allocates and keeps on keeping India at bay for holding these games . It is
because that THE INDIANS ARE SO CORRUPT AND SO
ILL ORGANISED THAT THEY WOULD MAKE A “ JOKE ” OF ALL THE VEENTS THAT
COULD BE HELD AHERE AS THEY SAY AND FEEL.
The Commonwealth Games scam took
India by storm in 2010 involving a pilferage of around Rs 70,000 crore. Since its inception, the games were tangled in a maze of corrupt deals.
This included inflated contracts, criminal conspiracy, cheating, and forgery.
And in the centre of the corruption was Suresh Kalmadi, the then Pune
Lok Sabha MP. Investigation suggested
that the organizing committee ran as a sort of “ badmaash company,” and he was
charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Kalmadi allegedly awarded a Rs
141-crore contract to Swiss Timing for its timing equipment, a deal inflated by
Rs 95 crore. Further, it was reported that Indian athletes were forced to
stay in shabby apartments instead of the flats allotted to them by the
authorities. The case is currently under investigation.
8. Satyam scam
The IT revolution here in this country
started and took place in the start of the eighties and it BOOMED and MUSHROOMED from 1995 to about 2011 before it started taking a
downward curve and then loosing the sheen.
It is in this period that many
and most laid their hands on the IT sector to make a BLUE out of it and there were many
who failed as an unit of enterprise to fly from there to the top . One of the
many who came into this business were the SATYAMS who at last prove that the name
by which they were carrying on their
business and an reality were quite anti-podes and OPPOSITE to one another.
Dubbed as ‘ India’s
Enron scandal ’, the 2009 corporate scam shook the Indian
investors and shareholders community. Ramalinga Raju, the Chairman of Satyam
Computer Services, confessed that he had falsified the company's accounts,
inflating the revenue and profit. The fraud involved Rs 14,000
crore. The CBI investigated
the case and Raju, along with 10 other members faced imprisonment. Tech
Mahindra took over the company.
9.
Punjab National Bank fraud case
One of the most recent scandals, the Punjab National Bank fraud
case is about the fraudulent letter of
undertaking worth Rs. 14,356.84 crore (US$ 2.1 billion) that was issued by the
Punjab National Bank at its branch office at Brady House in Fort, Mumbai, making
the bank liable for the amount. This fraud was masterminded by jeweler
and designer Nirav Modi in collusion with two PNB officials.
After discovering the fraud,
PNB filed a complaint with the CBI wherein
it was alleged that Nirav, Ami Modi, Nishal Modi and Mehul Choksi, committed the offence of
cheating PNB and causing a huge financial loss.
Modi is on the Interpol’s most wanted list for
committing the criminal conspiracy, since February 2018. Currently Modi is in
UK, and is seeking political asylum in Britain though the Indian government has
officially asked for his extradition.
The Enforcement Directorate has
begun attaching assets of the accused and is seeking to immediate confiscation
under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance. On a later date, CBI named key
officials Usha Anantha Subramanian, former CEO of PNB, executive directors KV
Brahmaji Rao and Sanjiv Sharan in a charge sheet holding them responsible for
failure to implement several circular and caution notices issued by the RBI
regarding the reconciliation of SWIFT messages and core banking systems.
10 . Kargil coffin scandal-:
Again the Defense
and it’s entire body comes here and comes in between .Defense in India is NOT
a JOKE but the system and the manner that the defense is being played
with and the money that these MOST-CORRUPT-POLITICIAN play with
is even WORST than anything that could be bracketed as a MERE
JOKE- these are most HEINOUS than the CRIMINALISED
joke.
Pic - :The Kargil Coffin
PASTEURISE is what we see the Indian defense that
it become when any scams are related with it and the politicians as well as the
middleman who are are attached to the politicians make that without any REMORSE.
Former Defence Minister of India George Fernandes who passed away
on 29 January 2019 at the age of 88, was implicated in a corruption case called
as the ‘ Coffin Gate ’ exposed by a sting operation by Tehelka, a news
portal. It may be recalled that the late Fernandes was the defence minister in
the Vajpayee-led NDA
government when India fought against — Pakistan in the Kargil war in 1999 and emerged
victorious.
The then government had ordered
to bring the bodies of martyred soldiers in a flag-draped aluminum casket and
had signed a deal with US-based Buritrol
and Baizarces for the coffins.
The Comptroller and Auditor
General of India’s report had found several flaws in the procurement of the
caskets, which were said to be of very low quality and highly priced. The
caskets were purchased from Buitron
and Baiza, a company based in America that rendered funeral services.
The then ruling government National Democratic Alliance had purchased 500
caskets worth $2500 each which was
presumed to be thirteen times the original amount.
A charge sheet was filed by the
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a CBI court in Delhi and a case was
registered against Fernandes, for alleged abuse of official position for
personal gains and several others. This scandal was met with the widespread protests from other
political parties such as Congress, which led to Fernandes resignation as
defence minister during the course of the investigation.
However, the CBI in its
investigation could not prove Fernandes’ involvement and the special CBI court
eventually gave him a clean chit in 2013.
The special court could not find any evidence against other accused and
discharged them. Army officers named in the charge sheet were Major General Arun Roye, Colonel SK
Malik and Colonel FB Singh, Victor Baiza, a US National who supplied
the aluminium casket and body bags to the Indian Army.
11. The Hawala Money Laundering Scam::
Also called the Jain
Diaries case or the Hawala scam was an Indian political and financial
scandal involving payments allegedly sent by politicians (black money) through
four hawala brokers, namely the Jain brothers.
In 1991, an arrest linked to militants in Kashmir led to a
raid on hawala brokers, revealing evidence of large-scale payments to national
politicians. Those
accused included L. K. Advani, V. C. Shukla, P. Shiv Shankar, Sharad Yadav,
Balram Jakhar, and Madan Lal Khurana.
The entire list contained
politicians from the BJP, Congress and independent MLAs and MPs, with amounts
varying between Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 7.5 crore. Many were acquitted in 1997 and
1998, partly because the hawala records (including diaries) were judged in
court to be inadequate as the main evidence.
A country whose GDP actually
is lower than the GDP of Nepal and Bangladesh at this moment when it comes to the GDP per annum for the last three
years, where still 77% of it’s
populous remains behind the poverty line, where the rate of the employment is
falling down years by years, where the Banking system is failing and falling in
such a manner where the retired one’s are finding it very HARD to live with the penuries that they have it with them
as for means to survive, where the education comes a FULL-STOP for those
who are brilliant of the BRILLIANT
but cannot fund them for higher education , where the JOBS are given by discrimination and by the REMAINS of the
CASTE and CREEDISM, and as the Covid - 19 had and has indicted by the points of the finger, that the REAL-BEDS-TO-THE-PATIENTS in the hospital in the country at present is LESS than HALF-PER-ONE-THOUSAND people, , one really shudders to think when we call that - :
WE WILL BE THE SUPER
POWER OF THE WORLD
Super Power for what. I can visualize
and can say that – FOR DESTRUCTING OURSELF in every manner.
Regards
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Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Mr Shyamal
Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received
his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur
and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher
Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed
his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up
to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has
authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble
Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It published by
Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office
Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in 2012. He
has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .
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