<b>CBI arrests minister kin</b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Chennai, April 25: The CBIâs anti-corruption wing has arrested the Chennai regional passport officer, who is the daughter-in-law of finance minister K. Anbazhagan, straining the DMKâs ties with the Congress.
Sumathi Ravichandran was arrested along with travel agent Fathima on a passport applicantâs complaint that the agent had demanded Rs 9,000 as bribe to speed up the process. Sumathi had colluded in the matter, the CBI claimed.
âThe bribe amount of Rs 9,000 was recovered from the office of M/s. Ahmed World Travels. The said passport application of P. Lakshmanan submitted by Fathima was endorsed by the deputy passport officer, Chennai, based on the specific instructions from Smt. Sumathi Ravichandran,â a CBI press release said.
<b>Sumathiâs father-in-law is the number two in the DMK and the state government. He has complained to chief minister M. Karunanidhi that the CBI could not have arrested Sumathi without clearance from the Union personnel ministry, held by the Congress.</b>
Sumathi, an Indian Postal Service officer, was appointed RPO in 2004 with the blessings of then Union communications minister Dayanidhi Maran of the DMK.
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He is not worried about corruption but blaming others.
CBI is corrupt, so are politicians.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>India ranks fifth in âdirty moneyâ outflow</b>
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
In the wake of the issue of illegal outflow and parking of huge sums of money in foreign banks by Indians raised by Leader of Opposition LK Advani and other Opposition leaders, comes the latest report by Global Financial Integrity (GFI) that has ranked India fifth among 127 countries in illicit financial outflows. According to the report, the total illicit financial <b>outflow from India was US $27.3 billion per year (during the period 2002-2006).</b>
The GFI is a study group operating from Washington and supported by Ford Foundation with an aim to bring âfinancial transparencyâ and expose âdirty moneyâ by advocating a curb on tax havens.
The study classifies the illegal outflow of money into two groups: ânormalisedâ and ânon-normalisedâ channels. India ranks fifth in the normalised category and sixth in non-normalised category. The GFI report says the total range of illegal money flow is $850 billion to 1.06 trillion per year.<b> In both categories Mainland China (excluding Hong Kong) ranks the first with more than $230 billion illegal outflow.</b>
âEconomic model estimates are ânormalisedâ or filtered, which yields the lower end of a range of estimated illicit financial flows. In contrast ânon-normalisedâ method of deriving illicit financial flows for a country includes all cases where estimates of illicit financial flows were encountered, no matter how small and even if only for one year out of the five studied. This method yields the higher end of a range of estimated illicit financial flows,â says GFI, explaining the criteria for tracking the illegal flow.
The study says the Asian region accounts for the 50 per cent of the illegal money outflow and Europe accounts for 17 per cent, due to the huge illegal operations in Russia. According to GFI, the study on Africaâs illegal money outflow was basically âdeprivedâ of ânon-availabilityâ data.
In normalised category, <b>China is followed by Saudi Arabia (USD 55 billion), Mexico ($46 billion), Russia ($35 billion). In non-normalised category, the position of these counties remains the same up to fourth rank; Malaysia is placed fifth ($30 billion), pushing India to sixth rank.</b>
In normalised category, India is followed by Kuwait, Malaysia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Poland and Hungary. In non-normalised category, India is followed by Kuwait, Venezuela, Bolivia, Indonesia and Philippines.
The illegal outflows involve activities such as corruption (bribery and embezzlement of national wealth), proceeds of illicit business that becomes illicit when transported across borders in violation of laws and regulatory frameworks. âIllicit financial outflows occur through two channels - the clandestine use of international banking system to sent money out of a country captured by the Hot Money (Narrow) and World Bank Residual models and trade mis-invoicing which generates illicit funds that are shifted abroad,â points out the GFI report.
The Hot Money (Narrow) model estimates illicit financial flows by focusing strictly on the net errors and omissions line-item in a countryâs external accounts. The net errors and omissions figure balances credits and debits in a countryâs external accounts and reflects unrecorded capital flows and statistical errors in measurement. A persistently large and negative net errors and omissions figure is interpreted as an indication of illicit financial outflows, explains the report.
The World Bank Residual Model measures a countryâs source of funds (inflows of capital) against its recorded use (outflows and/or expenditure of capital). Source of funds includes increases in net external indebtedness of the public sector and the net inflow of foreign direct investment. Use of funds includes the current account deficit that is financed by the capital account flows and additions to central bank reserves. An excess source of funds over the recorded use(or expenditure) points to a loss of unaccounted- for capital use and as such, indicates illicit financial outflow, says GFI.
The `Trade Mis-invoicing Modelâ has long been recognised as a major conduit for illicit financial flows, the underlying motivation being that residents can illicitly acquire foreign assets by over-invoicing imports and under-invoicing exports. Discrepancies in partner-country trade data, after adjusting for the cost of freight and insurance, which imply over-invoicing of imports and /or under-invoicing exports, indicates illicit flows, points out GFI on arriving conclusions.
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Asked if the decision of dropping the name of Quattrocchi from the Interpol's Red Corner notice was wrong, he said "the government has all the rights...the CBI is not an independent agency. It has to carry out whatever the government says. You may not agree with it but there is no option than to carry out whatever they say."
Source: PTI
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.as...umentid=2998602
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
<b>Quattrocchi walks free, courtesy Govt</b>
The Congress got it from left and right on Tuesday as CBIâs recommendation to withdraw Red Corner Notice (RCN) against Bofors scam accused Ottavio Quattrocchi created a political furore, arming the BJP with fresh ammunition in the midst of the Lok Sabha poll.
From the BJP to Left and Mayawati to Nitish Kumar - all smelled a âpolitical conspiracyâ behind the CBIâs decision â that, according to Leader of opposition LK Advani, highlighted the uncertainty in the Congress about their chances to return to power.
Accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi of colluding in the conspiracy to forever bury the truth about Bofors, Advani said in Ahmedabad: <b>âThe Congress was not going to come to power. Else, they would have waited for the election to get over and then take this step</b>.â Advani went on to predict that the ruling party would be âpunished for its sinsâ in the same way as in 1989.
Meanwhile, an application has been moved in the Supreme Court challenging the CBIâs decision. The urgent application filed by advocate Ajay Agrawal sought the direction of the apex court to stay the operation of any withdrawal of the RCN against Quattrocchi who has not submitted himself to Indian court in connection with the Bofors case.
Agrawal, who had earlier moved the apex court in January 2006 against the defreezing of Quattrocchiâs bank account in London, sought issuance of Red Corner Notice again. Agrawal said the Interpol should be informed immediately so that Quattrocchi could be nabbed and produced before an Indian court.
The development came as a big embarrassment for the Congress and the BJP did not waste time in raising the anti-corruption pitch. BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley said if elected to power the NDA Government would constitute a commission to probe into cases wherein the CBI colluded with the high-profile accused to bail them out. This commission would also suggest remedial measures on how the independence and autonomy of the CBI can be restored.
<b>âQuattrocchi has been a close friend of the Congress leadership. At the time of its departure, the Government is giving a farewell gift to the citizen of a privileged country. It is almost like a farewell gift to a nation-in-law,â </b>Jaitley told reporters here.
Advani, who described the latest development as the last nail in the coffin of judicial process in respect of the Bofors scandal, also promised to examine the Quattrocchi issue after being voted to powerâ.
<b>âIt is obvious that he (Manmohan Singh) and his Government have acted under instruction from 10 Janpath. His silence over the past five years on the systematic misuse of the CBI and the Law Ministry confirms his guilt,â </b>Advani told reporters in Ahmedabad.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati who had a blow-hot-blow-cold relationship with the CBI also shared Advaniâs sentiments that the latest development was an <b>âact of desperationâ by the Congress</b>.
<b>âOur Government demands from the Centre to immediately revoke the CBI decision to give clean chit to Italian businessman Quattrocchi, who is an accused in Bofors payoff scam. Strict action should be taken against culprits of the scam,â </b>she told reporters in Lucknow
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Tells court it needs more time to decide on Q
<b>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), coming under public pressure, on Thursday decided to leave the matter of Bofors payoff case accused Ottavio Quattrocchi open-ended in the court. </b>âThe investigating agency failed to get Quattrocchi extradited from Malaysia and Argentina. On the opinion of the Attorney General of India, the Red Corner Notice (RCN) was revoked against him on November 25, 2008. Now, the CBI is considering various options available to it,â submitted Additional Solicitor General PP Malhotra.
He, however, sidestepped the question put to him by the court as to what options were left with the prosecution in the case and sought two months time to file the status report. The court has adjourned the matter till September 8.
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Indian Embassies and CBI works for 10 Janpath. Do they fall under traitors or low life?
<b>Germany has given tax evaders' details to India: Government </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The finance ministry revealed this in a 27-page affidavit submitted to the apex court in response to a lawsuit accusing the Congress-led government of doing precious little to retrieve Indian black money stashed abroad, worth an estimated Rs.70 trillion.
In its affidavit, the government also told the court that after persistent efforts in collaboration with international community Switzerland agreed to make its secretive banking laws and norms more transparent in tune with the global standards.
Priya V.K. Singh, director of the department of revenue under the finance ministry, told the court that following its repeated efforts since Feb 27 last year, the government got the information on Indians having with secret accounts in <b>LGT Bank in Liechtenstein March 18 this year. </b>
The government, however, added in its affidavit that the information procured cannot be made public owing to the condition of strict confidentiality under which it was procured.
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Now Indian Embassy staff will use diplomatic package(These packages are exempt from any scan) to transfer loot to somewhere else.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->â<b>Govt submitted forged papersâ</b>
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
<b>File right documents, says Swiss Govt</b>
The UPA Government had submitted âforgedâ documents to Switzerland Government in a case regarding deposit of black money in Swiss banks, a private TV channel reported on Monday.
The case relates to stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, who is charged with parking nearly US $6 billion in Swiss banks. In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, the Finance Ministry had named Khan as one of the three Indians who had stashed away huge sums in Swiss banks.
<b>CNN-IBN quoted Falco Galli, spokesperson of Ministry of Justice, Switzerland, saying that documents submitted by the Indian Government in 2007 about the case were forged. </b>
Pointing this out to the Indian authorities, the Swiss Government had asked for the right documents and a confirmation that the case against Khan is a criminal one, Galli said.
Following this in March 2007, India submitted additional documents but, according to the Swiss official, they did not meet the necessary âspecificationsâ.
Even as the UPA Government has claimed it was doing everything possible to bring back the black money, the Swiss Government spokesperson said there has been no communication from the Indian Government in the last two years in this case.
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That is why COngress led Indian Governament had no credibility all over world, that is why every jack and Harry gets up and slap them. That is why they are also treated as soft state because they have so many skeleton in closet.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I was surprised to see that Times of India, was not very much interested to publish Indian views connected with the Indian Black Money deposited in Switzerland, but for the reasons best known to it, advocated in favour of Swiss Authorities, by publishing a News Report, under heading 'Swiss banks cannot act as any country's tax inspector' on 17 May 2009, which was prepared by TNN Reporter Mr. Sachin Parashar. I am raising the issue of Indian Black Money in Swiss Banks, since long time. In respect to my hue and cry news was also published by the Economic Times in eighties under heading âShareholderâs Rightâ, prepared by (Late) Mr. Samarjeet Ghosh, from Pune, who was victimized and transferred from Kolkata to Pune, for publishing my Interviews, by the Times of India Group of Newspapers under the Large Amount of the Advertisements from one Monopoly House.
In 2005, I make study on the basis of the documents available in websites of Swiss Authorities, and mentioned in my Online Petition addressed to Mr. Kofi A. Annan, the then Secretary General of UNO, to justify that black money deposited in Swiss Banks are just not the subject matter of Tax-Evasion, rather very serious matter concerned to Corruptions, Terrorism and organised crimes, and causing severe damages to developments of victim countries in clear violation of the basic objectives and principles described in U N Charter for international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all and seriously infringing the fundamental rights of the citizen of other countries by seriously affecting the economical growths, thus I wanted that SECURITY COUNCIL SHOULD IMPOSE SANCTION AGAINST SWISS GOVERNMENT FOR BANKING SECRECY WHICH PROVIDING OPEN PROTECTIONS TO ILLEGAL MONEY OF TERRORISTS, CORRUPT POLITICIANS ETC., FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, CAUSING SEVERE THREATS TO ITS LEGITIMATE DEVELOPMENTS and posted at: http://www.petitiononline.com/milap/petition.html Â
I also mentioned in the aforesaid Online Petition uploaded in June, 2005, based on available figures in the first quarter of 2005, from the Websites of the Swiss Authorities âInvestment from foreign customers in Asset Management accounted for a share of approximately 57% of all assets held, 42.1% came from private clients and 47.5% from institutional investors. Commercial clients accounted for the remaining 10.4%.â Swiss Authorities admitted that: âSwiss financial sector manages roughly a third of all worldwide financial assets invested abroad. It consequently holds a leading global position in the rapidly growing asset management sector. Assets in customer accounts managed by Swiss banks as of end of 2001 amounted to CHF 3,320 billion.â Switzerland also has the world's 5th largest bond market and accounts for more than 1/4 of all the money flowing into the global hedge fund industry. Such 57% which arising to CHF 1,881 billion in Foreign Asset Management is invested by the foreign clients certainly from developing countries. Reportedly rest 43% is also not from the Swiss Citizens. Its important part accounted from admitted unclaimed assets in the Swiss Financial sector belongs to Corrupt Politicians, bureaucrats and unscrupulous businessmen from developing countries.  Â
Even as per the then roaming report a file is exists in Indiaâs Central Vigilance Commission, (certainly they will not admit the same), which I also mentioned in my aforesaid online Petition, and indicating that amount between about Rs16,00,00,00,00,00,000 and Rs.50,00,00,00,00,00,000 (16 and 50 Lakhs of Crores of Rupees) ($US 800 Billions Dollars or so) of the Black money from India are deposited in Swiss and other foreign Banks by the Corrupt Politicians, Bureaucrats and unscrupulous Businessmen. Since, control of the Government is not free from embracement from the Powerful Corrupt Politicians, whose money might be in Swiss Banks, as a result, Government of India is not initiating the matter in appropriate manner.
Therefore, by publishing following News Item, under heading 'Swiss banks cannot act as any country's tax inspector' 16 May 2009, 0339 hrs IST, Sachin Parashar, TNN, the Times of India not performed its duty as Member of Fourth Estate of INdian Democracy:-
NEW DELHI: As India awaits the poll results with bated breath, the controversy over black money stashed away abroad was further stoked by the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) whose spokesperson told TOI on Friday that Swiss banks cannot work as any country's tax inspector and that the association has requested the Swiss authorities to examine each request carefully to make sure a real crime is involved before agreeing upon revealing a client's identity or assets.
The spokesperson also rubbished reports that it had ever issued a report on black money deposited in Swiss banks by Indians which he said was being passed around like the Gospel truth.
Unlike in India , tax evasion is not looked upon as a crime by Swiss banks. The SBA spokesperson, James Nason, while replying to a query from this paper, said that taxes are the personal responsibility of citizens and not banks. "If they suspect an existing client is using his account for criminal purposes the banks are obliged by law to freeze the account and make a report to the authorities. However, it is not the job of Swiss banks to play the role of a foreign country's tax inspector and find out whether that person has paid all his taxes,'' said Nason, even as he refrained from making any comment on Pune resident Hassan Ali Khan who is alleged to have deposited $8 billion in secret accounts and whose case has been taken up by Indian authorities with their Swiss counterparts.
The right to privacy, he said, in Switzerland can be suspended by a judge when a criminal investigation is underway and that the Swiss authorities can order and authorise a Swiss bank to deliver the relevant account information.
Nason also scoffed at the figures being quoted by political parties in India on the black money allegedly lying in Swiss banks saying that these were meant only for the election campaign. The BJP has suggested that the actual amount could be as high as $1.4 trillion. "At best, these are speculation, and at worst pure fantasy. No one ever gives a source for these figures, neither does anyone explain the methodology used to arrive at them and I strongly suspect they have been contrived to serve the purposes of an election campaign,'' said Nason, as he wondered if there is not a single penny of Indian "black" money in London, New York, Hong Kong or Singapore.
"Swiss banks have no interest at all in attracting dirty money and well-established procedures exist to identify, freeze and report funds of possible criminal origin and also to give international legal assistance to foreign countries investigating crimes,'' he added.
"We have noticed, however, that in some countries, and, of course, India is not one of them, where justice is a commodity purchased by the kilo like potatoes and the system of international judicial assistance in criminal matters has been abused to frame, damage or destroy political or commercial rivals. We have thus urged the Swiss authorities to examine each request carefully to make sure a real crime is involved,'' he said.
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Corrupt and soft state
Hiranmay Karlekar
To win the war on terror, radical reform is needed
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reportedly told the Congress Working Committee on May 17 that dealing with terrorism and the present economic slowdown would be the new Governmentâs foremost priorities. In coping with terrorism, the Government has before it measures already identified in the light of the experience of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai (November 26-29, 2008).
While their implementation is important, <b>it will be difficult to curb terrorism if corruption remains all pervasive in the civil administration and the police forces.</b>
It is easy to understand the reasons for saying this. Para-military forces like the Central Reserve Police Force play an important role in combating terrorism. Much would, therefore, depend on the physical fitness, intelligence and fighting ability of the men and women comprising the force.<b> The recent discovery of corruption in recruitment to the CRPF, which has led to the arrest of several senior police officers, raises serious questions about the quality of the personnel inducted into it. Things are even worse in the State police forces where, more often than not, bribery holds the key to recruitment.</b> Induction of people who lack the qualities needed in good policemen but have greased palms for their jobs, leads to incompetence, and corruption to recover their âinvestmentâ, which seriously affects the fight against terrorism.
<b>Investigations are poorly conducted, charges are incompetently framed and evidence is abysmally marshalled. Not surprisingly, there have been cases of wrong arrests as well as release of the guilty for lack of evidence.</b> A striking example is the release on May 11 of Mohammad Sadique Israr Shaikh who had been accused of involvement in the serial bombings in suburban trains in Mumbai on July 11, 2006, which killed 209 people and injured 829. A special court hearing cases under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, ordered his release after Mumbai Policeâs Anti-Terrorism Squad said it found âno sufficient material evidence to indicate his involvementâ in the bombings. <b>A wrong arrest in respect of the serial bombings which sent shock waves throughout the country reflects very poorly on Mumbai Police; so does the release of a terrorist who has been guilty because of the policeâs inability to find evidence.</b> Shaikhâs has not been the only case of its kind.
Corruption enables terrorists to infiltrate into the country. <b>According to Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the sole survivor among those involved in the Mumbai attack, he and other terrorists, travelling by the trawler MV Kuber, which they had hijacked, had been intercepted 556 km from Mumbai by an Indian coastal patrol boat. They had escaped by flashing fishermenâs identity cards issued by the Gujarat Fisheries Department which had earlier been caught issuing fake identity cards! </b>There have been other instances. Belal (Lalu Mian), a 23-year-old Bangladeshi national, who was arrested in West Bengalâs Basirhat district on April 25, 2000, had helped those who had, on December 24, 1999, hijacked to Kandahar, Indian Airlines flight IC-814 from Kathmandu to Delhi, to enter India. Engaged in smuggling arms and ammunition, including RDX explosives, he had been infiltrating terrorists into West Bengal for several years.
<b>Several Customs and police personnel with links with smugglers facilitated the landing on Indian shores of RDX explosives used in the serial bombings in Mumbai on March 12, 1993.</b> Corruption also enables terrorists to avoid detection and acquire false identities by securing important documents like driving licences and passports. <b>Ibrahim Athar, a resident of Bahawalpur in Pakistan and the leader of the gang that hijacked Indian Airlines Flight IC-814, had managed to get two passports for himself from the Regional Passport Office in Mumbai. Another hijacker, widely known as Shakir, had got a passport from the same RPO on September 7, 1999, under the name of Farooq Abdul Azis Siddiqui who was shown as a resident of Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh. Aftab Ansari, the man behind the abduction of leather merchant Partha Pratim Roy Barman on July 25, 2001, and the hit-and-run attack which killed four policemen in front of the American Center in Kolkata on January 22, 2002, had no difficulty in getting a passport under the name of Farhan Mallik.</b>
The moral is simple: A soft and corrupt state cannot win the war against terrorism.
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Blank Passports always disappear from Indian Embassies worldwide.
Plain and simple reason, staff are selling them. They use diplomatic packets to all shady work.
No investigation, everything under rug. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
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min translation: In Gajiabad, corruption has been given official recognition.
<b>BJP demands probe into purchase of bullet-proof jackets used on 26/11</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi, June 6 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded a high-level inquiry into the allegation that the <b>Maharashtra government provided sub-standard bulletproof jackets to Mumbai Police officials including those who were killed while battling the 26/11 terrorists.
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It quoted his brother Shishir Karkare as saying that he had seen blood on the jacket, which, he said, proved that the AK-47 bullets had gone through it. </b>
The BJP spokesperson said: 'Hemant Karkare's brother Shishir Karkare had seen his brother in the hospital and this is a direct evidence of the (low quality of) wretched vests.
'When (party leader L.K.) Advani demanded an inquiry, (Home Minister) P. <b>Chidambaram said there is no need for an inquiry</b>,' he said, reiterating the demand for a probe.
Advani, participating Friday in the debate on the president's address to the joint session of parliament, said in the Lok Sabha that an inquiry commission should be set up to probe the Nov 26 terrorist attack.
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Elected by fraud is showing his arrogrance.
<b>BJP smells a scam âlinkâ</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi, June 6: The BJP today asked Manmohan Singh to clarify alleged links between defence scam accused Ramesh Nambiar and an official in the Prime Ministerâs Office.
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad did not identify the PMO official by name but described him as âa very, very senior civil servantâ.
<b>He claimed that Nambiar was close to this official and enjoyed free access to the PMO.</b>
Later, BJP sources added that the PMO official had received an extension after the election results.
Nambiar, an additional general manager with Air India, is an accused in the Rs <b>6,000-crore artillery purchase scam unearthed </b>by the CBI, in connection with which former Ordnance Factory Board chief <b>Sudipta Ghosh was arrested in Calcutta last month</b>.
Nambiar was a frequent visitor to the PMO, Prasad said, adding that the BJP had found out that the records of his visits were being erased. Prasad said the Prime Minister should explain Nambiarâs links with and access to the PMO.
Nambiar used to be private secretary to Suresh Kalmadi in the P.V. Narasimha Rao ministry. He was sacked from the Commonwealth Games management panel after the CBI raided his Mumbai flat and confiscated Rs 23 lakh in connection with the defence scam probe.
Nambiar is charged with helping Ghosh, who retired in April, open a bank account in Singapore to stash money received as kickbacks in defence deals.
Prasad, who demanded a time-bound and thorough probe, said Nambiar was not senior enough in Air India to even get an appointment with the civil aviation secretary, and <b>so it was surprising that he enjoyed free access to the PMO.</b>
<b>The BJP leader said entry into the PMO is governed by a protocol so strict that even MPs have to seek an appointment. An entry is made even when ministers arrive for cabinet meetings.</b>
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PM must be getting his share.
Telgi sentenced to seven years RI, fined Rs 1.3 crore
A Delhi court sentenced fake stamp papers scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi to seven years rigorous imprisonment and imposed a total fine of Rs 1.30 crore in three separate cases.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Bansal pronounced the sentence against Telgi and other accused who were produced before the court through the video conferencing.
Telgi, who is lodged at Bangalore jail, had pleaded guilty during the previous hearings in April and May this year in the cases registered with different police stations in the capital following recovery of fake stamp papers with face value of over Rs 213 crore.
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<!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--> The solution lies in dismantling the permit raj which exists in the name of inspections, sanctions and approvals that have become tools of extortion. It has become a common joke within the education sector that these days things are not just decided on a case to case basis, but on a âsuitcase to suitcaseâ basis as well.
A few raids by the CBI will hardly do anything to mitigate the problem of corruption. On the other hand, we have a legal system which is loaded in favour of the wrongdoers. Saying that the law will take its course is laughable as it is going to take nearly three centuries to dispose off the 32 million cases pending in our courts. It is time we liberalised our education sector. Policies should be enacted to open up the entire sector and conditions should be created for a levelled playing field. At the same time we need to simplify our legal system so that the wrongdoers get their just desserts.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/191839/Who-wil...the-guards.html
If they dismantle Permit Raj, then how corrupt Babus will send their kids to private colleges in West or handle wife shopping expense or travel with mistress (hotel and plane tickets). These Babus need Permit Raj for survival.
These babus are parasites/leeches.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Why should I resign, asks defiant Buta</b>
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PTI | New Delhi
A defiant Buta Singh on Saturday refused to resign from his post in the wake of the bribery scandal in which his son Sarobjit was arrested by the CBI, claiming that he could have<b> "confessed under pressure"</b>.
"Resign? Why should I resign?" Singh shot back at reporters on being asked whether he will step down as Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes after his son was arrested on the charge of demanding a bribe of Rs one crore from a Nashik-based contractor for closing a case against him.
<b>"I am chairperson of a constitutional forum. And I am capable, so why should I resign?"</b> he said.
When told that his son had confessed to taking the bribe amount and said that Buta Singh knew about the transaction, the former minister said, "He (Sarobjit) must have naturally made it (confession) under pressure."
<b>Singh maintained that his son was "by all means, innocent".</b>
He said though he was not against any investigation, he doubted the integrity of the CBI.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bap corrupt beta maha corrupt.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>CBI raids house of Buta's son, recovers three weapons</b>
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PTI | New Delhi
<b>CBI on Saturday conducted searches at the house of Buta Singh's son here and recovered three unlicensed fire arms and few live cartridges</b>.
The searches were conducted a day after CBI arrested <b>Sarobjit Singh alias Sweety for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs one crore from a Nashik-based contractor</b> for settling a case against him in the National Commission for Scheduled Castes headed by his father.
CBI sources said the agency will also interrogate Buta Singh as part of its investigations into the graft case registered in Mumbai.
<b>A case under the Arms Act has been registered against Sweety at the Nizamuddin police station</b>.
<b>Reacting to the seizure, Buta Singh said his son had the licences for all the weapons recovered from his house during the raid</b>.
<b>"The licences are there.Only my son knows where they are. When he comes (out of custody), he will produce them.</b>" <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now Buta will create licences bribing some Babus.
<b>More of Buta's kin in CBI net</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mumbai The CBI was likely to question the father-in-law of Sarobjit Singh, son of Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Buta Singh, as the agency claimed calls from his cellphone were traced to alleged hawala dealers. The CBI has also<b> sealed five shops in Mumbai belonging to the alleged hawala dealers Madan Solanki and Dukhsingh Chauhan,</b> who is an accused in the bribery case against Sarobjit Singh and is on the run, and the material seized from there has been handed over to the Enforcement Directorate for investigations.
"We might question Sarobjit Singh's father-in-law. According to investigations, he used his father-in-law's mobile to make calls to hawala operators and other accused,"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now why Queen is after Buta Singh? or Is it Pranab sweet revenge?
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