12-05-2005, 10:15 PM
<b>Sonia Volcker-gate: decimation of the Congress Party and putting nation's foreign policy on sale</b>
<b>Section 1. All President's men, Volcker-Antonia, financial crimes and national security</b>
This has all the makings of a best-seller and a gripping movie from Bollywood involving princely families, Italian and Swiss companies, international wheeler-dealers and high stakes in geopolitics. But the tragedy is that, apart from glaring indications of criminal wrong-doing which the criminal justice system of India should deal with in due course, the nation's financial security and foreign policy has been compromised by the transformation of the Congress Party under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi (aka Antonia Maino) into a multi-national trading enterprise.
What has happened with all the money acquired? Business expansion and diversification. Sources alleged that just after the deal, Jagat Singh began making several investments, like in the liquor business in Punjab. What was formerly Masefield Coal became Pragma Energy SA of Italy with an office in Madras (Chennai); ENEL.IT obtained 51% share in Pragma Energy SA, in June 2001. (Kapital CHF 4 million).
Sonia Gandhi (aka Antonia Maino) was not alone in the Volcker-Congress Party scandal which is developing into a criminal case. She was the sutradhari who (1) initiated the transaction with the first conversations with former Iraqi vice-president Taha Ramadan who visited India on November 27, 2000, and Natwar Singh accompanied Congress president Sonia Gandhi to the meeting with him. After this there was talk that during the delegation's visit, the oil minister met Natwar separately; (2) approved the travel of a Congress Party delegation led by Natwar Singh whose travel costs were borne by the Congress Party; and (3) also wrote a letter to Saddam Hussain which was delivered by Natwar Singh. Now, Congress Party is named as a non-contracting beneficiary of oil voucher coupons. The initition of deal and involvement through the entire transaction are continuous and complete.
Fifty-three years ago, in 1952, when I attended Jawaharlal Nehru's election meeting in Penukonda, for the first general elections of the Republic of India, I had the feeling, as an 8th grade student, that he represented a Congress Party which actively participated in the freedom struggle inspired by stalwarts like Mahatma Gandhi, Aurobindo Ghose and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. There was an aura about the Party which fought against the foreign colonial regime and asked for swarajyam. Is Republic of Bharat (Bharatiya Ganatantra) now being subjected to loot through means other than colonization?
Today, after fifty-three years, if these great leaders return to Bharatam, they wouldn't be able to recognize the Congress Party.
It is no longer a Party working for the people and for governance in swarajyam. It has been led into abyss by a lady called Antonia Maino (aka Sonia Gandhi) transforming the Party into a multi-national business enterprise and putting the nation's foreign policy for sale in foreign exchange currency (US Dollars).
Nation's foreign policy, nation's financial integrity, nation's security has been seriously compromised by a Congress Party led by Antonia Maino.
This should be a cause for deep concern not merely to those who are members of this political party but to all bharatiya who believe that they have achieved swarajyam and can live with swaabhimaan in this great, free nation. How could the Party compromise the nation's independent foreign policy for the sake of the crumbs offered by a foreign state? Thus the key issues are NOT whether Volcker's report is tainted, whether the UN oil-for-food programme is tainted, or whether there is the hand of the big super-cop behind all this. The issue is: has the Congress Party transformed itself into a foreign-policy dealer and oil-dealer through a set of smart operatives? Talks about Natwar Singh are mere diversions, making him a scapegoat to protect, from charges of criminal misdemeanor, some other entity, namely the Congress Party.
This is a special case of corruption; normally corruption cases point to speed-moneys for achieving favourable decisions on contracts. In this Volcker-Antonia case, the corruption case places the nation's foreign policy on the trading table.
The company she keeps also constitutes a national security risk. The support taken by the Congress Party from CPI-M which is trying to shield Sonia Gandhi from the Volcker charges of financial impropriety, is ominous since the functionaries of this Party travel for guidance to China, giving the impressions that their loyalties are trans-national. In a nation governed by laws, long arm of criminal justice system should reach out,apprehend and bring to book, the financial criminals who have violated the laws of the land. (Criminal breach of trust, corruption, violation of Foreign Currency Management Act and Foreign Currencies Regulation Act).
This reads like a big-business spy thriller. Since the polity in Bharatam has been substantially criminalized, many law-makers will comprehend, with ease, the impressive nature of the operations masterminded by the Congress Party. A detailed dossier is attached with references and URLs which will call for very careful reading to unravel the Congress Party as an efficient and also effective business enterprise. (Efficient, because of the clock-like precisions of the delegation work; effective because Masefield AG did lift the oil using a Letter of Credit of M/s Vitol Financers (with an office in Mumbai) to enable Masefield Holding Company to lift the oil. Masefield holding lifts the oil. Natwar Singh and Congress Party get the oil voucher coupons as non-contracting beneficiaries.)
Congress Party parades itself as peoples' party and Sonia Gandhi is the President of the Party. Citizens of India, that is Bharat, are entitled to ask for public accountability of both the Party and the President of the Party.
Congress Party is an old Party and naturally has a number of collaborators. Hence, this account will drop a series of names with very impressive business acumen. After all, the oil-for-food programme was not about giving food to Iraqi people but about making business contracts happen. The remarkable part of the account which has been pieced together from an array of sources is that Congress Party has proved its credentials as a business concern with impressive credentials of and services provided by the operatives.
Sonia Gandhi (aka Antonia Maino) reported that she was extremely angry. Naturally. She had unleashed a train of events which show the workings of Congress Party as a money-making (preferably greenbacks) entity with business people with impeccable track records for effective delivery of contracts (and money). But, why was she 'extremely' angry? Was there any choking up of the oil-for-food (also known as greenbacks non-contractual beneficiaty) pipeline?
Jamil Saidi who was with Rajasthan Youth Congress has now been threatened with dire consequences: Jamil Saidi denied that he was in Baghdad. "I met them in Jordan and that's about it. Some people are trying to fix me. I have been threatened with dire consequences," he told India Today. Saidi says Andaleeb Sehgal wanted him to rope in an MNC instead of Masefield. Andaleeb Sehgal counters blaming Jamil Saidi, saying that given the kind of resources and contacts Jamil had in Iraq, he could have used the Hamdan letterhead. "I have travelled to Iraq many times. I was there during the oil-for-food programme. I was a consultant with several companies," Jamil Saidi said. Jamil Saidi met Andaleeb Sehgal in Jordan and had also met Jagat Singh. (Aniel Matheran reported that he spotted Jamil Saidi in the lobby of the same Ba'athist Party (Al Rashid) hotel where the Natwar Singh led Congress Party delegation was staying). He has reportedly confirmed, however, that the Swiss Masefield AG was used by Mr Sehgal and Mr Jagat Singh as he had been told by the former that he would be picking up the oil through a British company.
<b>Section 2. It is all in the family, Congress Party is a big family, a big kulam</b>
There is a remarkable Kashmiri connection through the likes of Vikas Dhar and Bhim Singh of Panthers' Party (which was also named in Volcker papers as a non-contractual beneficiary of oil voucher coupons). The Kashmir link comes through the Dhar kulam.
Andaleeb Sehgal apparently introduced to Masefield AG, reported contractor for Natwar and the Congress, by an Indian company linked to a big arms dealer. Andaleeb is said to have an account in Jordan Bank. He has allegedly been trying to get the account records destroyed. Hamdan Exports is run by Andaleeb Sehgal and Vikash Dhar. Vikash's brother Vishal Dhar owns Vinayak Consultant. CBI had registered a case against Hamdan Exports and Vinayak Consultant in 2000 for setting up an illegal phone exchange and making several foreign calls during 2000-01, the period Andaleeb and his company was getting into the UN-sanctioned oil-for-food programme.
Andaleeb launched the Hamdan Exports with schoolmate Vikas Dhar, son of Vijay Dhar, a businessman from Srinagar. Vijay is the son of DP Dhar. Vikas Dhar, who happens to be the grandson of D P Dhar, a close friend and Principal advisor to Indira Gandhi. Andy later married Suhani Kumari of Nalagarh who is also Jagat's cousin. Suhani's father, Vijendra Singh has been a Congress old timer and was also elected MLA from Nalagarh many times.
Andaleeb Sehgal, 35, paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein, says Volcker Report. Sehgal, son of Delhi businessman Suman Sehgal, studied at Lawrence School, Sanawar, and St Stephen's College, Delhi. He married Suhani Kumari, daughter of Vijendra and Raymon Singh. Vijendra's mother was the princess of Patiala and is the aunt of Natwar Singh's wife. Vijendra has been a Congress MLA from Nalagarh.
Asad Khan, is alleged to have played a crucial role in the entire scam. He is suspected to have even used Hamdan Exports' visiting card during his travels with Andaleeb to Iraq. Asad is said to be a close friend of Andaleeb, Jagat and Vikas Dhar, partner in Hamdan Exports. Andaleeb confirmed that Asad is a friend, but denied any business links with him. He refused further comment, citing the ongoing investigations. Tehelka's calls and smses to Asad didn't elicit any response.
The Congress party purchased tickets for the four-member delegation (Natwar Singh, Jagat Singh, AR Antulay and Shivshankar) on the Royal Jordanian Airlines and gifts were also purchased. A letter was drafted on behalf of the Congress president by Natwar for Saddam Hussein.
Natwar Singh led the delegation to Iraq in January 2001 (with four congress party representatives â AR Antulay, Shivshankar, Mathrani, Subodh Kant Sahay and two of his relatives: his son Jagat Singh; Jagat Singh's cousin, Andaleeb Sehgal of Hamdan Exports, a company in Amman, Jordan). [Note that Arvind Khanna is also a cousin of Jagat Singh.] By a remarkable coincidence, Jalil Saidi
Jagat Singh, is a Congress MLA from Lachmangarh in Alwar district. Sources alleged that just after the deal, Jagat Singh began making several investments, like in the liquor business in Punjab. Jagat Singh, 36, is the son of Natwar Singh, whose father was a high-ranking official of the Bharatpur royal family. Jagat went to Doon School and later went to the United Kingdom to pursue higher studies. Jagat married Natasha, whose father was a Jordanian and mother an Indian. Natasha committed suicide in 2002. Her father was later found dead under mysterious circumstances at a Kathmandu hotel. Jagat's mother is the elder sister of Punjab Chief Minister Amrinder Singh.
Ahmed Patel, was Congress Treasurer at the time of the Iraq Oil-For-Food Programme.
Union Minister of State for Food Processing (Independent charge) is Subodh Kant Sahay. ED raided a company believed to be close to Sahay. Subodh Kant Sahay, who was also going to Iraq, was present during the reception hosted by the then Indian Ambassador to Jordan. He hung around us and wanted to be a part of the delegation. Jagat Singh and Andaleeb Sehgal were also present during the reception. (However, Sahay told India Today that he had nothing to do with the oil vouches and never wanted to get on board the Congress delegation.) As of Dec. 2001, Sahay was an AICC Secretary and was actively involved in election campaigns of the Congress Party. Sahay was fighting for election to the Lok Sabha from Punjab, a State where he had played a key role in covert dialogue with Khalistan terrorists.
UP Congress President, Salman Khursheed is believed to have been close to Jamil Ajmal Saidi, an oil trader who was grilled for many hours by ed officials.
Vipin Khanna is an arms dealer. Vipin Khanna runs a company called TSL Defence Technologies. He is very close to Natwar Singh. When the Prime Minister of Luxembourg called on Sonia Gandhi in 1999-2000, Natwar brought Vipin Khanna to 10 Janpath. This guy need not have been present at that meeting as he was honorary consul-general, not an ambassador.
His sons are: Arvind Khanna (cousin of Jagat Singh who is son of Natwar Singh), and Aditya Khanna. Arvind Khanna is Congress MLA from Sangroor in Punjab. Aditya Khanna is a London-based businessman. Aditya Khanna is Managing Director of DSSI Group and is an expert on offshore out-sourcing. DSSI Group, a New Delhi, India-based company specialising in helping companies establish a presence in India . Aditya Khanna was a key speaker on June 2, 2003 in a dinner by invitation (with limited seats) in the Tamarind Restaurant of London, organized to discuss: "Offshore Outsourcing in India "Next Generation" Approaches". Tamarind is London 's Michelin-star rated Indian restaurant.
Jamil Saidi is now an oil exploration consultant. He was a general secretary in the Rajasthan Youth Congress. Saidi's main associate in the youth wing was Natwar Singh's son Jagat Singh. Jamil Saidi acted as consultant to several companies that were part of the oil-for-food programme in Iraq. "I have travelled to Iraq many times. I was there during the oil-for-food programme. I was a consultant with several companies," he said.
<b>Investigating agencies know that:</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â * Saidi was in Jordan at the same time as Jagat Singh and Andaleeb Sehgal.
  * Andaleeb is said to have an account in Jordan Bank.
  * He has allegedly been trying to get the account records destroyed.
  * Andaleeb was apparently introduced to Masefield AG, reported contractor for Natwar and the Congress, by an Indian company linked to a big arms dealer. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
A report in International Herald Tribune said that Jamil Saidi is certain of Natwar Singh's role which resulted in oil voucher coupons not only in the name of Natwar Singh but also in the name of Congress Party. This confirms Aniel Mathrani's statement: He said that "one was given to him (Natwar Singh) by name" for his "personal services" and the other "the Iraqis kept for the friendly Congress Party." According to the Volcker report, Masefield AG lifted 1.936 million barrels out of the four million that were allotted to it. The report adds that in Phase 10 of the oil-for-food programme, Masefield AG lifted 1.001 million barrels out of the four million barrels allotted to the Congress party.
In a remarkable finale, Masfield Coal becomes Prima Energy of Italy and another Italian company ENEL.IT acquires 51% stake in Prima Energy SA of Italy. Jagat Singh acquires more liquor businesses.
The Italian connection gets solidified with the Swiss connection and oil-for-food. In this narrative, the food for the Iraqi people doesn't seem to have been anyone's concern, not even that of Saddam Hussein, not even that of the philanthropic United Nations or of pro-people United States of America, the only super-cop of the world. It is after all whose money? The moneys which should have been credited into the Consolidated Fund of India or the Bharatiya kos's or Indian Treasury.
<i>[Note: It has not been easy piecing together the narrative since the year 2000, authenticating each sentence and each piece of evidence. The pseudo-secular media, the mainstream dailies, in particular have failed in their responsibility to unravel what has turned out to be the greatest scandal of independent Bharatam. The threading together has been done based on excellent reports through second and third-rung media. These resources are presented in the annexed document.] </i>
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<b>Section 1. All President's men, Volcker-Antonia, financial crimes and national security</b>
This has all the makings of a best-seller and a gripping movie from Bollywood involving princely families, Italian and Swiss companies, international wheeler-dealers and high stakes in geopolitics. But the tragedy is that, apart from glaring indications of criminal wrong-doing which the criminal justice system of India should deal with in due course, the nation's financial security and foreign policy has been compromised by the transformation of the Congress Party under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi (aka Antonia Maino) into a multi-national trading enterprise.
What has happened with all the money acquired? Business expansion and diversification. Sources alleged that just after the deal, Jagat Singh began making several investments, like in the liquor business in Punjab. What was formerly Masefield Coal became Pragma Energy SA of Italy with an office in Madras (Chennai); ENEL.IT obtained 51% share in Pragma Energy SA, in June 2001. (Kapital CHF 4 million).
Sonia Gandhi (aka Antonia Maino) was not alone in the Volcker-Congress Party scandal which is developing into a criminal case. She was the sutradhari who (1) initiated the transaction with the first conversations with former Iraqi vice-president Taha Ramadan who visited India on November 27, 2000, and Natwar Singh accompanied Congress president Sonia Gandhi to the meeting with him. After this there was talk that during the delegation's visit, the oil minister met Natwar separately; (2) approved the travel of a Congress Party delegation led by Natwar Singh whose travel costs were borne by the Congress Party; and (3) also wrote a letter to Saddam Hussain which was delivered by Natwar Singh. Now, Congress Party is named as a non-contracting beneficiary of oil voucher coupons. The initition of deal and involvement through the entire transaction are continuous and complete.
Fifty-three years ago, in 1952, when I attended Jawaharlal Nehru's election meeting in Penukonda, for the first general elections of the Republic of India, I had the feeling, as an 8th grade student, that he represented a Congress Party which actively participated in the freedom struggle inspired by stalwarts like Mahatma Gandhi, Aurobindo Ghose and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. There was an aura about the Party which fought against the foreign colonial regime and asked for swarajyam. Is Republic of Bharat (Bharatiya Ganatantra) now being subjected to loot through means other than colonization?
Today, after fifty-three years, if these great leaders return to Bharatam, they wouldn't be able to recognize the Congress Party.
It is no longer a Party working for the people and for governance in swarajyam. It has been led into abyss by a lady called Antonia Maino (aka Sonia Gandhi) transforming the Party into a multi-national business enterprise and putting the nation's foreign policy for sale in foreign exchange currency (US Dollars).
Nation's foreign policy, nation's financial integrity, nation's security has been seriously compromised by a Congress Party led by Antonia Maino.
This should be a cause for deep concern not merely to those who are members of this political party but to all bharatiya who believe that they have achieved swarajyam and can live with swaabhimaan in this great, free nation. How could the Party compromise the nation's independent foreign policy for the sake of the crumbs offered by a foreign state? Thus the key issues are NOT whether Volcker's report is tainted, whether the UN oil-for-food programme is tainted, or whether there is the hand of the big super-cop behind all this. The issue is: has the Congress Party transformed itself into a foreign-policy dealer and oil-dealer through a set of smart operatives? Talks about Natwar Singh are mere diversions, making him a scapegoat to protect, from charges of criminal misdemeanor, some other entity, namely the Congress Party.
This is a special case of corruption; normally corruption cases point to speed-moneys for achieving favourable decisions on contracts. In this Volcker-Antonia case, the corruption case places the nation's foreign policy on the trading table.
The company she keeps also constitutes a national security risk. The support taken by the Congress Party from CPI-M which is trying to shield Sonia Gandhi from the Volcker charges of financial impropriety, is ominous since the functionaries of this Party travel for guidance to China, giving the impressions that their loyalties are trans-national. In a nation governed by laws, long arm of criminal justice system should reach out,apprehend and bring to book, the financial criminals who have violated the laws of the land. (Criminal breach of trust, corruption, violation of Foreign Currency Management Act and Foreign Currencies Regulation Act).
This reads like a big-business spy thriller. Since the polity in Bharatam has been substantially criminalized, many law-makers will comprehend, with ease, the impressive nature of the operations masterminded by the Congress Party. A detailed dossier is attached with references and URLs which will call for very careful reading to unravel the Congress Party as an efficient and also effective business enterprise. (Efficient, because of the clock-like precisions of the delegation work; effective because Masefield AG did lift the oil using a Letter of Credit of M/s Vitol Financers (with an office in Mumbai) to enable Masefield Holding Company to lift the oil. Masefield holding lifts the oil. Natwar Singh and Congress Party get the oil voucher coupons as non-contracting beneficiaries.)
Congress Party parades itself as peoples' party and Sonia Gandhi is the President of the Party. Citizens of India, that is Bharat, are entitled to ask for public accountability of both the Party and the President of the Party.
Congress Party is an old Party and naturally has a number of collaborators. Hence, this account will drop a series of names with very impressive business acumen. After all, the oil-for-food programme was not about giving food to Iraqi people but about making business contracts happen. The remarkable part of the account which has been pieced together from an array of sources is that Congress Party has proved its credentials as a business concern with impressive credentials of and services provided by the operatives.
Sonia Gandhi (aka Antonia Maino) reported that she was extremely angry. Naturally. She had unleashed a train of events which show the workings of Congress Party as a money-making (preferably greenbacks) entity with business people with impeccable track records for effective delivery of contracts (and money). But, why was she 'extremely' angry? Was there any choking up of the oil-for-food (also known as greenbacks non-contractual beneficiaty) pipeline?
Jamil Saidi who was with Rajasthan Youth Congress has now been threatened with dire consequences: Jamil Saidi denied that he was in Baghdad. "I met them in Jordan and that's about it. Some people are trying to fix me. I have been threatened with dire consequences," he told India Today. Saidi says Andaleeb Sehgal wanted him to rope in an MNC instead of Masefield. Andaleeb Sehgal counters blaming Jamil Saidi, saying that given the kind of resources and contacts Jamil had in Iraq, he could have used the Hamdan letterhead. "I have travelled to Iraq many times. I was there during the oil-for-food programme. I was a consultant with several companies," Jamil Saidi said. Jamil Saidi met Andaleeb Sehgal in Jordan and had also met Jagat Singh. (Aniel Matheran reported that he spotted Jamil Saidi in the lobby of the same Ba'athist Party (Al Rashid) hotel where the Natwar Singh led Congress Party delegation was staying). He has reportedly confirmed, however, that the Swiss Masefield AG was used by Mr Sehgal and Mr Jagat Singh as he had been told by the former that he would be picking up the oil through a British company.
<b>Section 2. It is all in the family, Congress Party is a big family, a big kulam</b>
There is a remarkable Kashmiri connection through the likes of Vikas Dhar and Bhim Singh of Panthers' Party (which was also named in Volcker papers as a non-contractual beneficiary of oil voucher coupons). The Kashmir link comes through the Dhar kulam.
Andaleeb Sehgal apparently introduced to Masefield AG, reported contractor for Natwar and the Congress, by an Indian company linked to a big arms dealer. Andaleeb is said to have an account in Jordan Bank. He has allegedly been trying to get the account records destroyed. Hamdan Exports is run by Andaleeb Sehgal and Vikash Dhar. Vikash's brother Vishal Dhar owns Vinayak Consultant. CBI had registered a case against Hamdan Exports and Vinayak Consultant in 2000 for setting up an illegal phone exchange and making several foreign calls during 2000-01, the period Andaleeb and his company was getting into the UN-sanctioned oil-for-food programme.
Andaleeb launched the Hamdan Exports with schoolmate Vikas Dhar, son of Vijay Dhar, a businessman from Srinagar. Vijay is the son of DP Dhar. Vikas Dhar, who happens to be the grandson of D P Dhar, a close friend and Principal advisor to Indira Gandhi. Andy later married Suhani Kumari of Nalagarh who is also Jagat's cousin. Suhani's father, Vijendra Singh has been a Congress old timer and was also elected MLA from Nalagarh many times.
Andaleeb Sehgal, 35, paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein, says Volcker Report. Sehgal, son of Delhi businessman Suman Sehgal, studied at Lawrence School, Sanawar, and St Stephen's College, Delhi. He married Suhani Kumari, daughter of Vijendra and Raymon Singh. Vijendra's mother was the princess of Patiala and is the aunt of Natwar Singh's wife. Vijendra has been a Congress MLA from Nalagarh.
Asad Khan, is alleged to have played a crucial role in the entire scam. He is suspected to have even used Hamdan Exports' visiting card during his travels with Andaleeb to Iraq. Asad is said to be a close friend of Andaleeb, Jagat and Vikas Dhar, partner in Hamdan Exports. Andaleeb confirmed that Asad is a friend, but denied any business links with him. He refused further comment, citing the ongoing investigations. Tehelka's calls and smses to Asad didn't elicit any response.
The Congress party purchased tickets for the four-member delegation (Natwar Singh, Jagat Singh, AR Antulay and Shivshankar) on the Royal Jordanian Airlines and gifts were also purchased. A letter was drafted on behalf of the Congress president by Natwar for Saddam Hussein.
Natwar Singh led the delegation to Iraq in January 2001 (with four congress party representatives â AR Antulay, Shivshankar, Mathrani, Subodh Kant Sahay and two of his relatives: his son Jagat Singh; Jagat Singh's cousin, Andaleeb Sehgal of Hamdan Exports, a company in Amman, Jordan). [Note that Arvind Khanna is also a cousin of Jagat Singh.] By a remarkable coincidence, Jalil Saidi
Jagat Singh, is a Congress MLA from Lachmangarh in Alwar district. Sources alleged that just after the deal, Jagat Singh began making several investments, like in the liquor business in Punjab. Jagat Singh, 36, is the son of Natwar Singh, whose father was a high-ranking official of the Bharatpur royal family. Jagat went to Doon School and later went to the United Kingdom to pursue higher studies. Jagat married Natasha, whose father was a Jordanian and mother an Indian. Natasha committed suicide in 2002. Her father was later found dead under mysterious circumstances at a Kathmandu hotel. Jagat's mother is the elder sister of Punjab Chief Minister Amrinder Singh.
Ahmed Patel, was Congress Treasurer at the time of the Iraq Oil-For-Food Programme.
Union Minister of State for Food Processing (Independent charge) is Subodh Kant Sahay. ED raided a company believed to be close to Sahay. Subodh Kant Sahay, who was also going to Iraq, was present during the reception hosted by the then Indian Ambassador to Jordan. He hung around us and wanted to be a part of the delegation. Jagat Singh and Andaleeb Sehgal were also present during the reception. (However, Sahay told India Today that he had nothing to do with the oil vouches and never wanted to get on board the Congress delegation.) As of Dec. 2001, Sahay was an AICC Secretary and was actively involved in election campaigns of the Congress Party. Sahay was fighting for election to the Lok Sabha from Punjab, a State where he had played a key role in covert dialogue with Khalistan terrorists.
UP Congress President, Salman Khursheed is believed to have been close to Jamil Ajmal Saidi, an oil trader who was grilled for many hours by ed officials.
Vipin Khanna is an arms dealer. Vipin Khanna runs a company called TSL Defence Technologies. He is very close to Natwar Singh. When the Prime Minister of Luxembourg called on Sonia Gandhi in 1999-2000, Natwar brought Vipin Khanna to 10 Janpath. This guy need not have been present at that meeting as he was honorary consul-general, not an ambassador.
His sons are: Arvind Khanna (cousin of Jagat Singh who is son of Natwar Singh), and Aditya Khanna. Arvind Khanna is Congress MLA from Sangroor in Punjab. Aditya Khanna is a London-based businessman. Aditya Khanna is Managing Director of DSSI Group and is an expert on offshore out-sourcing. DSSI Group, a New Delhi, India-based company specialising in helping companies establish a presence in India . Aditya Khanna was a key speaker on June 2, 2003 in a dinner by invitation (with limited seats) in the Tamarind Restaurant of London, organized to discuss: "Offshore Outsourcing in India "Next Generation" Approaches". Tamarind is London 's Michelin-star rated Indian restaurant.
Jamil Saidi is now an oil exploration consultant. He was a general secretary in the Rajasthan Youth Congress. Saidi's main associate in the youth wing was Natwar Singh's son Jagat Singh. Jamil Saidi acted as consultant to several companies that were part of the oil-for-food programme in Iraq. "I have travelled to Iraq many times. I was there during the oil-for-food programme. I was a consultant with several companies," he said.
<b>Investigating agencies know that:</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â * Saidi was in Jordan at the same time as Jagat Singh and Andaleeb Sehgal.
  * Andaleeb is said to have an account in Jordan Bank.
  * He has allegedly been trying to get the account records destroyed.
  * Andaleeb was apparently introduced to Masefield AG, reported contractor for Natwar and the Congress, by an Indian company linked to a big arms dealer. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
A report in International Herald Tribune said that Jamil Saidi is certain of Natwar Singh's role which resulted in oil voucher coupons not only in the name of Natwar Singh but also in the name of Congress Party. This confirms Aniel Mathrani's statement: He said that "one was given to him (Natwar Singh) by name" for his "personal services" and the other "the Iraqis kept for the friendly Congress Party." According to the Volcker report, Masefield AG lifted 1.936 million barrels out of the four million that were allotted to it. The report adds that in Phase 10 of the oil-for-food programme, Masefield AG lifted 1.001 million barrels out of the four million barrels allotted to the Congress party.
In a remarkable finale, Masfield Coal becomes Prima Energy of Italy and another Italian company ENEL.IT acquires 51% stake in Prima Energy SA of Italy. Jagat Singh acquires more liquor businesses.
The Italian connection gets solidified with the Swiss connection and oil-for-food. In this narrative, the food for the Iraqi people doesn't seem to have been anyone's concern, not even that of Saddam Hussein, not even that of the philanthropic United Nations or of pro-people United States of America, the only super-cop of the world. It is after all whose money? The moneys which should have been credited into the Consolidated Fund of India or the Bharatiya kos's or Indian Treasury.
<i>[Note: It has not been easy piecing together the narrative since the year 2000, authenticating each sentence and each piece of evidence. The pseudo-secular media, the mainstream dailies, in particular have failed in their responsibility to unravel what has turned out to be the greatest scandal of independent Bharatam. The threading together has been done based on excellent reports through second and third-rung media. These resources are presented in the annexed document.] </i>
<i>{PM me if anyone needs this document}</i>