Volcker & Bofors - Congress Party involvement

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Food-for-oil kick-back went to Sonia Gandhi: Dr. Swamy


Statement of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, Janata Party President and former Union Cabinet Minister in London[UK] at the Meet the Press convened by the Indian Journalist Association on December 9, 2005.

Now that no one in Indian Parliament is questioning anymore the authenticity of the documents of the Volcker Committee Report on the UN’s Iraq Oil for Food Programme, it is time to decode the method of stashing away of the ill-gotten money siphoned off from the programme by Indian politicians. <b>Although oil vouchers has got most the media attention, the ‘kick-backs’ in the sale of food and medicines etc., by 125 companies is the bigger scandal which must be taken up later.</b>

But the hunt for accountability must start at the top which in this case is the Congress Party led by Ms. Sonia Gandhi. It is now established that the then Oil Minister of Iraq had met Ms. Gandhi at her residence in the presence of Mr. Natwar Singh, and the matter of oil voucher was discussed. In January 2001, Mr. Singh met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad with a letter from Ms. Gandhi[ which is with Volcker Committee]. Vouchers for lifting 4 million barrels of oil at a concessional price was then issued in the name of the party.

<b>This oil allotment did not go to Indians or Indian refining PSU companies, but instead was sold at market price to a Marc Rich owned foreign company: Masefield AG. </b>The difference between the concessional price and the market price, <b>about Rs. 300 crores, found it’s way from Swiss banks to Cayman Island to New York for investment.
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<b>I have now verified that the ill-gotten money earned by Ms. Sonia Gandhi ended up in HSBC bank in New York[Yonkers branch] deposited in the account of Century Development Group, Inc., account number: 652-72521-0. This is a benami account of Ms. Sonia Gandhi operated on her behalf by Zach Thomas, the New York based brother-in-law of Ms. Sonia Gandhi’s Man Friday Vincent George.</b>

After the UPA come to power at the Centre, the Finance Minister broke the law by creating a financial instrument called Participatory Note[PN] which was put out of the purview of the SEBI, and hence not required to disclose the source of funds when invested in the Mumbai and other stock exchanges. Ms. Sonia Gandhi used the Fidelity Investments company of New York to make extensive ‘penny stocks’ purchases to manipulate the stock market ‘boom’ and earn huge profits. Indians thus lost at both endsoil and stock market stability. Ms. Gandhi has used the Century Development outfit to purchase real estates in US, and has been permitted to channel investments of NRI to Kerala. In this connection, Muthoot Company of Kerala must be investigated as well.

<b>After the Volcker Committee Report came out, Ms. Sonia Gandhi instructed Mr. Thomas to get rid of all the records. The company was thus hastily sold to two Americans in Nevada in mid-October.</b>

Ms. Sonia Gandhi is also implicated in the Letters of Credit opened by Vitol Financiers, which company has an office in Mumbai too.

Ms. Sonia Gandhi must resign from the Cabinet rank post of Chairperson of the National Advisory Council of the UPA government, <b>because she has already sought to influence the investigation in India by the Enforcement Directorate. Kolkata based Telegraph has reported that on December 6th at 4 PM, ED officials were summoned to her residence for a briefing and for receiving directions on further inquiry.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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If you read above post/news, now this make sense why they want to close case against V.George.

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<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:blue'> Even big editors have small vanities. Mr. Natwar Singh, the foreign minister of India, telephoned the ‘big’ editor of the ‘secular’ newspaper, although it was to clarify his position vis-à-vis the Volcker report. The call merited front paging with a banner headline. In India that is Bharat the word ‘secular’ defies dictionaries - but writing about it is digressing from the main theme. The BE did not have a crystal ball and could not know the twists in the tale which seem to continue to unwind.



Returning to our main story, there are two components in it. The first is Natwar Singh’s denial. What else do we expect him to do? He would and did. He still does although the ‘old faithful party’ led him to the gallows in the larger cause. ‘Caesar is an honourable man’ and his honour should be protected even if one foreign minister is made an errand boy and another a fall guy.



Sometime in April 1987, the Swedish national broadcaster fired its Bofors. The salvo came in handy for one of India’s greatest Machiavellians. For him all was fair in politics and power (power comes after politics in the dictionary - to use a hackneyed pun) including fragmenting the ‘body politic’ in his pursuit of power. He used it to do a Brutus on Caesar. Caesar was dethroned but in spite of thundering protestations, could not regain his honour in his lifetime or after. The needle of suspicion still hovers in the direction of his grave. Caesar is (or was) guilty or not depending on your angle of vision - the parallax perspective (does it sound like an oxymoron?).



Shortly afterwards, Geoffrey Archer, the British novelist published a collection of short stories entitled ‘A Twist in the Tale’. One of the stories in the collection is a spoof on India’s Bofors saga. The story runs like this:



The finance minister of a third-world country approaches a Swiss bank ostensibly to investigate the account one of his country’s politicians had with the bank. The senior official of the bank whom the finance minister approaches refuses to confirm or give any details of the account. The finance minister’s pleas in the name of ethics, morality, humanity and what have you and threats to close down all his country’s accounts with the bank and even the threat to kill him were of no avail. The finance minister makes to give up and walk out but suddenly heists (pun intended) his brief case on to the table and says ‘how about opening an account?’



In another part of the story two third-world finance ministers meet in an international conference held in one of their capitals. They become friends and the finance minister of the host country invites the other to his mansion for dinner. The guest marvels at the opulence of his host’s mansion and wonders how he could build such an opulent mansion in so poor a country. The host takes him to the top of the building and shows him a nearby river and a dam on it. He asks him ‘do you see the dam?’ The guest replies he does. “Well! Ten percent of it’, he says.



The next conference was held in the guest’s national capital and naturally the earlier guest now plays host and invites his friend to dinner. It was the turn of the other to marvel at the opulence of his friend’s palace. So the host takes him to the top of the building and points at the panoramic expanse of the nearby river. ‘See the dam there?’ he asks. ‘But I do not see anything there!’ replies his guest. ‘Precisely!’ says the host, ‘Ten per cent of it!’



By the by, Geoffrey Archer believed there was no corruption in the first-world, till ...



Much water has flown down the Rhine and Ganges since 1987. India’s foreign minister was used as an errand boy to deliver letters to the Swiss requesting them to stall the Bofors’ investigation, as Caesar’s honour could not be sullied; the dynasty has done so much for the country. J. Nehru billed the nation for his stay in ‘Yarawada gaol’ (as he loved to spell it) and collected an inexhaustible supply of post-dated cheques, which the dynasty is cashing.



A former Japanese prime minister was convicted for corruption. It happened in the Philippines, in Italy, in Israel and Britain. Two British Prime Ministers had to abdicate because of their cabinet colleagues’ sexual misdemeanours - not financial malfeasance. In India such misdemeanours are not reported. After all in India that is Bharat the high and mighty have the privilege of different social codes of conduct. J. Nehru’s escapades with Edwina Mountbaten surfaced long after both of them met their maker.



In the US a President was convicted for spooking his opponent’s headquarters. In India, Indira (no, it does not mean Indira is India) famous for her keeping dossiers on her opponents did not have to do it. In India that is Bharat, law enforcement agencies are their political masters’ fiefdoms. And fund collectors (e.g. Rustum Shorab Nagarwala and Lalit Narain Misra) disappear if their presence is inconvenient for their masters.



Now the second part of the press parallax. The country’s socio-political philosophy is mind-boggling. The country’s founding fathers wanted a casteless society. India today has myriad castes and they keep mutating. Today the political class is the Kshatriyas. All paths are cleared for their movement. The bureaucracy is the Brahmins. They preside over all social activity. The business class is the Vysyas. Everything spins around their money that pervades the ether. The rest - us all comprises the Sudras. The original Brahmins are untouchables today. What goes up has to come down in a topsy-turvy world.



The founding fathers wanted a secular society - meaning that the state has no religion. Indira inserted the word, which the founding fathers forgot to write into the constitution. When she declared a nineteen-month holiday for political parties and received all opponents as government guests - with the noble intention of running trains on time and her second son practiced castrating extra productivity - Indian parliament had to do something. India, today therefore competes with Saudi Arabia.



The press in India today mirrors the socio-political milieu including its hypocrisy with a few honourable exceptions but like internet passwords they too are case sensitive. A press baron is reported to have said ‘I can hire editors a dime a dozen, I want marketing managers who can sell the paper’. A wise editor agreed that there is nothing called objectivity. Objectivity like beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder! Or objectivity like consistency is a virtue of the asses!



The Bofors saga was unearthed by Arun Shourie but taken forward by the ‘big editor with the small vanity’ and his Swiss correspondent. They led us through the mazes of accounts routing and rerouting kickbacks. Indian governments’ lethargy and inactivity ended up in blank walls. No Caesar could be indicted for a ‘Caesar could do no wrong’. That is the divine privilege Indian society confers on its political class.



Time has turned full circle. Now a ‘secular’ government supported by workers’ angels (sounds like Marx and Engels, does it not?) is ruling. Natwar Singh has secular credentials. He wants to reverse the clock and take the country back to the days of the non-aligned movement and an independent foreign policy. An independent foreign policy in the lexicon of the workers’ angels is kowtowing to the dictatorships of the banana republics and the Orwellian paradises - a.k.a. the non-aligned movement. He supports Iraq and Iran not because they are great democracies but because they are Muslim nations. That gets votes for his party although Indian Muslims are appalled by the suggestion that for them a foreign nation - whatever its religion - is more important than their own national interest. All angels must come to the aid of the party - and - Natwar Singh called to clarify that he did not mulct. So ‘I’ believe he did not. Q.E.D. But then, in hindsight………



In the end Natwar had to be excavated from the chair, with him kicking and screaming. There is a twist in the tale, which good old Geoffrey might some day add to his collection. Mitrokhin finally confirmed what many of us suspected all along, that some of those liberal hearts were paid to bleed like the crowds that are arranged to cheer our netas’ orations. Long live KGB! Matherani confirmed that a ‘liberal’ foreign policy can also be milked. Long live AMAM!</span></span>

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<b>BJP charges PM with ‘insulting’ Rajya Sabha</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The BJP on Thursday charged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with "insulting" the Rajya Sabha by refusing to give clarifications, sought by Leader of Opposition Jaswant Singh, on his own statement on Volcker report on Iraqi oil payoffs.

"The Prime Minister through his behaviour has insulted the entire House. The way he dismissed us was deplorable and condemnable", party spokesperson and BJP Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha Sushma Swaraj alleged.

She claimed to reporters that the convention was that the Prime Minister replied to clarifications sought by members and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi had repeatedly informed that Manmohan Singh would be doing so on his return from foreign visits.

"If he did not have to reply, why were we given the assurance? Why was it included in the list of business? We are surprised at the manner in which the Prime Minister, who is known for sobriety and decency, behaves sometimes", she said and recalled an incident ahead of last year's budget session when a memorandum was submitted by an NDA delegation led by LK Advani.
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How likely is it? - <b>MafiaSo</b>nia announcing general elections

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Very much possible in next 6 months. Commies should pull out of govt. very soon atleast 3-4 months before assembly election in WB and Kerala.

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Guys,

There was a victory bash here in potamac region for the NDA's victory in Bihar. There was a serious talk of Lok Sabha getting dissolved in April timeline by some of the politically connected people. These can be gossip and may also have needle of truth.

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<b>Dear Admn.,

When I posted the article entitled "Natwar Singh and <i>The Hindu</i> Parallax", there were two issues in it. The first was of course, the Volker committee report indicting Natwar Singh and the second was the Indian media's predisposition. It was the second point I wanted highlighted in the title. Therefore it would have been best if you had left it as a separate '<i>thread</i>' instead of clubbing it with the general debate on the subject.

Sincerely,
Vox Indica</b>

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I wonder who is handling the PR (i mean image management) for the Congress party. Whoever it is, they are doing a great job. About 3-4 weeks back the govt was swarmed with Vockler and Mitrokhin. Now all the talk is about BJP MP's taking money for questions, BJP MP's asking for kickbacks for MLAPD and ofcourse BJP's reluctance to support SC/ST upliftment in the reservation bill. All the corruption in the congress has been swiped off the air.

This is as good as Iraq war PR by the republicans in US. It is only now after 3 years and thousands of deaths is this unveiling in the US and approval rating are dropping.

How long can congress continue to CON the public. Can media/crisis management and diversion tactics be a subtitute for performance? We do know that it worked for 15 years in Bihar. How long will it work on all india level. unless we have a news media to expose these machinations, they can work for some more time.

One thing you can be sure is that we will not have elections to parliament until the Vockler etc is fresh in the memory. Another 2 months and pathak will give a clean chit to congress, then some other committee will clear congress from the Mitrokhin scandal, then we will be ready for fresh elections.

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<!--QuoteBegin-voxindica+Dec 22 2005, 09:05 AM-->QUOTE(voxindica @ Dec 22 2005, 09:05 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Dear Admn.,

When I posted the article entitled "Natwar Singh and <i>The Hindu</i> Parallax", there were two issues in it. The first was of course, the Volker committee report indicting Natwar Singh and the second was the Indian media's predisposition. It was the second point I wanted highlighted in the title. Therefore it would have been best if you had left it as a separate '<i>thread</i>' instead of clubbing it with the general debate on the subject.

Sincerely,
Vox Indica</b>
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Any reason why it cannot go with "Media in India.." thread? Do you want to narrow the focus hence the need for separate thread?

I am assuming, by "The Hindu" you meant the "Red Rag" of Neo.Ravan (a.k.a N.Ram)?

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<b>Swamy asks CBI to register FIR against Sonia Gandhi</b>
NEW DELHI, DEC 21 (PTI)

Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy today said he has approached the CBI seeking registration of an FIR against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in connection with the Volcker Committee report and threatened to move the judiciary if a case was not registered.

Addressing a press conference here, he said Gandhi's office had "not been able to deny with documentary proof" the accusation of the Volcker Committee of the party "having obtained illegal gratification" in Iraq's oil-for-food programme despite weeks having passed since the report was made public.

"I have asked the CBI to register an FIR under Foreign Currency Regulation Authority (FCRA) and IPC," he said.

<b>"If the CBI fails to file the case, I will file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in either High Court or Supreme Court," Swamy said.</b> <!--emo&:beer--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' /><!--endemo-->

He also demanded that Income Tax authorities collect taxes on undisclosed incomes of the Congress party from Iraq oil deal of the Congress party.

Noting that Virendra Dayal, government's special envoy to collect details on Volcker issue, had gathered documents during his visits to the UN, Jordan and Iraq, Swamy demanded that their list be placed in Parliament if tabling of the documents was not possible.

<b>To a question, he said that he approached the CBI as he had no faith in the Justice R S Pathak Commission.</b>

http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=343375

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<b>Yes, the idea is to narrow the focus and the reference was to <i>"The Hindu" </i> newspaper. Vox Indica posted an article on Indian media biases earleir entitled <i>"Ed Murphy and Political CCs"</i></b><!--QuoteBegin-k.ram+Dec 22 2005, 10:37 PM-->QUOTE(k.ram @ Dec 22 2005, 10:37 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-voxindica+Dec 22 2005, 09:05 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(voxindica @ Dec 22 2005, 09:05 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Dear Admn.,

When I posted the article entitled "Natwar Singh and <i>The Hindu</i> Parallax", there were two issues in it. The first was of course, the Volker committee report indicting Natwar Singh and the second was the Indian media's predisposition. It was the second point I wanted highlighted in the title. Therefore it would have been best if you had left it as a separate '<i>thread</i>' instead of clubbing it with the general debate on the subject.

Sincerely,
Vox Indica</b>
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Any reason why it cannot go with "Media in India.." thread? Do you want to narrow the focus hence the need for separate thread?

I am assuming, by "The Hindu" you meant the "Red Rag" of Neo.Ravan (a.k.a N.Ram)?
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Please go ahead and open the thread with the scope you mentioned. As thread owner you are responsible for steering the discussion <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> And, please use your normal ID, not Vox Indica, per the IF discussion rules. Depending on the thread evolves, we can let it have its own life or merge with existing media thread, but let it start.

Thanks!

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<b>Sonia must step down as NAC chairperson: Advani</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->BJP President LK Advani on Wednesday demanded that Congress President Sonia Gandhi step down as head of National Advisory Council in the wake of the Iraqi oil payoffs controversy and accused it of being desperate to "hang" Natwar Singh to portray Gandhi as "squeaky clean".
"There was prima facie case that the Congress party was a non-contractual beneficiary of Saddam Hussein's largesse, while former minister for External Affairs, Natwar Singh was a mere messenger-cum-commission agent," BJP President LK Advani said in his inaugural address at the party convention that began in Mumbai on...............
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<b>Natwar appears before Pathak Commission </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Enforcement Directorate sources told NDTV that writing letters to solicit business for his son or his associate makes Natwar liable under FEMA.

Both Natwar and his son are hoping that the commission will complete its investigations soon. But sources in the authority are not so sure. They have time till August to complete investigations and could ask for an extension.

Congress leader Moti Lal Vora will have to explain on Thursday how the Congress figured as a beneficiary in the Volcker report.

Youth Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala will also be questioned on whether Jagat Singh went to Iraq in 2001 as part of an official Congress delegation.

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The present investigation is part of an on going probe into the affair. So at the moment we should wait and watch the unfolding of the story.

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<b>TV channel says it has proof about money transfer in oil </b>deal<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> private television network on Tuesday claimed to have proof about the money transfer from London accounts of Andleep Sehghal and Aditya Khanna to India in the food-for-oil scam brought out by the Volcker report.
The Barclays account was opened on May 24, 2001 with zero balance, specifically to receive and distribute the oil deal money, a release issued by the news channel claimed.

<b>It said Swiss firm Masefiled transferred $96,786 to the account on June 6, 2001. Five days later, $89,000, were transferred from the Indrus account to a London-based company called Coburg Associates.

The release claimed that Sehghal Consultants received $7,000 from the same account and Coburg Associate also sent $44,000 to Andleep Sehghal in the account of Hamdaan Exports in India.

Giving the various money trail, the channel claimed that Sehgal had received Rs 30.14 lakh (68,500 dollar) and the London-based NRI Aditya Khanna made Rs 7.89 lakh in the food-for-oil scam</b>.

Reacting to this, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley told the television network that criminal prosecution should now be launched against all the accused.
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Video report with proof

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<b>Natwar says higher-ups trying to nail him, Jagat</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Asked specifically on who the higher-ups were, Natwar Singh said "this is for you to find out. <b>Ask the Finance Minister, ask the Congress leadership</b>. This is a concerted attempt to target me. May be they will give you the answers".
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Queen is roasting Natwar or its Natwar's ploy.

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Pathak covers up for party, nails Natwar  </b>
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How can they exonerate Cong, asks Natwar ---- Still reeling after the day's isolation in Rajya Sabha, the Pathak Commission probing the UN oil-for-food scam provided the beleaguered Congress some relief in the evening by exonerating the party of any wrong doing and nailing one of the prime movers behind the opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal.

The Justice RS Pathak Inquiry Authority probing the UN Oil-for-Food programme in Iraq during Saddam Hussein's regime found former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh guilty of misusing his powers as a foreign minister but failed to find any evidence of a money trail linking him or his son Jagat Singh.

<b>However, Jagat's relatives Andaleeb Sehgal and Aditya Khanna were indicted for having received money.</b>

<b>The knives are out in Congress for Natwar Singh as he was seen as being active in the opposition to the nuclear deal. The party has indicated that action would follow against the former foreign minister after studying the findings, reports NDTV.</b>

"It is a very high-powered commission chaired by a former Chief Justice of India which went into the facts and records and said what it has to say," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said. As far as individuals are concerned, he remarked, "let us wait to study the report and then decide on the individual course of action."

Natwar reacted saying that the commission report vindicated his stand that he did not take any money, but he asked,<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> "How can they cast aspersions on me while exonerating the Congress party." </span>  <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Justice Pathak submitted his report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday in which he also exonerated the Congress Party for having received any slush funds from the scam.

The report found that Natwar and his son had misused their position in helping Sehgal and Khanna bag three oil contracts from the UN sanctioned Saddam regime. Sehgal and Khanna, in turn, passed the contracts on to Swiss oil company Masefield AG that drew the oil and paid them a commission, the report says.

On a cut of five cents a barrel, Sehgal and Khanna received a total commission of $ 1,46,000, which they divided between themselves in a ratio of 4:1, according to the report.

The Paul Volcker report had named Natwar Singh and the Congress as non-contractual beneficiary in the oil-for-food scam. Informed sources told The Pioneer that during its intense investigation, the one-man Justice Pathak authority found Natwar Singh guilty of misusing his position.

The senior Congress leader has been accused of influencing the Saddam Hussein regime during his visits to Iraq in his capacity as leader of the Congress delegation. In the same breath, the Authority also singled out Jagat Singh for misusing his position.

The only saving grace for the father-son duo was that Justice Pathak failed to find any monetary transactions to Natwar and Jagat, which could have accrued through the shady deals.

<b>It was found during investigations that Natwar Singh wrote three official letters to the Iraqi Oil Minister to introduce Andaleeb Sehgal. The Justice Pathak panel met Paul Volcker in New York to look into the alleged payoffs to Natwar Singh and the Congress.</b>

The Volcker controversy broke out on October 30, 2005 when the report by former United Nations diplomat Paul Volcker hit headlines listing over 600 names as non-contractual beneficiaries of Iraqi oil sales in 2001. It also included Natwar Singh, India's then Foreign Minister and the Congress Party as non-contractual beneficiaries.

When the oil-for-food scam came to light in November last year, Natwar Singh, had to first quit as Foreign Minister and then from the Union Cabinet within a month on December 6.

Natwar Singh, who was summoned by the Authority, as were Sehgal and others, had always maintained that he had not done anything wrong in the whole affair and the inquiry would prove his innocence.

He had also accused the Enforcement Directorate of indulging in a witch-hunt and harassing his son and others. He had hinted at some higher-ups in the Congress party of going after him.
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<b>Natwar, son found guilty of misusing power</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Highlights of Pathak Commission Report
Pathak panel finds Natwar Singh guilty of misusing position
Pathak panel finds Jagat Singh guilty of misusing position
Pathak panel: No money has been traced to Natwar Singh
Pathak panel: The money trail has not been traced to Jagat Singh
<b>Pathak panel gives the Congress a clean chit </b>
Pathak panel: Andaleeb Sehgal and Aditya Khanna did receive money
Natwar Singh wrote three letters to the Iraqi Oil Minister introducing Andaleeb Sehgal
Natwar Singh was named as a non-contractual beneficiary by the Volcker Report
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Congress was named as a non-contractual beneficiary by the Volcker Report </span>
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Well, when it is a question on Rahul Mahajan, then blame BJP. But when its Natwar Singh or Congress General Sec, or Foreign Minister is involved its a personal thing not related to Party.
Why no investigation on Sonia Gandhi, President of Congress party?