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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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24 Nov 2003 04:58:07 AM |
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OT: New Tales Of Graft And Greed |
New Tales Of Graft And Greed
http://www.msnbc.com/news/997157.asp
Corrupt politicians are fueling a deep cynicism
By Ron Moreau and Sudip Mazumdar
NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL
Dec. 1 issue — Indians can be forgiven if they are suffering from
corruption fatigue. Almost daily they seem to be bombarded with yet
another official scandal. Despite her vociferous denials, the chief
minister of Uttar Pradesh was forced to resign this summer amid
allegations that she was accepting kickbacks from a real-estate
developer, tucking the money away in her 87 personal bank accounts.
Last month Dilip Singh Judeo, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's
state minister for Environment and Forests, was caught on videotape
accepting bundles of rupees in a posh New Delhi hotel room from a man
claiming to represent an Australian mining company looking to secure
mineral rights in two Indian states. And over the past few weeks what
may amount to the country's largest scam has been slowly coming to
light: a $5 billion nationwide forgery racket, allegedly run by a
former south Indian village peanut vendor, which reportedly involved
some of the nation's top cops and politicians.
December 1, 2003 / Vol. 162 No. 21
Asia
Teflon Government
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501031201-549065,00.html
Corruption has become so commonplace on the subcontinent that scandals
have lost their ability to shock
BY ALEX PERRY | NEW DELHI
Corruption scandals in India carry the same capacity to shock as
revelations of a Mafia presence in Sicily. So when a videotape
surfaced last week allegedly showing a government minister holding a
fistful of cash to his forehead, uttering "money isn't God, but by
God, it's no less than God" and promising his benefactor mining
concessions, it created a stir in the press—but nowhere else.
Environment and Forests Minister Dilip Singh Judeo first issued an
outright denial, then resigned but maintained his innocence, then
admitted accepting money but compared himself to Mohandas Gandhi,
saying he needed the funds for a struggle to save India from a shadowy
international Christian conspiracy.
Corruption
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India
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