Category Corruption

MPs To Lobby For Non Existent Firm For Bribes

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Investigative website Cobrapost has exposed 11 MPs who were willing to write letters of recommendation for a fictitious foreign oil major for money.

The investigation, panning over a year, exposes MPs from Congress, BJP, BSP, JD(U) and AIADMK willing to issue letters of recommendation to promote a fictitious Australian oil exploration company in exchange for fees ranging between Rs 50,000 to Rs 50 lakh. Six of these MPs even wrote the letters for a fee.

Code-named 'Operation Falcon Claw', Cobrapost expose claims that the MPs were willing to not only write recommendation letters but also lobby with the Union ministry of petroleum to help the company secure oil exploration and rigging rights in the northeast.

Boeing Paid $ 990,000 To Rajiv Gandhi

I just posted an article detailing how Rajiv Gandhi was implicated in Viggen Aircraft deal.

Now report indicates that Rajiv Gandhi was paid US $ 990,000 by Boeing.

An article in the Michigan daily dated 10 September 1977 quoted a New Indian Express story to this effect.

The article by the New Indian express is not available.