January 2005 Telgi Scam – 171 crores - Telgi was sentenced 13 yrs RI and 100 cr fine. (Read More 1 2 Timeline 3) Mayawati’s Taj Corridor- 175 crores alleged scam – Case was dropped in 2007 by the pecial designated court due to insufficient evidence (Read more 1 Is Politics such a high paying profession ? 2 May 2008 -Mayawati attempts to stop CBI investigation 3) Motilal Goel Scam – 1000 crore February 2005 West Bengal Telecom Scam – 400 crores India’s unchecked textbooks racket – estimated 225 crores Urea Scam – 133 crores March 2005 Meghalaya lottery scam - 25000 crore April 2005 Ration Card Scam – 3 crore Car Financing Scam – ? crore Junior Basic Trained teachers’ recruitment scam- ? May 2005 Flood Relief Scam – 13 crores (Read more 1) Let them eat plastic bags – Gautam Goswami June 2005 Temple Lands Scam – 30 crores Franking Scam – 30 crores July 2005 Volkswagon Equity Scam – 11 crores – Sep 10 – CBI names 6 accused National Slum Development Programme – 1.52 crores (Same guy of Flood Relief Scam May 05 who said “Victims can eat plastic bags”) Kerala State Electricity Board – 89.32 crores (alleged corruption worth Rs. 100 crores was also involved in the drinking water project) August 2005 Indian Oil Corporation Scam – ? crores September 2005 Just talks of investigation of scam shaves off 89000 crores from the market capital CBI nets 70 officials in all-India anti-corruption drive Nagmani Scam – 1.5crore Stamp Scam (Goa) - 30.19 crore October 2005 Evasion of duty on High End Car’s – ? crore Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida) land scam – ? crore Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) Scam- 9.1 crore Delivering a talk on Corruption in democratic governance,Pandey said that “At present, the total amount of black money in India has been estimated to be in the range of Rs 50,000 crore and Rs 1,00,000 crore. The most worrisome is the fact that even those quarters that are supposed to fight corruption are not totally corruption-resistant”. Read more: ‘Black money behind politics’ November 2005 Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) Scam – ? crores National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) Scam – 250 crores – Sep 2007 – HC pulls up CBI for not registering case “I am pained to observe that the law in this country punishes very harshly the small offenders involved in offences of stealing of small amounts to the tune of few hundreds or few thousands. ”Such accused are often sent to jail by the big fishes who defraud the exchequer of crores of rupees…they are dealt with by investigating agencies in a different manner and the law does not act with the same harshness to these offenders,” Justice Dhingra observed in a recent order. ”This attitude of the investigating agencies is beyong comprehension,” he said while directing the CBI to register a case against Pankaj Aggarwal, the alleged mastermind in the scam. Aggarwal has his business in Dubai. December 2005 Election Fund Scam – ? Crores Operation Blackboard scam – 1000 crores Oil for Food Scam – ?
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