Judge yourself – Which regime is the most corrupt during the past 75-years!
Corruption – Heinous National Security Threat
Made an attempt to compile data on “Scams and Scandals”; but compiled those available in public domain.
Deem the data adequate to draw conclusions on the most corrupt regime during the past 75-years.
Nehru Regime (1947 to May 1964) Started with INA treasure chest disappearance; 1948 - Jeep scandal case (155 jeeps delivered out of 2,000 jeeps ordered – Rs. 80 Lakhs); 1949 - Gems Graft case - Industry minister Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh, father of Arjun Singh, was jailed for three years for taking a bribe of Rs. 25,000 from gemstone trader Sachendubhai; 1951 - Mudgal scandal; Cycle Scam; 1956 BHU funds misappropriation (Rs.5 million); 1957 - Haridas Mundhra Insurance company scandal (Rs.12 million); 1959 - Ramakrishna Dalmia, arrested for misappropriating around Rs 2.2 crore from the company and sent to jail for two years; 1960 - 1960 Dharma Teja managed to get Rs 22 crore loan from the government to start a shipping company, and then siphoned the money out of the country. Arrested in Europe and jailed for six years); 1964 - Pratap Singh Kairon resigned for favoring his family.
Lal Bahadur Shastri (June 1964 to January 1966) Biju Patnaik Kalinga Tubes scandal 1965.
Indira Gandhi (24 January 1966 to 24 March 1977): 1971 Nagarwala Scandal (Rs.60 Lakhs); 1974 Maruti scandal; 1976 Kuo Oil deal – US $ 200 Mn. Scam linked to Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi.
Morarji Desai (Mar 1977 to July 1979): Charan Singh (July 1979 to January 1980):
Indira Gandhi (January 1980 to 31 October 1984): 1980: THAL Vaishet project scam - consultancy contract for the Thal Vaishet project was awarded to a subsidiary of Italian Snamprogetti in violation of laid down norms; 1981 Antulay Trust scandal, the HDW Submarine Purchase Kickback – US$ 100 million; 1982 Cement Scam involving A R Antulay, Enron scandal; 1983 Lakhubhai Pathak Cheating Scandal.
Rajiv Gandhi (31 October 1984 – 2 December 1989): 1985 Fodder scam (Rs.9.5 billion); 1986 Bofors US $ 15 Bn contract. Kickbacks involving Rs.64 crores; 1987 HDW Submarine scandal (CBI director Dr. A P Mukherjee wrote that Gandhi wanted commission paid by defense suppliers to be used exclusively for meeting running expenses of the Congress party); 1989 St. Kitts Forgery; 2.5 billion Swiss francs in secret Indian accounts in Switzerland; payments to family members of Rajiv Gandhi, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi by the KGB (Soviet Union).
V P SINGH (December 1989 to November 1990). Chandrasekhar (November 1990 to June 1991):
PV Narasimha Rao (21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996): 1990 Air Bus A 320 deal, Telephone equipment’s & STC purchases; 1991 Jain Hawala case (Rs. 64 crores); 1992 Rs. 4,000 crores Harshad Mehta securities scam, Palmolein Oil Import Scam, Railway Engines, House allotments, Gold Star/ABFL, Stamp Paper Scam; 1993 Rs.18 million Hawala bribery scandal, Babanrao Gholap disproportionate-assets case; 1995 JM Bribery, Fertilizer Import Scam (US$ 330 Million), Sukh Ram Telecom Equipment Scandal, Telgi scam; 1996 Bihar fodder scam (US$ 250 Million), Oil and gas distributorship, Indian Bank loans totaling Rs. 1,500 crore to companies without obtaining adequate-collateral-security, Lakhubhai Pathak Paper Pulp Contract Bribery; 1996 disproportionate assets case against Jayalalithaa.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (16 May 1996 to 1 June 1996). H. D. Deve Gowda (1 June 1996 to 21 April 1997).
Inder Kumar Gujral (21 April 1997 to 19 March 1998) - 1997 Telecom Scam – US$ 400 Million, SNC Lavalin scandal, C. R. Bhansali scam (Rs.11 billion), Fertilizer import scam (Rs.1.33 billion), Meghalaya forest scam (Rs.3 billion), Tatra Truck scam, Jalgaon housing scam; 1998 - Anubhav Plantations scam, Ice cream parlour sex scandal, Palmolein Oil Import Scam (Kerala), Hawala scandal, SNC-Lavalin Kerala hydroelectric scandal.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (19 March 1998 to 22 May 2004) - 1999 Kargil Coffingate, UTI Mutual Fund scam – Rs. 4800 crores, 2000 - Cricket Match fixing, Telgi Stamp Paper Scam – over US $40 million; 2001 - UTI Scam – US$ 1.1 Billion, Rs.1,000 crores Ketan Parekh securities, Barak Missile Scandal, Calcutta Stock Exchange, Tehelka Sting, Operation West End, Roshni Act corruption scandal; 2002 -Provident Fund scam, Home Trade Scam: 2003 - Rs.20,000 crore Telgi Stamp Paper Scam, Taj corridor scandal, Housing and Urban Development Corporation scam, AP Social Welfare scholarship scam, UP food grain scam, Haryana teacher-recruitment scam.
Manmohan Singh (22 May 2004 to May 2009): 13th Lok Sabha
2004 Gegong Apang PDS Scam (Rs.1000 Crore), Taj Co-operative Group Housing Scheme scam (Rs.45 billion), IPO scam, Bihar flood-relief scam (Rs.170 million), Manesar land scam;
2005 Oil-for-food programme (Natwar Singh), Cash for Querry, MPLAD scam, Scorpene Submarine Scam. 2006 - Kerala Ice Cream Parlour Scandal, Navy War Room spy scandal, Punjab city-centre project scam (Rs.15 billion), UP Ayurveda scam (Rs.260 million), Fatwas for cash scandal;
2007 - Human Trafficking Forged Passport Scam, Ludhiana City Centre scam;
2008 - Cash For Votes Scandal, Hasan Ali Khan money-laundering case, State Bank of Saurashtra scam (Rs.950 million), Army ration-pilferage scam (₹50 billion), Paazee Forex scam (Rs.8 billion), Cash at judge's door scam, Power-theft scandal, 2G spectrum case;
Manmohan Singh (May 2009 to May 2014): 14th Lok Sabha
2009 - Madhu Koda mining scam – US$ 900 Million, Satyam scandal, Goa special economic zone scam, JVG scam, Rice export scam (Rs.25 billion), Orissa paddy scam, Sukhna land scam (Darjeeling), Vasundhara Raje Deendayal Upadhyaya Trust land scam, Austral Coke scam (Rs.10 billion), Gujarat VDSGCU sugarcane scam (Rs.187 million) , land for jobs in the railways from 2008 to 2009,
2010 - Rs.1,76,000 Lakhs crores 2G spectrum, Radia Tapes Controversy, Adarsh Housing Society, Rs. 70,000 crores Commonwealth Games scam, Housing loans, Lavasa Scandal, UP Food Grain Scam, AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Controversy, ISRO-Devas S band Scam, Indian Premier League Cricket Scandals, Andhra Pradesh Emmar scam (Rs.25 billion), Karnataka land scam, Karnataka housing-board scam (Rs.350 million), Uttarkhand Citurgia land scam, Medical Council of India bribery scandal - Ketan Desai was arrested by CBI on 22 April, Chandigarh booth scam, Odisha illegal-mining scam, Gegong Apang PDS scam (Rs.100 billion);
2011 - Hasan Ali Khan owes US$ 11.11 Billion in taxes, Indian Black Money in Swiss Banks, Reliance Gas scam, Belekeri port scam estimated loss to the public exchequer at Rs.35,000 crores, Tatra scam (Rs.7.5 billion), National Technical Research Organization scam (Rs.8 billion), Goa mining scam, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike scam, Himachal Pradesh housing scam, Pune housing scam, Pune land scam, Orissa pulse scam, Kerala investment scam, Mumbai sales tax fraud, Maharashtra education scam, Maharashtra public distribution system scam, Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test scam, UP MGNREGA scam, Orissa MGNREGA scam, Indian Air Force land scam, Bihar solar lamp scam, B. L. Kashyap, Employees' Provident Fund Organization scam, Assam education scam, Pune ULC scam;
2012 - National Herald corruption case, Aadhaar scam, Andhra Pradesh liquor scam, Bengaluru mayor's fund scam, Bharat Earth Movers housing-society scam, Delhi surgical-glove procurement scam, DIAL Scam (Rs.1,669.72 billion), Flying Club fraud, Foreign exchange derivatives scam (Rs.320 billion), Girivan land scam, Granite scam in Tamil Nadu (about ₹160 billion), Haryana forest scam, Himachal Pradesh pulse scam, Indian coal allocation scam, Jalgaon housing scam, J and K Cricket Association scam (about Rs.500 million), J and K PHE scam, J and K recruitment scam, J and K exam scandal, Karnataka Wakf Board Land Scam, Maharashtra stamp duty scam (Rs.6.4 billion), Maharashtra land scam, Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority repair scam (Rs.1 billion), Maharashtra Irrigation Scam (about Rs.720 billion), Ministry of External Affairs gift scam, MSTC gold-export scam (Rs.4.64 billion), Nayagaon, Punjab land scam, NHAI allegations – The World Bank's Institutional Integrity Unit identified fraud and corruption, requesting an investigation, NHPC cement scam, Patiala land scam (Rs.2.5 billion), Punjab paddy scam (Rs.180 million), Ranchi real-estate scam, Service Tax and Central Excise fraud (Rs.19,000 crore), Tax refund scam(Rs.30 million),Taxpayer identification number scam, Toilet scam, UP NRHM scam, Ultra Mega Power Projects scam undue benefits to Reliance Power, UP elephant-memorial scam (Rs.1,400 crore), UP horticulture scam (Rs.700 million), UP Labor and Construction Co-operative Federation scam, UP palm tree plantation scam (Rs.550 million), UP seed scam (Rs.500 million), UP stamp duty scam (Rs.1,200 crore);
2013 - Virbhadra Singh bribery controversy (Rs.2.4 crore), Vyapam scam, Saradha Group financial scandal, MP pre-medical test scam, Madhya Pradesh Scholarship scam, MP wheat-procurement scam (Rs.4 crore), Arvind and Tinoo Joshi disproportionate-assets case (MP), Delhi-Gurgaon Toll Plaza scam, Employees' Provident Fund Organization scam, Haryana seed scam (Rs.5 crore), Directorate General of Civil Aviation "free ticket" scam, Leave Travel Concession scam, NSEL case (Rs.5,500 crore), Railway iron ore freight scam (Rs.17,000 crore), UP illegal sand mining, Vodafone tax controversy (Rs.11,000 crore), Railway bribery scam, IPL spot-fixing and betting case, Kerala solar panel scam, Odisha land-allotment scam, Indian helicopter bribery scandal, MP Scholarship scam, MBBS seats scam, NSEL case (Rs.5,500 crore), Indian helicopter bribery scandal
2014 - Mumbai International Airport scam (2012 to 2018), Aavin scam - Ten-year adulteration of milk supplied from societies of the Tamil Nadu State Milk Union, estimated at Rs.27 lakh per day, Smart City, Kochi scam, Cash for MLC seat scam - H. D. Kumaraswamy, Pratapsingh Rane bribery case; Illegal mining in the Aravalli Range (Haryana and Rajasthan), Siliguri-Jalpaiguri Development Authority scam, West Bengal (Rs.200 crore), Reliance Jio spectrum-auction-rigging scam, Odisha industrial-land mortgage scam (Rs.52,000 crore), National Herald land scam, Vyapam scam - based in Madhya Pradesh, MP farmer welfare and agriculture development minister Gauri Shankar Chaturbhuj Bisen disproportionate assets case (Rs.2,000 crore), Hari Kumar Jha disproportionate assets case (Rs.15 crore), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) unaccounted-cash case (Rs.34 crore), Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) discretionary quota plot scam, Scindia land-grab case, R. C. Kuriel disproportionate assets case (Madhya Pradesh), Rajasthan Housing Board (RHB) arbitrary lease allotment of property, HPCA illegal land-allotments scandal, Indian Railways-Rail Tel Corporation of India mobile scam, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Rolls-Royce defense scam (Rs.10,000 crore), Air India Family Fare Scheme scam, Bokaro Steel Plant recruitment scam, Gujarat arbitrary land-allotments scandal, Kribhco and Yara International fertilizer fraud controversy, Delhi Jal Board scam (Rs.10,000 crore), Indian Railways "emergency quota" ticket scam, Cremation shed scam- Rajya Sabha MP T. M. Selvaganapathy was sentenced to two years and resigned for corruption, Maharashtra money laundering - Chhagan Bhujbal and his family.
2015 - Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation's National Urban Livelihood Mission had built only 208 houses for nine lakh (900,000) homeless people, although the central government had allocated Rs.1,078 crore to the mission; Delhi Jal Board tanker scam (Rs.400 crore) – Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit was accused of floating costly tenders, Amethi Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust land-grab case, Delhi CNG scam (Rs.100 crore), Delhi power scam, Gujarat fisheries scam (Rs.400 crore), Goa GIDC plot-allotment bribery case, Mizoram office of profit scam, Maharashtra Annabhau Sathe Development Corporation scam (Rs.141 crore), Uttarkhand liquor-license scandal, Nagpur land-grab case, Integrated Child Development Services "Chikki" controversy (Rs.206 crore), Bangalore illegal land de-notification scam B. S. Yeddyurappa, Virbhadra Singh disproportionate-assets case (Rs.6 crore), NTC land scam (Rs.709 crore), Lalit Modi corruption case, Cash for Vote Scam - MLA Revanth Reddy, Corporate espionage - Officials of Reliance Industries, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, Essar Group, Cairn India and Jubilant Energy were accused of stealing documents from the Petroleum Ministry, Uttarkhand flood-relief scam (Rs.100 crore), NSE co-location scam (about Rs.50,000 crore), Louis Berger Group bribery case, Lalit Modi case
2016 - Narada sting operation, Freedom 251 scam - A ponzi scheme, Fugitive Economic Offender, Vijay Mallya escaped from India on March 2, 2016, through Jet Airways Delhi - London flight from Indira Gandhi International Airport; PACL scam;
2017 - Noida Ponzi scheme, Jatin Mehta scam for allegedly cheating three government banks of Rs.1,530 crore, public-interest litigation petition was filed against Adani Group, Reliance Group, Essar Group and other mining and energy companies for an investigation of alleged Rs.290 billion overcharges for Indonesian coal and imported power equipment from 2011 to 2015; Maharashtra scholarship scam - hundreds of institutes across the state had pocketed several thousand crore rupees since 2010.
2018 – 2010 Rotomac bank fraud allegedly defaulted on loans worth Rs.3,695 crore, Punjab National Bank Scam linked to Nirav Modi,
2019 - PMC Bank scam, DHFL scam, UPPCL employee provident fund (EPF) scandal, INX Media case against former Union Minister P. Chidambaram; IMA Ponzi scheme, D. K. Shivakumar money-laundering case, Cox & Kings scam, Karvy Scam, IL&FS scam and fraud, Misuse of Clients' Funds by Amrapali Aadya Trading and Investments Private Limited and 8 others.
2020 - Kerala gold smuggling scandal; Fake TRP Scam, Roshni Land Scam - Rs. 25,000 crore scam was earlier highlighted in CAG audit of 2013, Guru Raghavendra Co-operative bank in Bangalore scammed innocent citizens, Sandalwood drug scandal, PM Kisan Nidhi scam in Tamil Nadu, where Rs. 110 crore was siphoned off to ineligible beneficiaries;
2021 - Vazegate Scandal, 2021 Recruitment scam, Pegasus Snooping Scandal.
2022 -Charity Scandal Rana Ayyub under the money laundering act, West Bengal: School Service Commission recruitment scam, cross-border cattle smuggling racket, MGNREGA scandal, PM Grameen Awas Yojana, Rose Valley Scam, Narada sting videos, PDS scam.
2023 -Adani Group scandal, Delhi liquor scam, Mahadev Betting App Case.
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