*One evening, my wife and I sat down together. “I think the end has come,” I said (**KARNATAKA LOKAYUKTA **SANTOSH HEGDE) * (excerpt) This is just the money bit! (vjp) One metric tonne of iron ore fetches $120 in the Chinese market. For ease of calculation, we went by $100 a tonne and Rs 50 a dollar. This meant a tonne was worth Rs 5,000 and 5 lakh tonnes would command Rs 250 crore. This is the size of a scam unearthed by a forest officer in Karwar alone. Gokul filed a criminal case against the companies and the port authorities that contrary to the court’s directions, the ore was stolen from his custody. When he inquired further, he discovered that at least 35 lakh tonnes had been transported without permits in the recent past. This meant that the size of the scam was at least Rs 1,750 crore. *http://www.tehelka.com/story_main45.asp?filename=Ne100710firstperson.asp* * * *And the shit-eating grins grow wider, and wider!*
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