Volcker report: Allegations to be probed (in India)

NDTV ^ | Monday, November 7, 2005 (New Delhi) | NDTV Correspondent

[indcons]

As a fallout of the Volcker report, NDTV has learnt that an inquiry will be announced by the government on Monday headed by a former judge.

This commission of inquiry will investigate Hamdan Exports, the key agency which the Volcker report claims paid the surcharge or kickbacks on behalf of External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and the Congress party.

UN investigator Paul Volcker in his report said that Singh and the Congress paid bribes to Iraqi authorities to buy oil in the UN sponsored oil-for-food programme. Both have denied Volcker's allegations.

Fact-finding probe

The government has also announced a fact-finding probe into what it calls "unverified" references to Natwar Singh and the Congress party and their role as alleged beneficiaries in the scam.

On Sunday, the Indian government appointed former diplomat Virendra Dayal as head of an independent inquiry committee, which will study the UN Volcker report.

Dayal, as special envoy of the government, will liaise with the UN and its members to collect relevant material.

[indcons]

The ruling Congress-Communist federal government in India is in much-deserved trouble. Looks like the leftists/congress party took money from Saddam or bribed him during the oil for food fiasco. Natwar Singh, India's current foreign minister, is under pressure from the opposition to quit over his role in propping Saddam Hussein's corrupt regime.

The communist-congress goons are also protesting joint US-India military exercises in the Bay of Bengal.

[Anselma]

"... during the oil for food fiasco."


Thanks for the posting. Like the Dems, and their willing accomplices in the MLM, we might do well to start "framing" the language, here.

Instead of referring to the Oil For Food "Scandal" or "Fiasco",
why not use the phrase, "massive UN corruption" whenever and wherever in referrence to the Oil For Food thing?!

[indcons]

Good idea