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India's major defence scams

New Delhi: The Indian Armed Forces are known the world over  for their honesty, integrity and professionalism. However, due to the booming and fast growing economy, the over Rs one crore per year sky-rocketing pay

PTI PTI Updated on: February 15, 2013 6:20 IST
4. Bofors scam



This scandal is also known as the hallmark of Indian Corruption. This was a most important corruption during the 1980‘s where the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and quite a few others which also includes a powerful NRI family named the Hindujas were accused of receiving bribe from Bofors AB for engaging a proposal to supply India's 155 mm field howitzer.



The scale of the corruption was so worse that it led to the crush of Gandhi's ruling in the Indian national Congress party. It was hypnotized that the level of the scandal was tuned to be about Rs. 400 million.

The middle man who was associated with this scandal was an Italian businessman named Ottavio Quattrocchi and who also represented the petrochemicals firm, Snamprogetti.

Quattrocchi was very intimate to the family and emerged as a influential broker in the 1980‘s between big business and the Government of India.

Despite the controversy, the Bofor gun was used extensively during the Kargil War with Pakistan and gave India ‘an edge' over Pakistan according to battlefield comrades.




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