Thursday, May 10, 2012

Long View: India’s Very First Corruption Scandal

............Ostensibly, the shares were purchased by LIC to stabilize the market; in reality, they had the effect of bailing out a suspect businessman, and the puzzling order to do so seemed to have come from within the highest reaches of government. Mr. Mundhra benefited significantly; in an internal letter, A. Raman, a research officer with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in Calcutta, wrote in July 1957: “The truth is that Mundhra is now on a slightly firmer ground although he is far from being out of the woods.”.............

1 comment:

sarvesh said...

A very informative article. I only wish that we had more people like shri M.C.Chagla. As ab exrbite, I feel very proud of Shri A.Raman and would like to hear directly from him about this scandal. sarveswara