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LokeshC wrote:TOIlet's Chidanand Rajghatta spins it the toilet way:

Long arm of US law nails Andhra MP KVP Ramachandra Rao in bribery case

Washing the unwashed going on with full steam. It might be a warning to our top layer that their balls will be firmly squeezed by unkil when the time comes.

ramana wrote:Something odd is going on here.

US indicts Ukranian Oligarch for bribing Andhra Pradesh govt officials

Included are KVPR Rao who is a YSR acolyte.

Is US now taking care of GOI responsibility? Has MMS surrendered completely?

The charges said US laws applied because the conspiracy involved using US financial institutions, travel to and from the United States, and use of US-based communications -- computers, telephones, and the Internet. - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-new ... VAcJR.dpuf

Firtash, 48, a close associate of ousted pro-Russia president Viktor Yanukovych, was arrested on US request on March 12 in Vienna and held for extradition -

Philip wrote:we saw the first "rat" to leave the sinking ship,none other than the US ambassador herself. She read the writing on the wall!

Rather than the apparent cause-effect sequence suggested by the article, consider this: just before Dec. 2013, relations were going along reasonably well, a majority of Indians thought well of the US (and still do). But this is a simple issue. Under Nancy Powell's watch a couple of diplomats at the US Embassy effectively thought up a little human-trafficking scheme whereby they would charge an Indian diplomat in the US with slavery, while using that charge to enable the "anti-slavery" visa option for husband and chileren of the so-called "slave" working for that diplomat. Why the two diplomats did it, is anyone's guess - but the potential causes are many; ranging from the misplaced "do-gooder" instincts - that basically means "we'll do whatever it takes to make you third worlders do things the American way" - to a sense of Christian solidarity against the "upper caste Hindu" as the family who got their escape to the US were Christian. The problem is that the diplomat was not upper caste, and it appears that the American diplomats were the simple-minded victims of a scam by their Indian servant family; the Indian couple are now in divorce court.

Meanwhile, the American Embassy School in New Delhi was openly encouraging employees wives to avoid taxes by mislabelling their tax forms while taking up the jobs as teachers (doesn't this break US law?), openly derogatory comments about India and Indians were posted on diplomats facebook accounts, etc.All this happened under Powell's watch - and came into public attention as from last December, in a steady and almost daily trickle. But as State Department spokeswoman Harf said, any suggestion that Powell's previously unannounced retirement had anything to do with all that is "totally false".

To me that seems like a callous dismissal of and even contempt for the average American's intelligence.

The American Embassy School (AES) in New Delhi has landed in trouble, as many of its teachers had to leave after the Indian government declined to renew their visas in the wake of alleged violations of local laws by the institution and some of its employees.

Paul Chmelik, the director of the American Embassy School, recently admitted in a note that the premier institution was going through challenging times.

“Via messages from the principals, many of you are now aware that the departure of faculty members due to visa renewal issues has begun. Such departures may continue during the days ahead until a resolution to the issues are orchestrated by high-level diplomatic discussions that are taking place between the Government of India and the US Government,” Chmelik wrote in his community note on March 28 last.

Chmelik did not specify how many teachers had left after the Indian government declined to renew their visas. Sources, however, said that nearly 20 teachers had to leave over the past few weeks.

The AES, located on the Chandragupta Marg, adjacent to the US Embassy has about 1,500 students from nursery to 12th grade. About 35 per cent of them are Americans, while the rest are nationals of over 50 other countries. Most of the students are children of employees of the US and other countries’ embassies, local units of international organisations, global non-governmental organisations and executives of multinational companies.

The Ministry of External Affairs put the school under scanner after India and US engaged in a bitter diplomatic row in the wake of the arrest of Indian Foreign Service officer Devyani Khobragade in New York on December 12.

Chmelik noted that the school’s Board of Governors and the administrative team had been “working very hard the past three months” to ensure that the AES continued to “function in a stellar fashion”. The “past three months” in the AES director’s note apparently refers to the period that commenced after the Ministry of External Affairs asked for the visa status and salary details of all foreign employees of the AES.

“Now, you and your students are beginning to be impacted by the events that began back in December. Please know the principals will keep you posted should the potential absence of a teacher or counselor impact your student’s life at school,” he wrote in “Director’s Community Note” posted on the website of the AES.

ramana wrote:Real trouble starts when they are asked to pay back taxes. That has not happened. The abopve article is simple case of Indian media declarign victory when the battle has not begun.
Seein NaPo paco up Indian media is now on a frenzy with articles like this.

Real trouble starts when they are asked to pay back taxes.

UlanBatori wrote:

Real trouble starts when they are asked to pay back taxes.

We don't know that they haven't been asked. I suspect that the "negotiation" is about the amount, and who should pay. The tax-cheats will say that they were "only following orders", and claim Pain and Suffering for being exposed in the media. The IRS will laugh. GOI will simply send a Demand Notice.

Since this has been going on for decades, there may some serious negotiation about how far back to go. Technically the rule is that in fraud cases there is no statute of limitations, they can go back as far as they want.

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would benefit from these tax recoveries?

It was during the transit security check that the bullets were found in his luggage, said sources. The cop could not allegedly give a satisfactory answer. "An FIR (number 82) under Section 25 of Arms Act has been registered. He has been granted bail," said a source.
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He could end up doing plenty more time: NYPD has told him if he gets convicted of a felony, he'll lose his job.

UlanBatori wrote:
So these oiseueles' position is that if NYPD had NOT tortured the Indian diplomat, Americans should be allowed to go through Indian international airports with bullets, grenades, AK-47s bazookas etc in their baggage?

You must declare your ammunition to the airline. Failure to do so violates U.S. Federal Law. Violators may be subject to a maximum penalty of 5 years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine (49 U.S.C. 5124).

Gerard wrote:

You must declare your ammunition to the airline. Failure to do so violates U.S. Federal Law. Violators may be subject to a maximum penalty of 5 years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine (49 U.S.C. 5124).

Nandu wrote:LokeshC, this link has a picture of him. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... andal.html

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"inadvertently" traveling there with three bullets in his checked luggage.

This request is not about asking the media folks to have the ever illusive self-respect. This is just asking them to think critically.

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