SCAM Nation INDIA – List of all Scams since 1948

 1948 – Jeep Scandal

 1949 –  diamond mining lease scam

1958 –  LIC scam or scandal.

1959 – Bharat Insurance Company, scam –  Rs 2.2 crore

1960, shipping company loan scam –  Rs 22 crore

1965, Kalinga Tubes, scam

1970 – Nagarwala Scandal –  Rs 60 lakh.

1974 –Maruti Scandal

1976 – Oil Scam – Rs13 crore.

1980 – THAL Vaishet project scam

1981 – Maharashtra Cement Scam Scandal

1986 – German Submarine Scam

1987 – Bofors Scam  – Rs 64 crore

1987 – HDW Commissions Scam – Rs 20 Crore

1991 – Jain hawala case – Rs 64-crore

1991 – Harshad Mehta Scam –  Rs 10,000 crore securities scandal.

1991 – 1997 Fodder Scam – Rs 950 crore

1996 – M Gopalakrishnan, loans scam – Rs 1,500 crore

1996 – Telecom Scandal –  $1 million in small-denomination rupee notes was found in the homes of Sukh Ram. Runu Ghosh

1996 – Cobbler co-operatives Scam – ? crore

1996 – Tree Plantation Scam – ? crore

1996 – Urea Deal  Scam – 133 Crore

1997 – Chain Roop Bhansali’s CRB – 1000 crore .

2000 – Mutual Fund Scam or Scandal –  Rs 4,800 crore

2000 – Match Fixing Scam – Rs. ?

2002 – Ketan Parekh Share UTI scam – 32 crore

January 2005

  • Telgi Scam – 171 crores – 
  • Mayawati’s Taj Corridor- 175 crores
  • Motilal Goel Scam – 1000 crore

 

February 2005

  • West Bengal Telecom Scam – 400 crores
  • India’s unchecked textbooks racket – estimated 225 crores
  • Urea Scam – 133 crores

 

March 2005

  • Meghalaya lottery scam – 25000 crore

 

April 2005

  • Ration Card Scam – 3 crore
  • Car Financing Scam – ? crore
  • Junior Basic Trained teachers’ recruitment scam- ? crore

 

May 2005

  • Flood Relief Scam – 13 crores

June 2005

  • Temple Lands Scam – 30 crores
  • Franking Scam – 30 crores

July 2005

  • Volkswagon Equity Scam – 11 crores
  • National Slum Development Programme – 1.52 crores
  • Kerala State Electricity Board – 89.32 crores

August 2005

  • Indian Oil Corporation Scam – ? crores

September 2005

  • Scam  investigation of scam Rs.89000 crores
  • Nagmani Scam – 1.5crore
  • Stamp Scam (Goa) – 30.19 crore

October 2005 

  • Evasion of duty on High End Car’s – ? crore
  • Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida) land scam – ? crore
  • Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) Scam- 9.1 crore

 November 2005

  • Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) Scam – ? crores
  • National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) Scam – 250 crores –

December 2005

  • Election Fund Scam – ? Crores
  • Operation Blackboard scam – 1000 crores
  • Oil for Food Scam – ?

January 2006

  • Rice Scam – 320 crores
  • Benami Demat Scam – 30 crores

February 2006

  • Benami IPO Scam – 32 crores
  • Liquor Scam – 3600 crores

March 2006

  • The controversial Scorpene Deal – ? crores

April 2006

  • MTNL GSM Scam – 450 crore

May 2006

  • Chautala Scam – 1400 crores
  • BPL Red Cards Scam – 1400 crores

June  2006

  • The Great Wheat Scam – ?
  • UTI Franchisee forgery – ? crores
  • Punjab State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT) Scam – more than 3 crores

July 2006

  • BPO Scam – more than 3 crore
  • Bellary bribe – 150 crore
  • Duty Exemption Pass Book (DEPB) scheme Scam – 10 crore

August 2006

  • Unaccounted money on sale of petrol pumps – 18 crores
  • Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh goes on a multi-crore holiday extravaganza – 2.5 crores
  • Tata Finance scandal – ? crores

September 2006

  • Top Punjab cops booked for wireless sets scam – 5 crores
  • Koda Scandal – 2500 crores
  • Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh in real estate fraud – more than 2100 crores 

October 20066

  • SEZ Controversies – RBI fears of a revenue loss — some Rs. 170,000 crore
  • Barak Missile Deal – 400 crore
  • Blood Test Kit Scam – ??

November 2006

  • Bangalore Development Authority and Bangalore Mahanagara Palike on illegal constructions – 180 crore
  • NSDL and CDSL  bags illegitimate profits in an IPO manipulation scam– 116 crore

December 2006

  • SMS Con – 40-100 crore (Read more 1)
  • Agrofed job scam – ? crore
  • Haj Quota scam- bribes taken to illegally procure seats from the Government’s subsidised Haj quota for 1 lakh muslims.

January 2007

  • Illegal Telephone Exchanges Scam – 1000 crores
  • Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) Scam – swindled 12,000 crores

February 2007

  • Uranium Corporation of India Limited Scam – 20 crores
  • Oriental Bank Scam – 596.44 crores
  • Mandankumar Scam – 3.5 crores  March 2007
  • Pune Hassan Ali Khan Scam – 50 crores
  • Congress MP Moni Kumar Subba from Tezpur, lied about his Indian nationality for 16 years manages to scam the country off by 25000 crores

April 2007

  • Air Ticket Booking Scam – 13 crores
  • The Royapettah Benefit Fund (RBF) in Chennai went bust drowning Rs 450 crore
  • Fertilizers Subsidies Scam – ? crores

May 2007

  • Arunachal Pradesh’s corrupt governance: 1000 crores
  • Sampoorn Gramin Rojgar Yogana Scam –  457 crores
  • Warehouse Receipts Scandal – 500 crores

July 2007

  • Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited (SHCIL) Scam – ?
  • Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB)Scam – ?
  • Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) recruitment scam – 8 crores

August 2007

  • Delhi Development Authority canteen owner Ashok Malhotra Scam – Rs. ? crores
  • Former Supreme Court Chief Justice YK Sabharwal was involved in dubious judicial deal-making that earned his sons huge profits. – ? croreSeptember 2007
  • Kerala State Cooperative Bank Scam – 2000 crores
  • Aircraft Import Scam – 1059 crores
  • Leave Travel Concession (LTC) Scam – loss of Rs 200 crore to Government and PSUs.
  • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Land Scam – ? crores

October 2007

  • Das filed the petition challenging the actions of the banks in waiving of around Rs 2,300 crore
  • Fake housing projects in north India – 500 crores – 
  • Kidney Transplant Racket – ? crores 
  • National Relief Fund (PMNRF). Scam Coal India Ltd illegally diverted at least Rs10 crore

December 2007

  • Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) Land Scam – 6 crores

January 2008

  • Punjab VB arrests whistle-blower

February 2008

  • Kolkotta Museum Scam – 18 crores

April 2008

  • BCCI Dalmiya Scam – ? crores
  • Illegal export of sandalwood – 5 crores

June 2008

  • Madhya Pradesh Health Minister Ajay Vishnoi quits after Income Tax raid on brother’s premises – 500 crore
  • Hotel Le Meridien Credit card skimming – 1 crore

July 2008

  • Parliamentary horse trading – ? crores
  • Ghaziabad Provident Fund scam – 23 crores

August 2008

  • Fake Currency Scam in Uttar Pradesh Bank – 1.5 crores

September 2008

  • Fake RBI Cheques Scam – 14 crores

October 2008

  • Shirdi Ghat Repair – ? crores

November 2008

  • Mid Day Meal Scam – 15.37 crores
  • 2G Spectrum Scam – 1,76,000 crores 
  • Satyam Computer’s Emergency Management Research Institute (EMRI) Ambulance Services Scam – 5600 crores

December 2008

  • E-ticketing fraud – 5 crores

January 2009

  • 11 Directors of National Agricultural Marketing Federation of India(Nafed) face criminal action in a Rs3,700 crore fraud.
  • Satyam Fraud – 7 to 14000 crores

May 2009

  • Computer Purchasing Fraud – 1.53 crores
  • Divine Homeopath Investment Manager – 1600 crore
  • Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) arms deal scam – 5 crores – 

June 2009

  • Ashok Jadeja Divine Ayurved and Money Multiplier – 100 to 1600 crores (Read more 1)
  • MCD 45000 Fake Employees Scam – 500-1000 crores annually

July 2009

  • Bitumen Scam – more than 100 crores
  • Chhattisgarh Paddy Scam – 4000 crores

August 2009

  • All India Council of Technical Education bribery scam – ? crores –
  • Metal Scrap Scam – ? crores
  • SBI Kanpur – 52 crores – 

September 2009

  • Austra Coke – 1000 crores
  • Bollywood star Nasir Khan figures in multi crore rupee chit fund scam – 191 crore

October 2009

  • Gold Quest Scam – 1100 crore

December 2009

  • Dr Suresh Dhotre medicine fraud – 47 crores

January 2010

  • IAS officer Pradeep Sharma Bheed Bazaar Land allotment scam – 70 crores
  • Railways and LIC Scam – 400 crores

February 2010

  • Bhopal Home Loan Scam – 2 crores
  • Wipro Embezzlement Fraud – 180 crores
  • Chak De India Scam – ?
  • PAN Card Scam – 3 crores

 March 2010

  • Kandla Port Trust (KPT) Scam – ? crores
  • Fake Income Tax Returns Scam – 6 crores

April 2010

  • President of the Medical Council of India (MCI), Dr Ketan Desai in college scam – 500 crores
  • Financial Fraud hits 87% of Indian companies

June 2010

  • Canara Bank defrauded – 9.14 crore
  • Railway Recruitment Board Paper Leak – 15.5 crore (Read more 1 2)

July 2010

  • Lalit Modi Indian Premier League (IPL) Scam – 1200 crores (Read more 1)

August 2010

  • Commonwealth Games Scam – 8000 crores (Read more 1 2)

September 2010

  • Senior citizen savings scheme (SCSS) Post Office Scam – 2 crores (Read more 1)

October 2010

  • International Film Festival of India  (IFFI) Infrastructure creation  Scam in Goa – ? crores
  • Adarsh Society Scam – ? crores

November 2010

  • State-owned Mineral Scrap Trading Corporation (MSTC) was defraudedby jewelery traders – 1400 crores

December 2010

  • Citibank swindle – 300 crores

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