India's Shocking Corruption Scams

Commonwealth games scam:

The Commonwealth Games is one the most well known scams. Suresh Kalmadi (then chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Commonwealth Games) was the main accused. The scam involved a number of corrupt deals involving overstated contracts. Kalmadi also handed out Rs 141 crore contracts to Swiss Timing for its timing equipment; the deal was inflated by Rs 95 crores. Several problems related to the 2010 Commonwealth Games were highlighted by Indian investigative agencies and media outlets, which include — serious corruption by officials of the Games' Organising Committee, delays in the construction of main Games' venues, infrastructural compromise, possibility of a terrorist attack, and exceptionally poor ticket sales before the event. On April 25, 2011 Kalmadi was arrested by CBI for awarding illegal contracts to a Swiss firm for Timing-Scoring-Result (TSR) system for the 2010 Commonwealth Games causing a loss to the exchequer of Rs 95 crore.

Bellary mines scandal:

Illegal iron ore mining was found to be taking place in the Bellary region of Karnataka. The illegal mining started after paying a tiny royalty to the government. The major regularities involved were G. Karunakara Reddy and G. Janardhana Reddy who were ministers in the Government of Karnataka and also the owners of Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC).

This scam led to the resignation of its chief minister B S Yeddyurappa. Then Lokayukta of Karnataka, Justice Santosh Hegde published a report saying there was corruption and that the chief minister and his family members were found guilty of taking bribes in the form of donations to their trusts from mining companies as well as overpricing land they sold to the companies, in exchange for issuing mining leases. The state government lost Rs 16,085 crore due to this.