Scania scam

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Shambhavi Thakur

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On March 9, when an investigation by Swedish network SVT, Germany’s Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, or ZDF, and India’s Confluence Media claimed that road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari had received a luxury bus from Swedish truck and bus maker Scania for personal use as a kickback, the denial was immediate and definite.

The minister called the allegations against him and his family “malicious, fabricated and baseless”. A few days later, in an interview with the Print, he accused the reporters of not doing due diligence while claiming that Scania had denied gifting any bus to him.

The minister’s claims are misleading, if not an outright lie. There is now irrefutable evidence in the form of mobile chats, emails, contracts, receipts, and unsecured loan transfers that establish the active role of Gadkari’s family in accessing the luxury bus from Scania.

The reporters are in possession of an internal investigation report commissioned by Scania that calls the bus a kickback for Gadkari, and leaked communications over three years between Gadkari’s sons, companies linked to them and Scania India officials. All these communications have been verified by forensic experts in India and Sweden.

The report clearly states that Nitin Gadkari and his sons, Sarang and Nikhil, were the actual acquirers of the bus.

Sarang and Nikhil were in direct touch with a top executive at Scania’s Indian subsidiary – Scania Commercial Vehicles India Private Limited – at every step of the deal for the bus, which was allegedly used at the lavish wedding of their sister Ketki Gadkari in Nagpur in December 2016

Multiple Scania AB officials in Sweden, including the CEO, have confirmed that the bus was meant for Ketki’s wedding and that top Scania India employees were aware of the real intention behind the deal.

Internal communications show the deal for the “bus for the minister” was discussed among top Scania India employees.

Scania and the Gadkari brothers sealed the deal by hiding behind small, unknown private companies, but there is enough evidence that the bus was actually meant for the “minister” and his family, notes the internal investigation.

In the course of 18 months, from when discussions about the deal began to when the bus was delivered to Nagpur, Sarang visited Scania’s factory in Bengaluru allegedly to “inspect the bus”. He also twice visited a private design firm in Pune, Dilip Chhabria Design Private Limited, or DC Design, which modified the interiors of the bus as per the Gadkari brothers’ wishes. He was accompanied by a Scania official on all the visits.

While Sarang was regularly informed about the development of the bus, Nikhil was in direct communication with a Scania executive at the beginning and end of the deal. In fact, requests for clearing payments for the bus also went to the Gadkari brothers instead of the company that actually rented the Scania bus.

A company run by Sarang, where Nikhil also holds an important position, gave an unsecured loan to the company which got the bus on lease. This loan allegedly covered a part of the security deposit for the bus. Nitin Gadkari has denied any link with the firm that rented the bus.

Scania’s investigation does not give a clean chit even to the company that financed the bus, Volkswagen Finance Private Limited. It notes that Volkswagen Finance knew the bus was for the minister and deliberately didn’t check the backgrounds and financial stability of the companies involved before sanctioning the loan. Volkswagen Finance is a part of Volkswagen AG, which is based in Germany. And Volkswagen AG is the parent company of Scania AB.

Once the bus was delivered to Nagpur, its full rent and security deposit was never paid either by the front company or by the Gadkari family. As a result, the company which had purchased the bus from Scania started defaulting on the loan. The entire burden of the bus, its expensive modifications and the piling interest on the loan, fell on Scania, which had provided a 100 percent guarantee for it.

So, Scania covered the cost of this bus from its own pocket and, despite strong evidence, never reported the alleged corruption to authorities either in Sweden or in India.

The denial and the lies

The allegation of corruption in the sale of the customised Scania Metrolink K410 bus with reclining red leather seats, pantry, vinyl flooring, changing room, music systems, and TV sets was first brought to the notice of the Scania Group Internal Audit team, or GIA, in November 2017.

The team, with its members in Sweden and Germany, concluded in November 2018 that the bus constituted a financial benefit to the minister and his family. And the extent of the benefit, says the investigation report, should be subject to legal assessment.

The bus was sold by Scania to a transport firm in Bengaluru, called Transpro Motors Private Limited, in 2015. It was then modified by DC Design and another private Indian company, and given on rent to a hospitality firm in Nagpur called Sudarshan Hospitality Management Services Private Limited in November 2016.

The GIA report states that Transpro Motors and Sudarshan Hospitality had no actual connection to the bus, they were merely used as fronts for the deal.

The bus was acquired with a loan from Volkswagen Finance. The deal happened through Scania Commercial Vehicles India, which gave a 100 percent guarantee for the loan. Full instalments for the bus remained unpaid until the end of the lease period. As a result, the burden of the entire deal, amounting to Rs 2.2 crore, fell on Scania India.

Volkswagen Finance says it has reclaimed the bus and recovered the cost. Though it has recovered the cost from Scania, it hasn’t produced any evidence to support its claim that it reclaimed the bus.

Two days after the story of this Scania luxury bus and how it exchanged hands to reach the alleged actual beneficiary was released by ZDF, SVT and Confluence Media, a lawyer for Nitin Gatkari sent a letter to SVT to take down the story. SVT refused.

Back in India, Nitin Gadkari’s office called this an internal matter of Scania and said the minister and his family had nothing to do with either the purchase or sale of any Scania bus or any firm or individual who might be linked with it.

While the Indian minister washed his hands off the deal, Scania tried to mislead and cover its corrupt actions by allegedly lying on record.

Scania AB pretended to punish its officials who were allegedly involved in the corrupt deal by terminating their contracts. But digging deeper into the claims made by Scania confirms that the company not only suppressed the internal investigation report for two and a half years after it was submitted with supporting evidence, it also retained some of the indicted employees.

Scania AB and Volkswagen AG, which sourced and financed the bus, respectively, gave conflicting accounts of where the luxury bus is now and who its owner is.

The setup

Scania AB incorporated its India office in 2011 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Eyeing India’s large market for heavy vehicles, in March 2015, the company inaugurated its bus and truck manufacturing factory in Narsapura, on the outskirts of Bengaluru, with an investment of Rs 300 crore.

It was flagged as one of the big successes of prime minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ campaign, launched in 2014.

 

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Shambhavi Thakur

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On March 9, when an investigation by Swedish network SVT, Germany’s Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, or ZDF, and India’s Confluence Media claimed that road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari had received a luxury bus from Swedish truck and bus maker Scania for personal use as a kickback, the denial was immediate and definite.

The minister called the allegations against him and his family “malicious, fabricated and baseless”. A few days later, in an interview with the Print, he accused the reporters of not doing due diligence while claiming that Scania had denied gifting any bus to him.

The minister’s claims are misleading, if not an outright lie. There is now irrefutable evidence in the form of mobile chats, emails, contracts, receipts, and unsecured loan transfers that establish the active role of Gadkari’s family in accessing the luxury bus from Scania.

The reporters are in possession of an internal investigation report commissioned by Scania that calls the bus a kickback for Gadkari, and leaked communications over three years between Gadkari’s sons, companies linked to them and Scania India officials. All these communications have been verified by forensic experts in India and Sweden.

The report clearly states that Nitin Gadkari and his sons, Sarang and Nikhil, were the actual acquirers of the bus.

Sarang and Nikhil were in direct touch with a top executive at Scania’s Indian subsidiary – Scania Commercial Vehicles India Private Limited – at every step of the deal for the bus, which was allegedly used at the lavish wedding of their sister Ketki Gadkari in Nagpur in December 2016

Multiple Scania AB officials in Sweden, including the CEO, have confirmed that the bus was meant for Ketki’s wedding and that top Scania India employees were aware of the real intention behind the deal.

Internal communications show the deal for the “bus for the minister” was discussed among top Scania India employees.

Scania and the Gadkari brothers sealed the deal by hiding behind small, unknown private companies, but there is enough evidence that the bus was actually meant for the “minister” and his family, notes the internal investigation.

In the course of 18 months, from when discussions about the deal began to when the bus was delivered to Nagpur, Sarang visited Scania’s factory in Bengaluru allegedly to “inspect the bus”. He also twice visited a private design firm in Pune, Dilip Chhabria Design Private Limited, or DC Design, which modified the interiors of the bus as per the Gadkari brothers’ wishes. He was accompanied by a Scania official on all the visits.

While Sarang was regularly informed about the development of the bus, Nikhil was in direct communication with a Scania executive at the beginning and end of the deal. In fact, requests for clearing payments for the bus also went to the Gadkari brothers instead of the company that actually rented the Scania bus.

A company run by Sarang, where Nikhil also holds an important position, gave an unsecured loan to the company which got the bus on lease. This loan allegedly covered a part of the security deposit for the bus. Nitin Gadkari has denied any link with the firm that rented the bus.

Scania’s investigation does not give a clean chit even to the company that financed the bus, Volkswagen Finance Private Limited. It notes that Volkswagen Finance knew the bus was for the minister and deliberately didn’t check the backgrounds and financial stability of the companies involved before sanctioning the loan. Volkswagen Finance is a part of Volkswagen AG, which is based in Germany. And Volkswagen AG is the parent company of Scania AB.

Once the bus was delivered to Nagpur, its full rent and security deposit was never paid either by the front company or by the Gadkari family. As a result, the company which had purchased the bus from Scania started defaulting on the loan. The entire burden of the bus, its expensive modifications and the piling interest on the loan, fell on Scania, which had provided a 100 percent guarantee for it.

So, Scania covered the cost of this bus from its own pocket and, despite strong evidence, never reported the alleged corruption to authorities either in Sweden or in India.

The denial and the lies

The allegation of corruption in the sale of the customised Scania Metrolink K410 bus with reclining red leather seats, pantry, vinyl flooring, changing room, music systems, and TV sets was first brought to the notice of the Scania Group Internal Audit team, or GIA, in November 2017.

The team, with its members in Sweden and Germany, concluded in November 2018 that the bus constituted a financial benefit to the minister and his family. And the extent of the benefit, says the investigation report, should be subject to legal assessment.

The bus was sold by Scania to a transport firm in Bengaluru, called Transpro Motors Private Limited, in 2015. It was then modified by DC Design and another private Indian company, and given on rent to a hospitality firm in Nagpur called Sudarshan Hospitality Management Services Private Limited in November 2016.

The GIA report states that Transpro Motors and Sudarshan Hospitality had no actual connection to the bus, they were merely used as fronts for the deal.

The bus was acquired with a loan from Volkswagen Finance. The deal happened through Scania Commercial Vehicles India, which gave a 100 percent guarantee for the loan. Full instalments for the bus remained unpaid until the end of the lease period. As a result, the burden of the entire deal, amounting to Rs 2.2 crore, fell on Scania India.

Volkswagen Finance says it has reclaimed the bus and recovered the cost. Though it has recovered the cost from Scania, it hasn’t produced any evidence to support its claim that it reclaimed the bus.

Two days after the story of this Scania luxury bus and how it exchanged hands to reach the alleged actual beneficiary was released by ZDF, SVT and Confluence Media, a lawyer for Nitin Gatkari sent a letter to SVT to take down the story. SVT refused.

Back in India, Nitin Gadkari’s office called this an internal matter of Scania and said the minister and his family had nothing to do with either the purchase or sale of any Scania bus or any firm or individual who might be linked with it.

While the Indian minister washed his hands off the deal, Scania tried to mislead and cover its corrupt actions by allegedly lying on record.

Scania AB pretended to punish its officials who were allegedly involved in the corrupt deal by terminating their contracts. But digging deeper into the claims made by Scania confirms that the company not only suppressed the internal investigation report for two and a half years after it was submitted with supporting evidence, it also retained some of the indicted employees.

Scania AB and Volkswagen AG, which sourced and financed the bus, respectively, gave conflicting accounts of where the luxury bus is now and who its owner is.

The setup

Scania AB incorporated its India office in 2011 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Eyeing India’s large market for heavy vehicles, in March 2015, the company inaugurated its bus and truck manufacturing factory in Narsapura, on the outskirts of Bengaluru, with an investment of Rs 300 crore.

It was flagged as one of the big successes of prime minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ campaign, launched in 2014.

 

Scania Bus cost enta untundi ?

1 cr ,2 Cr ?

 

[Polavaram]

Scania scam

 

[psycontr]

26 minutes ago, kakatiya said:

Shambhavi Thakur

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On March 9, when an investigation by Swedish network SVT, Germany’s Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, or ZDF, and India’s Confluence Media claimed that road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari had received a luxury bus from Swedish truck and bus maker Scania for personal use as a kickback, the denial was immediate and definite.

The minister called the allegations against him and his family “malicious, fabricated and baseless”. A few days later, in an interview with the Print, he accused the reporters of not doing due diligence while claiming that Scania had denied gifting any bus to him.

The minister’s claims are misleading, if not an outright lie. There is now irrefutable evidence in the form of mobile chats, emails, contracts, receipts, and unsecured loan transfers that establish the active role of Gadkari’s family in accessing the luxury bus from Scania.

The reporters are in possession of an internal investigation report commissioned by Scania that calls the bus a kickback for Gadkari, and leaked communications over three years between Gadkari’s sons, companies linked to them and Scania India officials. All these communications have been verified by forensic experts in India and Sweden.

The report clearly states that Nitin Gadkari and his sons, Sarang and Nikhil, were the actual acquirers of the bus.

Sarang and Nikhil were in direct touch with a top executive at Scania’s Indian subsidiary – Scania Commercial Vehicles India Private Limited – at every step of the deal for the bus, which was allegedly used at the lavish wedding of their sister Ketki Gadkari in Nagpur in December 2016

Multiple Scania AB officials in Sweden, including the CEO, have confirmed that the bus was meant for Ketki’s wedding and that top Scania India employees were aware of the real intention behind the deal.

Internal communications show the deal for the “bus for the minister” was discussed among top Scania India employees.

Scania and the Gadkari brothers sealed the deal by hiding behind small, unknown private companies, but there is enough evidence that the bus was actually meant for the “minister” and his family, notes the internal investigation.

In the course of 18 months, from when discussions about the deal began to when the bus was delivered to Nagpur, Sarang visited Scania’s factory in Bengaluru allegedly to “inspect the bus”. He also twice visited a private design firm in Pune, Dilip Chhabria Design Private Limited, or DC Design, which modified the interiors of the bus as per the Gadkari brothers’ wishes. He was accompanied by a Scania official on all the visits.

While Sarang was regularly informed about the development of the bus, Nikhil was in direct communication with a Scania executive at the beginning and end of the deal. In fact, requests for clearing payments for the bus also went to the Gadkari brothers instead of the company that actually rented the Scania bus.

A company run by Sarang, where Nikhil also holds an important position, gave an unsecured loan to the company which got the bus on lease. This loan allegedly covered a part of the security deposit for the bus. Nitin Gadkari has denied any link with the firm that rented the bus.

Scania’s investigation does not give a clean chit even to the company that financed the bus, Volkswagen Finance Private Limited. It notes that Volkswagen Finance knew the bus was for the minister and deliberately didn’t check the backgrounds and financial stability of the companies involved before sanctioning the loan. Volkswagen Finance is a part of Volkswagen AG, which is based in Germany. And Volkswagen AG is the parent company of Scania AB.

Once the bus was delivered to Nagpur, its full rent and security deposit was never paid either by the front company or by the Gadkari family. As a result, the company which had purchased the bus from Scania started defaulting on the loan. The entire burden of the bus, its expensive modifications and the piling interest on the loan, fell on Scania, which had provided a 100 percent guarantee for it.

So, Scania covered the cost of this bus from its own pocket and, despite strong evidence, never reported the alleged corruption to authorities either in Sweden or in India.

The denial and the lies

The allegation of corruption in the sale of the customised Scania Metrolink K410 bus with reclining red leather seats, pantry, vinyl flooring, changing room, music systems, and TV sets was first brought to the notice of the Scania Group Internal Audit team, or GIA, in November 2017.

The team, with its members in Sweden and Germany, concluded in November 2018 that the bus constituted a financial benefit to the minister and his family. And the extent of the benefit, says the investigation report, should be subject to legal assessment.

The bus was sold by Scania to a transport firm in Bengaluru, called Transpro Motors Private Limited, in 2015. It was then modified by DC Design and another private Indian company, and given on rent to a hospitality firm in Nagpur called Sudarshan Hospitality Management Services Private Limited in November 2016.

The GIA report states that Transpro Motors and Sudarshan Hospitality had no actual connection to the bus, they were merely used as fronts for the deal.

The bus was acquired with a loan from Volkswagen Finance. The deal happened through Scania Commercial Vehicles India, which gave a 100 percent guarantee for the loan. Full instalments for the bus remained unpaid until the end of the lease period. As a result, the burden of the entire deal, amounting to Rs 2.2 crore, fell on Scania India.

Volkswagen Finance says it has reclaimed the bus and recovered the cost. Though it has recovered the cost from Scania, it hasn’t produced any evidence to support its claim that it reclaimed the bus.

Two days after the story of this Scania luxury bus and how it exchanged hands to reach the alleged actual beneficiary was released by ZDF, SVT and Confluence Media, a lawyer for Nitin Gatkari sent a letter to SVT to take down the story. SVT refused.

Back in India, Nitin Gadkari’s office called this an internal matter of Scania and said the minister and his family had nothing to do with either the purchase or sale of any Scania bus or any firm or individual who might be linked with it.

While the Indian minister washed his hands off the deal, Scania tried to mislead and cover its corrupt actions by allegedly lying on record.

Scania AB pretended to punish its officials who were allegedly involved in the corrupt deal by terminating their contracts. But digging deeper into the claims made by Scania confirms that the company not only suppressed the internal investigation report for two and a half years after it was submitted with supporting evidence, it also retained some of the indicted employees.

Scania AB and Volkswagen AG, which sourced and financed the bus, respectively, gave conflicting accounts of where the luxury bus is now and who its owner is.

The setup

Scania AB incorporated its India office in 2011 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Eyeing India’s large market for heavy vehicles, in March 2015, the company inaugurated its bus and truck manufacturing factory in Narsapura, on the outskirts of Bengaluru, with an investment of Rs 300 crore.

It was flagged as one of the big successes of prime minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ campaign, launched in 2014.

 

Not even 0.001% in 2g scam

[Android_Halwa]

19 minutes ago, pichhipullayya said:

Scania Bus cost enta untundi ?

1 cr ,2 Cr ?

 

Bus could be 1-2crs but edo expensive modifications anta…Mantri gari range lo expensive modifications ante gattigane ayi vuntadi..

[pichhipullayya]

2 minutes ago, Android_Halwa said:

Bus could be 1-2crs but edo expensive modifications anta…Mantri gari range lo expensive modifications ante gattigane ayi vuntadi..

As a result, the burden of the entire deal, amounting to Rs 2.2 crore, fell on Scania India.

Volkswagen Finance says it has reclaimed the bus and recovered the cost. Though it has recovered the cost from Scania, it hasn’t produced any evidence to support its claim that it reclaimed the bus.

mari inta chinna scam aa Khangress vallu navvutaaru

[kakatiya]

7 minutes ago, psycontr said:

Not even 0.001% in 2g scam

0.0000001% of 5g mega scam.

[psycontr]

3 minutes ago, kakatiya said:

0.0000001% of 5g mega scam.

Article 370, Ram mandir, Pakistan, China

[shaktimaan]

adenti punya purushulu scam lu cheyyaru kada desam kosam pranalu saitam tyagam chese manushulu veellu avi chesedi opposide side. leni poni news create chesi imbalance create chesthunnaru anti national elements 

[psycontr]

1 minute ago, shaktimaan said:

adenti punya purushulu scam lu cheyyaru kada avi chesedi opposide side. leni poni news create chesi imbalance create chesthunnaru anti national elements 

Yes andhuke Modi gadkari ne dooram pettadu even for a small gift.

[Raisins_72]

Vodiyamma, 2.2 crores anta 😂😂😂 - monna maa TG lo oka mandal officer ni pattukuntey 150crores mingaadu kadha ra 😂😂😂