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| India's ex-finance minister arrested in dramatic raid at his home |
| 2019-08-22 |
| [DAWN] High drama unfolded in New Delhi late Wednesday as officers from India's equivalent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation scaled the walls of a former finance minister's home to arrest him on corruption charges, local media reported. Earlier in the day, India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had alerted airports to prevent Palaniappan Chidambaram, finance minister from 2004-2008 and again from 2012-2014, from leaving the country. Chidambaram, 73, earlier this week failed to secure bail and had not been seen since Tuesday, until he showed up at the headquarters of the opposition Congress party on Wednesday to proclaim his innocence. At a news conference, he called his accusers "pathological liars". Driving then to his home in the upscale Jor Bagh neighbourhood, he was tailed by around 30 CBI officers who knocked at the doors before scaling the boundary walls, the Press Trust of India reported. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 While in fiercely liberal societies, jailing a Clinton or a Biden would be impossible, in our banana republic disguised as a democracy it's essentially realpolitik. A party comes to power, first thing it does is put away the ones leaving office for graft and criminality (it's always there). It's a surprise the authorities took so long to get this giant of the opposition forces. All in all, not a bad guy this one, even his infraction is a passable laundering of just $ 47 million loose change compared to other scams his party has pulled or so. The investigative agencies, courts, media - all work for the central gummint now. They can raise the dead to testify if they want, and people will have to believe it. Absolute power. One feature of that is, you have to ensure no one takes it from you. This one way of ensuring that. I'm not complaining though. Imagine if Trump could arbitrarily jail his detractors. What fun conservative officers and senators would have then, bringing him names of 'partisans' every day. Some sycophant agency heads would even take their own initiative, bring in DNC bigwigs bound and gagged for breaking speed limits ! What's happening is something like that. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-08-22 10:18 |
| #1 Taking a page from the Mueller handbook? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-08-22 09:41 |