Source: The South Asian Post

By Mata Press Service

Indian police have been tasked with getting to the bottom of a "promise" by Quebec-based engineering conglomerate, SNC Lavalin, to provide Canadian aid to Kerala in exchange for it getting a multi-million dollar hydro-electric project.

The money - about C$26 million for a cancer hospital - has not shown up, 10 years after the contract was awarded. Now the Kerala High Court has ordered India’s Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct an inquiry into the case, which is being described as the Southern state’s biggest corruption scandal.

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Posted by pichu at February 12, 2007 11:00 AM