TIOL-DDT 158 · Friday, 15 July 2005 · story 4 of 5

We Double you – it can be Volks Wagen (VW) or Vashisht Wahan (VW)

The Andhra Pradesh Government has egg on its face – whatever dace they can show. In the oldest con game, somebody just walked off with about 11 Crores of rupees from the Government. Small contractors will find it difficult to get 11,000 rupees from the Government. The state government was so enamoured with the German car maker Volks Wagen that when the car company’s representative Helmut Schuster asked for a payment of 11 Crores to a fake company called Vashisht Wahan another VW, the state government simply paid up. In the meantime Schuster resigned from Volkswagen amidst scandals of bribery and sex. The major car maker is in trouble with such deep scandals. The company executives are even accused of flying prostitutes round the world. The AP government has only been cheated but the cheats were Germans. Will Transparency International take note?