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Dora Mauve
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Country: Bolivia
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Black Hawk Mining Fraud Warnings: Mining Scam Keeps Getting Bigger
Jun 17, 2013
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The epic proportions of the illegal mining scam that was uncovered by the Karnataka Lokayukta in its
2011 report may actually have been just one act of a much larger, more complex and multi-layered
drama.
There is now new evidence to suggest that the Lokayukta’s final report on illegal mining – a
political game-changer that sent the powerful to jail and catalysed a regime change in the state –
is just one part of the mining story. A six-month-long investigation by The Hindu, with help from
whistleblowers in the Railways, the Karnataka Commercial Taxes Department and the CBI, points to
losses to the State exchequer between January 2006 and December 2010 that are, at the very least,
Rs. 1 lakh crore or eight times the estimated figure given in the Lokayukta report. The
investigation also shows that the State lost Rs. 2,000 crore in commercial taxes.
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