Sunday, August 01, 2010

India's Commonwealth Games hit by corruption allegations...

The New Delhi Commonwealth Games was rocked by fresh scandal with reports Saturday alleging that building quality certificates had been faked as costs for the 12-day event ballooned.

With barely two months left to go before the opening of the Commonwealth Games in October, a flood of allegations of rampant corruption are emerging involving the sporting extravaganza.

"Fake certificates were routinely issued to pass substandard work and material," an unnamed official of the Central Vigilance Commission, a government watchdog body, was quoted as saying by the Times of India.

Other certificates were "suspect," he said. More...

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