I have said before that money raised by increasing taxes is being put into property and also being transferred abroad by hawala and then brought back through Mauritius and invested in the share market. This accounts for the phenomenal rise in both property and share prices in the last two years. On Friday, the 9th, the news broke that a Mr. Khan of Pune has three and a half billion rupees in Swiss banks which he transferred out through hawala route for the purpose of investing in shares. Some politicians are naturally mixed in it. By sunday the police were backtracking showing that the rot goes very high up indeed. Then we heard that the former Defence Minister in the BJP government Mr. Fernandes has said that he had been instructed by the then Prime Minister, Mr. Vajpai not to touch the Quatrocchi file. By the very next day he was claiming that he had been misunderstood and that Mr. Vajpai had been joking anyway. Soon as the Congress came to power the Central Bureau of Investigation defroze Q's assets held in London. Now that the Congress is in power they have not touched the Tehelka file or investigated the claims of buying coffins from an American company at exorbitant prices during the Kargil war. So it goes on. You scratchee my backee and I will scratchee your most honoured filthy backee. The putrid stink makes me sick but what can you do against people with no sharam or izzat. Last month an American diplomat claimed that India had been 'coerced' into voting against Iran at the IAEA meeting prompting Iran into cutting off gas supplies to India. So easy to blackmail these filthy criminals. This is not just a question of commissions or bribes, this is treason. Hang them I say.