Rediff Chat: The man who exposed the 2G scam

Vinod Rai, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India till May and probably the most talked-about government official in the last few years, participated in a Live Chat with readers of Rediff.com on Friday. During the chat, the man who unearthed scams like coal-gate and the 2G spectrum case, answered a range of queries. Here is the transcript of the chat: Ashish Rajput: Hello Sir, I hold great respect for you for the work done by you during your stint as CAG of India. You have revamped the ...

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Former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai spoke to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar, in his first TV interview two, on two reports that attracted great public interest - 2G and Coalgate report. Karan Thapar:Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate and the ...

Defending the decision to calculate presumptive loss in the 2G spectrum case, former CAG Vinod Rai has said that "no fault had been found in the auditing framework" in a peer review conducted by the Auditor General of Australia. "The CAG audit was based on ...