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Nepal is literally between rock and a hard place. But in my country, India, there is plenty of this kind of corruption going on.
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> I wager that the wealth of those cronies doesn't come close to my western living standards, so who am I to judge?
They are in no way implicated in this particular case but corruption in India can pay very handsomely
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Adani#Career
Lookup his brother too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautam_Adani#Career (read the second half closely)
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Nepal is literally between rock and a hard place. But in my country, India, there is plenty of this kind of corruption going on.
EDIT:
> I wager that the wealth of those cronies doesn't come close to my western living standards, so who am I to judge?
They are in no way implicated in this particular case but corruption in India can pay very handsomely
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Adani#Career
Lookup his brother too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautam_Adani#Career (read the second half closely)