The sudden appearance of Kola Krishna Mohan, the Euro lottery scamster of 1999, before the media on Saturday and the massive coverage he had got in Sakshi channel and the daily belonging to YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, has raised many eyebrows.
Krishna Mohan’s revelations against Naidu’s Swiss bank accounts along with the cash balances in them surprised everybody, particularly those who are aware of how the banks in Switzerland operate and maintain secrecy about their clients’ accounts. Even the clients do not reveal their accounts to anybody. So, one gets the doubt whether Naidu had given his Swiss Bank account numbers to Krishna Mohan and asked him to transfer the amount to those accounts. And being a shrewd politician, Naidu would not make such a silly mistake of revealing his bank account to a fraudster.
Even the banks in Singapore would not reveal the bank transactions to any outsider. So, the chance of Krishna Mohan getting to know about Naidu’s bank balances of Rs 15,000 crore, even if the latter really has the amount. The Wikileaks, too, had to struggle a lot to find out the bank accounts of some people, which came out only through the leak from the bank staff.
Morover, Krishna Mohan went on to claim that he had given Rs 25 lakh to Lokesh Naidu and that he had eloped with a girl, which sounds silly and stupid. It is pretty clear that Krishna Mohan held the press conference either at the behest of somebody or to claim some cheap publicity at the time of by-elections.
Nobody would say Naidu is a paragon of virtue or non-corrupt. It is an open secret that Naidu was and is corrupt, but it is hard to believe that he is so foolish to tell anybody to transfer the bribe to his Swiss Bank account.
Posted June 10th, 2012, 11:02 AM IST
