Report on World Bank Indian Project Shows Corruption

The results of a World Bank probe into Bank project-related corruption in India were announced on Friday. According to the Bank “serious incidents of fraud and corruption” have occurred in several projects over the last 11 years, involving hundreds of millions of dollars.

The announcement of this report comes a few months after one GAP client blew the whistle on World Bank funds in India being used to purchase defective HIV test kits, putting the population at risk. These defective HIV test kits give out false negative reading, meaning that they do often show infected, unsafe blood as being clean and acceptable for transfusions.

Thus far, although assurances have been made to GAP staff by World Bank officials that actions would be taken to fix the problem, GAP has seen little proof that anything has been accomplished whatsoever – meaning that an unknown number of Indians could potentially still be being put at risk.

GAP is working to pressure the World Bank to fix this problem.

-- Dylan Blaylock

Comments

[Sheila]

I am boggled that such a huge genocidal crime of this proportion and intentional endangerment of the public at large has been suppressed and hidden from media this long. This is because it reeks of corruption at Government levels, which is why the guilty are about to go scotfree. I thought they would be put on death row and the death-manufacturing company Monozyme would shut down and some heads at high levels would roll. Silly me, this is India.............we don't even have a Class action suit open to us. Some thalassaemics(who require blood transfusions frequently) have contracted HIV already and have a public interest litigation case ongoing. These kits have been supplied all over India.