Spotlight returns on a mining scandal that Modi govt has done nothing about

Three years ago, US indicted Dmytro Firtash and Congress MP K V P Rao in the $18.5 mn bribery scam

An extradition case involving a Ukrainian oligarch who has business connections to both Russian president Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump’s former campaign manager is likely to turn the focus back towards a now-forgotten mining scandal in Andhra Pradesh that involves a senior Congress politician with cross-party connections so extensive that no government seems eager to dig very deep.

Over the past few months, the American effort to secure the extradition from Austria of oil and gas magnate Dmytro Firtash – facing allegations in the United States that he led a conspiracy to pay $18.5 million in bribes