Whenever the law threatens to catch up with the Nandas, they seem to merely buy their way out of trouble. On 8 March 2008, Suresh and Sanjeev and their chartered accountant, Bipin Shah, were caught passing on a bribe to income-tax officer Ashutosh Verma in a room in Mumbai’s Marriott Hotel. A few days earlier, the CBI’s surveillance team had caught on camera the income-tax officer admitting that his lifelong earnings could not have matched even 10 per cent of what he got for helping the Nandas suppress their tax obligations. When the story broke, the memory of the Nandas’ efforts at buying off
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