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HYDERABAD, INDIA: Chief Minsiter of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (R) glances at his watch as he shakes hands with Special Envoy of Germany's Volkswagen Group Frank Elbe (L) at a meeting in Hyderabad, 01 August 2005. Elbe, who was Germany's ambassador in India from 1993 to 1997 has been appointed advisor for the sub-continent to the German automobile giant in the wake of a corruption scandal. Indian press reports said the state government had paid 110 million Indian Rupees (2.5 million USDollars, 2.0 million Euros) to a shadowy company as equity for a proposed Volkswagen manufacturing plant to be set up in Andhra Pradesh, even though VW had never given the go-ahead for the plant and had not employed the company as a go-between. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images)