With so many high profile guys in jail, or at the door steps, one good thing that I see is that Media is becoming more and more comfortable carrying numbers in their reports on corruption. What we knew and heard through the 'grapevine', now has concrete numbers. But this is probably because of well documented and researched Lokayukta reports. Hopefully, some day, media would be able to do Lokayukta quality research on their own, or would not shy away from reporting corruption (which itself was rare, they just ignored the elephant in the room).
The Hindu, Oct 26, 2011 (link):
Mr. Datta in his complaint had alleged that R N S Jyoti firm was the highest bidder for the project, quoting the cost at Rs. 1,033 crore, and Mr. Yeddyurappa had awarded the contract to it, ignoring the ... lowest bidder ... as a quid pro quo, R N S Jyoti firm transferred Rs. 13 crore to Davalagiri Developers and Sahyadri Healthcare, owned and managed by Mr. Yeddyurappa’s sons and son-in-law
Business Standard, Aug 9, 2011 (link):
The Naidus are accused of taking a kickback of Rs 87 crore from Itasca Software for allotting 325 acres of land near Bangalore.
Deccan Chronicle, July 20, 2011
After the land was acquired without the consent of land owners, ... a kickback of `87 crore was transferred to the account of Indu Builders and Developers. The ... ‘front’ company ... owned by Mr Naidu’s wife
There are more - Upper Krishna Canal project, Mining related. All I am interested in is understanding the magnitude to figure