With the Adarsh scam still on the radar, a new chief minister and debates simmering about what can be done now about the Adarsh building, two recent news reports bring to fore some universal truths about fraud, greed and conscience. Though this is not designed to be a consolation for the Adarsh cheats, just an indicator that cheaters move in mysterious ways.

A couple of days ago, there was an expos ufffd about some people involved in a huge scam, involving the Holocaust survivors. The reports said that for nearly six decades, a not-for-profit corporation known as The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, or the Claims Conference, has been overseeing German government funds that assist Holocaust survivors.

Conning, like death, is a great leveller as elastic morals are flexible, stretching all the way across the globe

Some corrupt Claims Conference employees in its Manhattan office, along with 11 other conspirators had been charged in a decade-long scheme to defraud the organisation and swindle Holocaust victims out of $42 million.

A private law firm investigated employees' suspicions that the co-workers had approved fraudulent claims and finally when all was proven true, the world erupted in horror. News reports called the fraud, 'an affront to human decency'.

The reaction is quite similar to all the outrage swirling around the Adarsh scam with most people seething because flats meant for Kargil martyrs' widows are involved. People are asking (shades of Holocaust anger) that how come even Kargil did not prick the conscience of the fraudsters.