A yogi was blamed for gross irregularities at NSE, India's stock exchange

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Not even the weirdest story involving mystics in the last ten years.

A former South Korean president was impeached because of her unofficial but very close ties to a cult leader, going so far as to tell them classified information about North Korea. This leader was able to use their influence for extorting the country’s chaebol, the powerful conglomerates like Samsung. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Korean_political_...

An interesting question in the NSE case is whether this 'yogi' is an actual person or just an intelligent cover used by the then CEO to mislead the investigation on her irregularities. With the prime minister of India openly airing views that the physical appearance of one Hindu god is proof of face transplant, beliefs such as flying chariots, immunity from COVID by wallowing in cow dung and cow urine, etc enjoy a stamp of popular and political endorsement. A time where an explanation such as, "an yogi asked me to do so", would be politically and socially acceptable at all would be now.

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