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A preceding page of this profile highlighted that whistleblowing on occasion can be both virtuous and financially rewarding.

It can also be dangerous. In 2003 for example India was rocked by the murder of Satyendra Dubey, a government engineer who exposed corruption in the national highway construction program.

In 2005 Shanmughan Manjunath, a manager at a state-owned oil company, blew the whistle on a scheme to sell impure gasoline. Alas, his body was later found, riddled with bullets, in the back seat of his car.

Less dramatically, Yoichi Mizutani, president of a Japanese storage company Nishinomiya Reizo, blew the whistle in 2002 on a scam by Snow Brand Food Co. Snow had been mislabelling Australian beef as domestic beef to benefit from the government's beef buy-back program following an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ('mad cow disease') in Japan. Mizutani's reward was an order from the Construction & Transport Ministry company to suspend operations - a suspension that lasted 16 months - during investigation of the scam. Nishinomiya was eventually cleared of participation in Snow's scheme

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