A Rs 133-crore deal is signed with a fly-by-night Turkish company, which is supposed to deliver two lakh tonnes of urea to India. In a trice, the entire sum disappears from Indian shores to various accounts around the globe. The Turkish firm, in turn, disappears from Turkey. Not an ounce of urea reaches India. Seven months later, as the scam breaks, the key suspects—the former prime minister's son, Prabhakar Rao, and former fertiliser minister Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav's son Prakash Chandra Yadav—issue pat denials to all charges, despite over -whelming evidence. After weeks of frenetic investigations, the CBI has caught only the scent of the money in flight.