It was in mid-March that SVT News and Assignment review together with the German public service channel ZDF and Indian Confluence Media revealed extensive corruption around Scania's business in India.

SVT was also able to reveal that in November 2016, Scania delivered an exclusive, specially designed bus to a company with connections to Nitin Gadkari.

The bus was destined for his daughter's wedding a few weeks later.

Scania's CEO also confirms this in an interview with SVT.

The Minister denies

Prior to the publication, SVT and ZDF had sought the minister and his sons, but without results.

In a major TV interview on March 31 for the Indian news site The Print, the minister denies that he received any Scania bus as a gift.

However, he confirms that he had close contact with the Swedish bus company.

- For 12 years I have tried to introduce ethanol-powered vehicles in the country.

Scania is the first company in the world to produce ethanol buses.

I have marketed them and brought them here to introduce ethanol-powered vehicles into the country for the first time.

I have also gone to Sweden myself, he said in the interview.

He also said that "Scania denies that they gave me a bus and they say that the whole story is a lie".

More information will come out

But this is contradicted by email communication between Gadkari's sons and Scania executives.

According to the internal investigation, Scania has provided Nitin Gadkari and his family with a bus that has not been fully paid for.

In the Scania email, the bus is called "Bus given to a very big man".

In the Indian newspaper Caravan, more information appears that indicates that the minister is not telling the truth.

In July 2018, a reporter who examined corruption suspicions about the minister found a shiny, white Scania bus in a deserted factory area.

The land is owned by companies with connections to Gadkari's two sons.

According to the registration number, it is most likely the same bus that Gadkari received from Scania a year and a half earlier.

The reporter took pictures of the bus and filmed it.

At the time, he had no idea that the same bus would appear in a new corruption scandal almost three years later.