🚨 THE QUESTION NO ONE DARES TO ASK

Both Dhurandhar and IC 814 – The Kandahar Hijack meticulously recreate tension, chaos, and political panic. But they carefully sidestep one explosive question:

Do terrorists hijack an international flight demanding $200 million without knowing exactly who is on board?

Because on that flight—sitting quietly in economy class—was a man whose business literally controls the paper money of nations.

That detail wasn’t fictional.

It wasn’t speculative.
It was first exposed by TIME.

And it changes everything.

✈️ THE “ECONOMY CLASS” VVIP NO ONE TALKS ABOUT

The hijacked aircraft, IC 814, carried a passenger most retellings avoid naming:

Roberto Giorgi

Not a politician.
Not a diplomat.
Not military.

He was the Managing director of De La Rue—the world’s most powerful private currency printing company.

If that name doesn’t ring alarm bells, it should.

💸 DE LA RUE: THE COMPANY THAT PRINTS NATIONS

De La Rue isn’t just another multinational.
It is a financial gatekeeper.

• Prints currency notes worldwide

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• Supplies security threads, holograms, and banknote paper

• Long-time supplier to India

• Simultaneously, the currency printer for Pakistan

• Used the same paper stock for both countries

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Let that sink in.

Two hostile nations.
One private supplier.
One paper.

🧪 WHERE THE REAL PROBLEM BEGAN: THE 2010 currency SCANDAL

In 2010, the story cracked open.

currency paper supplied to india failed quality tests. Worse still, during the investigation, De La Rue admitted that:

• Test certificates submitted to the RBI

• Were forged internally by employees

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This wasn’t an allegation.
It was an admission.

The fallout was swift.

🛑 2011: BLACKLISTED, SECURITY CLEARED—FULL STOP

In 2011:

• Enquiry launched

• Pranab Mukherjee, then Finance Minister

• De La Rue blacklisted

• Security clearance cancelled

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The message was clear:
This company was too sensitive, too compromised, too dangerous to be trusted.

End of story.
Or so it seemed.

🔄 2012: THE contract THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE EXISTED

In a move that defies every procurement rule imaginable:

Arvind Mayaram, then Finance Secretary, extended De La Rue’s expired contract by three years—without a tender.

No competitive bidding.
No transparency.
No explanation.

Just a silent resurrection.

🕵️ 2017: cbi ENTERS, AND THE FILES TALK

In 2017, the Central Bureau of Investigation formally stepped in.

The FIR stated, unambiguously:

• contract extension was illegal

• De La Rue held no exclusive indian patent

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• Yet received preferential treatment

This wasn’t procedural negligence.
It was institutional manipulation.

🌍 panama PAPERS: THE GLOBAL ROT SHOWS UP

Then came the Panama Papers.

De La Rue’s name surfaced again—this time tied to:

• Offshore dealings

• Evidence of 15% commission paid to an indian agent

• Explicitly to secure banknote contracts

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By now, the pattern was undeniable:
Corporate power + political access + national currency = systemic corruption.

🧩 CONNECT THE DOTS: WAS IC 814 REALLY RANDOM?

Now rewind.

• A flight hijacked

• Massive cash demand

• Kandahar chosen

• A global currency powerbroker onboard

• A company entangled with both india and Pakistan

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And we’re supposed to believe passenger lists weren’t checked?

Was the presence of Roberto Giorgi a coincidence?

Was the hijack only about ideology?

That’s not naïveté.
That’s denial.

🎬 WHY NO SERIES WILL TOUCH THIS STORY

Because this isn’t just about terrorism.

It’s about:

• currency sovereignty

• Corporate leverage over nations

• Political protection

• Financial secrecy

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It’s safer to show masked gunmen than to show men in suits who decide what your money is printed on.

And that’s exactly why this story remains untold.

🎥 FINAL VERDICT: THIS IS THE REAL THRILLER

Forget dramatized hijack sequences.
Forget background scores.

The real thriller is this:

A private company printing rival nations’ money
A VVIP sitting unnoticed in economy class
A hijacked plane
Fake certificates
Illegal contract extensions
Offshore commissions

This isn’t fiction.
This is documented history.

And yes—this story alone could make a devastating political-corporate thriller series.

Which is precisely why it hasn’t been made.