Is Government encouraging hawala?
The present CBI Director once said that more than $ 500 billion of Indian black money was stashed abroad. A major chunk of this money is believed to be lying in Swiss banks in Switzerland. Would this money every come back to India? Developments of the last few years have given a ray of hope that if Indian Government acted tough like its US counterpart did a few years back, India also might get access to the list of those having their undeclared accounts abroad. However, Indian government seems to be more interested in helping the guilty rather than punishing them.
In July 2011, Indian Government received a list of roughly 700 people having bank accounts in HSBC, Geneva. The list contains bank balances of these people in 2006. We could not access all the names but the following names do appear in that list:
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani : Rs 100 crores
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani : Rs 100 crores
Motech Software Private Ltd (Reliance Group company) : Rs 2,100 crores
Reliance Industries Ltd : Rs 500 crores
Sandeep Tandon : Rs 125 crores
Anu Tandon : Rs 125 crores
Kokila Dhirubhai Ambani : She has an account but there was no balance on that date
Naresh Kumar Goyal : Rs 80 crores
Burmans (3 family members) : Rs 25 crores
Yashovardhan Birla : no balance
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