Retaining his attack on prominent people allegedly indulged in wrongdoings, activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal Friday shot up at corporates and politicians for stashing their black money in the foreign banks and also pulled the leg of the government for being incapable to stop the practice.
Arvind, who after exposing Reliance Industries for irregularities in KG Basin, had announced to do new exposure on 09th November 2012, kept his promise and alleged the top industrialists, business persons, politicians and affluent persons for stashing their alleged black money in foreign bank accounts like Swiss bank.
He claimed to have a list of 700 Indians having accounts in HSBC's branch in Geneva.
Announcing about the source of revelations, India Against Corruption (IAC) leader said that a senior Congress leader had provided the information.
He also alleged that both the Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have joined hands to spread corruption.
"Government doesn't want to bring back black money stashed in Swiss banks abroad. The government has a list of 700 people having accounts in Swiss banks," he said.
"In July 2011, the 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. These names are also part of the list," said Kejriwal during a press conference here.
Kejriwal claimed that Mukesh Ambani has Rs. 100 crores, Anil Ambani has Rs. 100 crores, Sandeep Tandon - former IRS, ED official - who raided Reliance has Rs. 125 crores, Reliance Industries Rs. 200 crores, Sandeep Tandon's wife Anu, who is now Congress MP from Unnao, has Rs. 125 crores, Motech Software Private Ltd (Reliance Group company) - Rs. 2,100 crores, Kokila Dhirubhai Ambani has an account but in December 2006 it had no balance, Naresh Goyal has Rs. 80 crores.
"Yashovardhan Birla has an account, but in December 2006 it has no balance. CBI had said there is Rs. 25 lakh crores - these 700 names account for only Rs. 6000 crores," he said.
He further claimed that three members from Dabur have accounts totalling Rs. 25 crores.
"Our sources told us Mukhesh Ambani had come to the finance ministry when the list of 700 Swiss account holders were provided to India. He told the finance ministry 'we are prepared to pay the tax to buy peace and no raids should be conducted'," said Kejriwal.
'The present CBI director once said more than Rs.25,00,000 crore of ill-gotten Indian money was stashed abroad while the Indian government said that an amount of Rs.6,000 crore is deposited in Swiss banks,' claimed Arvind.
He said even as black money was a big threat to India's economic sovereignty, the union government was trying to shield its perpetrators. "Indian government seems to be more interested in helping the guilty rather than punishing them."
'Then finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had even planned an amnesty for all the 700 Swiss account holders. He also demanded strict action against HSBC bank for encouraging kidnapping, corruption and terrorism in the country,' he further added.
Kejriwal, who parted ways with Anna Hazare, also alleged that the UPA Government-led by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has turned out to be the biggest economic threat to India.
"Like America, we should enact a law that makes it mandatory for foreign banks operating in the country to furnish a list of all account holders to the income tax department," he said, asking the thousands of HSBC bank employees to quit their jobs.
Kejriwal has so far targetted President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, BJP President Nitin Gadkari and the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance group.
--With Agencies Inputs--
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