Action has started on Indian black money abroad: Jaitley

18 Jul 2014 Evaluate

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in parliament that the Indian government has started proceedings against citizens who have stashed away ill-gotten money abroad, with a Special Investigating Team (SIT) looking at how to get it back.

Referring to exchange of information with the Swiss authorities Jaitley said that there is a difference between legal and illegal foreign accounts. It is in regard to these accounts, which are being illegally kept, that the Swiss are seeking cooperation and told that they had got a list of names of people who have accounts in the Swiss bank. He further added that the data didn't reach the French government through any official route but was taken by someone from the HSBC Bank and handed it over to the French government.

Arun Jaitley said that SIT has been provided all the details it wanted. There was a media report that Swiss authority is eager to share other names in the matter as well. They wrote on June 23 to the Swiss authorities but they said the media report was unauthorised. Although there are no official estimates of the ill-gotten money stashed away by Indian citizens in tax havens overseas, various studies, including the one cited by a senior BJP leader, value it at between $462 billion and $1.4 trillion.

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