This Money Laundering Business
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This Money laundering business

Recently there was an expose in Indian Express about the offer of a German Bank to help various governments to trace ill gotten money lying with them. It reported that while many countries have applied to get such details, the silence of Indian government was intriguing. FM , a little later announced that his ministry has applied for details under double tax avoidance treaty and the friends in the press could have verified this with him rather than leaking it to the opposition and the leader of opposition bothering the PM with a lengthy letter. The Paper thereupon wrote an editorial accusing the Minister of skirting the issue. the matter thereafter has not been written about. May be the Minister has taken upon the task of unravelling the mystery of bank accounts of Indian nationals in the German Bank. It was also alleged that the promoter family of this infamous Bank got a royal reception by Indian government. without mincing words, the insinuation was about the still talked aboutBOFORS and the pay offs involved.

The Present FM introduced Banking Cash Transaction tax which taxed any cash withdrawl in excess of a certain amount. This he claimed will reveal the source of black money as he believed contrary to our popular notions that such ill gotten money is laundered through normal banking channels. How much of such money he has stumbled upon is anybody's guess.

Then there was a big fuss about one horse trainer in Pune called Ali whose case was claimed to be th single biggest evasion in the annals of Income tax in india. This gentleman was claimed to have access to many influential men in power. The story died a natural death.

Then this Telgi who during a psycho analysis test named Sharad Pawar as a beneficiary of his acts. Pawar and the media were dismissive of the allegations as they claimed the psycho analysis is inhuman and claimed to be so by Human rights organisations such as Amnesty.

Former SEBI Chairman Damodaran and RBI Governor Reddy believed that investments through Participatory notes are ill gotten wealth in guise of legitimate investments and wanted to introduce a mechanism to curb such acts. FM was dead against it saying that will dry up our so called FDI. Most of the Investments is from tax havens. Mauritius is the single largest investor. Mauritius is a safe place for parking ill gotten wealth. We have double tax avoidance treaty with this country also. So Money laundering is a serious business. Many of our bigwigs are involved including top notch politicians. Probably it will take a revolution like which happened in Nepal to unmask our politicians

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