SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS
Prime Ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani has said that if NDA is voted topower, the primary duty will be to unearth and bring back money deposited in Swiss Accounts by our own politicians, Industrialists, Bureaucrats which amounts to a whopping 4.2 trillion USD. Celebrities have already filed or in the process of filing a PIL to direct Government of India to seek details of this ransom looted from Indian people at various points of time. The Government represented by the then FM escaped criticism when Chidambaram claimed to have written to German Authorities to furnish details of money slashed away in secret accounts for which no reply was forthcoming. This time around, Dr. Manmohan singh is silent on this issue and so is UPA Chairperson Smt Sonia Gandhi. Left parties have also demanded that this ill gotten wealth is seized and brought back to our country. This money if ever got back could help us to wipe our foreign debt which will save recurring interest costs and bring down the deficit. then agai n plenty of money will be still available for funding massive infra strucuture programs suffering for want of money. Why is that the Government is silent on this issue? This issue should be made a principal election issue and parties that swear to unearth this wealth back to our country should be supported and chosen. For Mr LK Advani, this should not be an empty promise like what VP Singh promised to bring back a meagrely 64 crores of Bofors kickbacks within 15 days of assuming office. Because successive Governments spent 4 times as much money to find the trail of the money but did nothing.
In the aftermath of oil for food coupon scam unearthed by Paul Volker, it was alleged that Congress party, Mr. Natwar singh, Panthers Party, Reliance Industries were some of the beneficiaries of this favored privilege of lifing oil. The pecuniary gain that was expected to have occured to RIL was a whopping 600 crores. RIL is in no way influential to help Saddam Regime to tilt international opinion in favor of Saddam to get sanctions imposed lifted. But it got some allotment of coupons. This was probably at the behest of some political power who was the ultimate beneficiary. No one seemed to bother . It could have been easier for finding the trial of money because RIL is a listed company. If it had got the allotment of oil and sold them legally, it should have found a place in thier audited accounts If not it is obvious some one else used RIL as conduit Sadly no one, not even the known RIL baiter Mr.Gurumurthi ventured in to this allegation seriously. there could be many such scams which resulted in slashing away of money in Swiss accounts. Let us hope Supreme Court take suo motu cognisance of this serious matter and orders the Government to seek details of all such secret account immediately.
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