BJP’S SWAMY JOINS JETHMALANI IN BATTLE AGAINST BLACK MONEY
Wednesday, 13 May 2015 | PNS | New Delhi
Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday joined eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani in his legal battle in the Supreme Court to unearth black money of Indians stashed in foreign banks.
The Bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu allowed Swamy to intervene in the matter after Jethmalani said that in his old age he was looking for a "companion" to continue waging the battle he started in 2009 against undisclosed black money of Indians.
The Court asked Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi who appeared for Centre to file a response to Swamy's affidavit within four weeks. Through the affidavit, Swamy sought the Court's intervention to allow SIT probe into instances exposing black money transactions in dubious business transactions and by politically influential persons of the country.
It could be due to the sensational content in the affidavit, Rohatgi raised objection to allow Swamy to appear in the case. He cited a previous objection raised by Court to disallow Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's intervention in the matter.
Swamy proposed four methods to unearth black money. One method was to register a FIR based on complaint by CBI or ED on prima facie evidence of a person or company having illegal account in Swiss bank. The agency can then seek relevant information of black money account from the Swiss government under the Swiss Law on International Judicial Assistance in Criminal Matters. The other methods to secure information were by surreptitiously giving monetary inducements, or through the UN Convention against Corruption which India recently ratified.
Swamy even sought SIT probe into Spicejet deal, Aircel-Maxis deal, FIPB clearance given to Bharat Hotels where a non-existent London company Richmond Enterprises SA was allowed to route money into the Indian entity by the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
Jethmalani requested the Court to supply him full communication of letters exchanged between India and Germany in supply of Indians having black money accounts with Liechtenstein Bank.http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/bjps-swamy-joins-jethmalani-in-battle-against-black-money.html