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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Black money: I-T department to probe 2,000 Indian accounts in Denmark, Finland by Pradeep Thakur

Black money: I-T department to probe 2,000 Indian accounts in Denmark, Finland by Pradeep Thakur

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published Published on Nov 5, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 5, 2011

Even as the details given by France on Swiss bank accounts of Indians continue to cause ripples back home, Denmark and Finland have passed information about another 2,000 bank accounts to India, prompting the I-T department to launch an investigation.

Sources said the I-T department's Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) has been asked to probe these accounts.

This is the third instance when foreign countries have shared details with Delhi about Indian accountholders in foreign banks. Earlier, LGT Bank of Liechtenstein and Geneva-based HSBC had shared the details of Indian accountholders. Another tranche of information is on its way from Germany.

The DCI is probing accountholders of HSBC Bank in Geneva, where the deposits run into thousands of crores in Indian currency. The details of 700 accounts in the Geneva bank had thrown up many high-profile names, including industrialists and politicians having huge deposits.

Sources said after search and survey operations against the accountholders of the HSBC Bank is over, the DCI officials will probe the names that appear in the Danish and Finnish list. Staff crunch has been one of major reasons behind the slackening pace of the government's current drive against black money.

The government is also considering taking help of the US to crackdown on its tax evaders since American federal agencies have a lot of information on black money, and some of them may be of help for India to obtain crucial evidence against its own money launderers.

Earlier this week, TOI had reported about details of recent actions by the DCI in which 50 nationwide searches had helped authorities recover over Rs 300 crore from accountholders of the Geneva bank.

A defensive Congress has said that the government is determined to take action against the culprits, but the Opposition BJP has been pressing for disclosure of the names of those who have stashed cash abroad. Among politicians having accounts in Swiss banks, one MP is learnt to have deposits worth Rs 200 crore in the Geneva account.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has said the names would be disclosed after suspect tax evaders are prosecuted.

The TOI report on crackdown on politicians and industrialists - based on the HSBC Bank list - mentioned how a top industrialist in Mumbai had admitted to having family accounts in the Geneva, with deposits worth more than Rs 800 crore.

The DCI has been set up as the I-T special branch to fight black money. It has been authorized to create and maintain an armed unit and a marine and air-borne unit for special operations. Its staff strength is likely to touch more than 500 soon.

Besides, the finance ministry had set up Exchange of Information Cell under the Foreign Tax Division of CBDT and created new I-T overseas units in Indian missions abroad to procure offshore data of Indian tax evaders.

The Times of India, 5 November, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Black-money-I-T-department-to-probe-2000-Indian-accounts-in-Denmark-Finland/articleshow/10613750.cms


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