Cong sitting over billions in Swiss accounts: BJP
The BJP has expressed its surprise over why the Congress kept sitting over the billions of rupees stashed in secret bank accounts in the Swiss banks.
"We have written to the Prime Minister in 2008, yet nothing happened. We fail to understand why the government did not move forward when Germany itself offered to help and provide the information free of cost," senior BJP leader and economist Arun Shourie said.
The BJP's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani had assured in a poll meeting that if elected, the BJP would bring back the billions stashed away in Swiss accounts, home.
"After getting elected, Barack Obama made a team to take up the issue and they made the largest Swiss Bank bend and pay a fine of 800 million dollars to keep all the information secret," Shourie said.
The former Union minister pointed out that the day G20 summit started, OECD published a list of countries which did not comply with the norms in taxation transparency. "It led to various countries like the Uruguay, Costa Rica comply immediately. Under the threat of sanctions from Germany and France, the Swiss government also agreed to comply."
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