Senior BJP leader Arun Shourie has accused the Congress-led UPA govt of submitting forged papers to the Swiss authorities about city-based stud farm owner Hassan Ali Khan
Senior BJP leader Arun Shourie has accused the Congress-led UPA govt of submitting forged papers to the Swiss authorities about city-based stud farm owner Hassan Ali Khan
The BJP has accused the UPA government of submitting forged papers to the Swiss authorities about Hassan Ali
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Breeding trouble: Hassan Ali Khan after being arrested by Mumbai police in a fake passport case
last year. File Pic |
Khan, a city-based stud farm owner, and had alleged that such a government would never get back India's black money stashed abroad.
"The Swiss authorities rejected the request to disclose details of the accounts and transactions of Hassan Ali Khan because the Indian government had sent forged papers," said senior BJP MP Arun Shourie. He said this fact had been confirmed by the Ministry of Justice of the Swiss government, which had said that the Indian government had been informed about the forgery in early 2007 itself.
Shourie added that the Indian government did not get back to the Swiss government after March 2007 and alleged that the government had suppressed these facts from the Supreme Court in its affidavit-in-reply to a PIL filed by citizens on the issue.
Shourie said the UPA government had stooped so low as to help an operator like Hassan Ali Khan, who, he alleged, was connected to don Dawood Ibrahim and was involved in channelling very large amounts of money from unknown sources into the Indian stock market. He said Khan had deposits of $8-9 billion in UBS and other Swiss banks.
Reacting to Shourie's accusations, the Congress said that the allegations are baseless. "It is laughable to level such allegations against the government of India," said spokesman Abhishek Singhvi.
Singhvi added that Swiss banks could make disclosures about accounts within a minute if it wanted to. Swiss banks have taken protection in stringent secrecy laws enacted by the government there. "If they want to make any disclosures, it would take them 30 seconds to do so," he said.
