Bangalore, November 9: Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal revealed names of a few Swiss bank account holders from India on Friday.
In a press note he alleged that in July 2011, Indian Government received a list of 700 people having bank accounts in HSBC, Geneva. The list contained the bank balances these people held in 2006. India Against Corruption members managed to access a few – not all – names in the list.
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambai – Rs 100 crores
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani – Rs 100 crores
Motech Software Private Ltd (Reliance Group company) – Rs 2,100 crores
Reliance Industries Ltd – Rs 500 crores
Sandeep Tandon – Rs 125 crores
Anu Tandon – Rs 125 crores
Kokila Dhirubhai Ambani – She has an account but there was no balance on that date
Naresh Kumar Goyal – Rs 80 crores
Burmans (3 family members) – Rs 25 crores
Yashovardhan Birla – no balance
After receiving the list in July 2011, Income Tax department conducted a few raids, which led to three persons named in the list making a confession under oath. While the government went after smaller fish, people with much bigger accounts were let off easily, accused the release.
Mukesh Ambani, according to the press release, met the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and requested him not to raid Reliance Industries and offered to pay up the taxes to “buy peace”.
The Ambani brothers reportedly admitted to these accounts and paid taxes on the money stashed away in their personal names.
Pranab Mukherjee had planned to introduce a Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme (VDIS) to help the 700 people in the list, but later dropped the idea. Instead, he granted them immunity from prosecution under Income tax Act and let off the evaders after they paid their taxes.
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