Aurangabad, April 05: Senior BJP leader LK Advani
on Sunday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to release the
details of foreign destinations particularly Switzerland and
countries which are known tax havens where his ministerial
colleagues have visited during the UPA regime
Advani told reporters that the UPA government must
respond to his charges of huge sums of black money being
parked by Indian nationals in Swiss banks and tax havens
around the world and how it planned to bring back the
"sovereign wealth".
Noting that statement of the leaders of the G-20 summit
that they would take action against non-cooperative
jurisdictions including tax havens, Advani said, "What is
surprising is that the Prime Minister did not mention this
point in his opening written statement to the Press on the
conslusion of the summit."
In his lengthy remarks at the official dinner hosted by
Britain`s Prime Minister Gordon Brown on April 1 on the eve
of the G-20 summit, Dr Singh alluded to this matter in a
"casual" one-sentence reference that said, "We should also
endorse sharing information and bringing tax havens and non-
cooperating jurisdictions under closer scrutiny."
Advani alleged that the Prime Minister failed to raise
concerns over the huge amounts of sovereign wealth deposited
in secret bank accounts abroad. Singh also chose not to
express the Indian Government`s resolve to bring the money
back through international cooperation, the BJP leader said.
Bureau Report
