Without having too much information on the matter, I can assume that it is equally challenging to maintain the loot as it is to loot. You have ensure that the people who are in the know, are happy and fed. You have to ensure that none of those pesky law enforcement officials get to know about your loot. You have to make sure that you are protected in case you get caught which means more palms to be greased. Which means more money to be stolen. That is how the vicious cycle perpetuates.
Our politicians and babus are experts at all this. They had better be good because they have been looting the country blind since our independence and never been arrested. Of course you have people like Raja and Laloo in hot water temporarily but that is the part of the game of hoodwinking the voter. Let us examine this in greater detail.
1.Stealing: This seems to be a piece of cake. Everyone in power from peon to the top guy are stealing with impunity. There has never been an attempt to stop them. Neither in the Congress rule or for that matter the BJP rule. Why upset the apple cart which benefits everyone except the aam aadmi.
2.Maintaining and retaining the loot. The trick for small amounts of money (crores to tens of crores) is benami property. This is why the mothers in law and other relatives of all politicians and babus own large amounts of landed property. I have been told that diamonds are the way to store loot as well.
3.What about the really large sums of cash? You really have to get it out to the Swiss or similar banks and other tax havens. Over a trillion dollars of Indian money is stored in similar accounts as world notorious embezzlers, drug dealers, arm merchants, human traffickers, dictators. Yes our politicians, babus and corrupt businessmen are rubbing shoulders with the worst of the world in that respect.
4.How do you transfer the money out without being noticed? It’s not like you can load it in a suitcase and fly it out yourself. You need fellow criminals whose expertise is in that arena. You will need money launderers who can clean the cash and invest it in legitimate enterprise. Another way is hawala. Yes. The same technique as the one used by Islamic terrorists. Hassan Ali khan, about whom we have written in the past, is a famous name. He is supposed to be a stud farm owner who is probably one of the richest men in India. Why, you ask? It seems that According to the government's statement he owed Rs 50,345 crore to the tax department as on 31 March 2009. If that is the tax, then what is his income? If that amount of income is seen by the tax department then how much he must own in black? Stud farm owners cannot own that kind of money. The obvious implication is that this guy knows how to and must manage black money for others. He may be the biggest of his kind so there must be many of his smaller kin. In his article (ref. below), Mr. Rajinder Puri, claims that : On April 13th a CD showing Hassan Ali was laid on the table of the House by BJP MLA Devendra Phadnavis. The CD contained Ali's statement to police in which he mentioned names of former Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil and Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary, Ahmed Patel. In the CD Ali claimed a meeting involving RR Patil and Ahmed Patel at Juhu Centaur Hotel on 11 August 2008 to approve Hasan Gafoor’s name as Mumbai’s police commissioner. Home Minister Patil vehemently denied any association with Ali. "I have never met Ahmed Patel and never spoken to him face to face. The CID will probe if the motive of the CD was to harm Gafoor, me, Ahmed Patel or anybody else", Patil told the assembly.
It is obvious that this fellow is very well connected. Political secretary to the Congress President is as high as connections go because politicians never directly deal with men like Khan. The trillion dollars belong to a vast swathe of bigwigs. DO you think that they would like to have all that information come out in the open. Not in our lifetimes. Not even if Bhagwan Ram himself enforced a Ramrajya. The pseudo secular politicians will call Ramji a communal man and get him implicated in never-ending cases. This is why, even though some of the banks are willing to share the names and other information about Indian black money, we are not pursuing that offer with any degree of sincerity.
5.Now the UPA bigwigs will claim that a blow against corruption has been made. A Raja has been arrested along with two of his minions. Now if he were the only beneficiary of the 1.6 lakh crores, then we would have reasons to rejoice. However, a lot of people have benefitted from the loot and that is why, this whole thing smells. Raja is just a patsy and is being sacrificed to take the heat of the bumbling UPA. The question is that why has Raja gone to jail without naming the actual beneficiaries? DMK must have some leverage on Raja. Congress has a huge leverage over DMK. It must be a combination of leverages, mutual benefits and the knowledge that going to jail or charges of corruption are not career killers in India (for example Laloo) which must have made Raja acquiesce to this sham arrest.
I hope that the Indian voters can see how they and the country is being taken to the cleaners by these crooks. If we do not vote them out, then we can kiss the futures of our children good bye. Maybe we can take lessons from the Tunisians. Their leaders robber Tunisia of less than $20 billion and they have been kicked out. Our leaders have collectively stolen hundreds of times more money and have no fear of any kind. What kind of country do we have? What kind of people are we? We really need to take a hard look at the status quo.
Swiss 'waiting' for Indian info to act against 'black money kingpin'
Amid a raging controversy over black money allegedly stashed by stud farm owner Hasan Ali in Swiss banks, Switzerland has said it is awaiting a "complete" request from India for help in this case since 2007. Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice (FoJ) had last told Indian authorities in August related stories
Govt must plug this black hole 2010 to complete their request and the request has not been completed so far, an FoJ spokesperson told PTI
Read the complete article at:http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/NewDelhi/Swiss-waiting-for-Indian-info-to-act-against-black-money-kingpin/Article1-656703.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=HT+RSS+Homepage+-+Top+Stories#
Hassan Ali Plus Congress!
by Rajinder Puri
Finance Minister (FM) Pranab Mukherjee does not utter lies. He speaks half truths. Regarding black money stashed in foreign banks he told media that secrecy had to be maintained in accordance with the provisions of the Double Taxation Treaty signed by the Indian government with 23 other countries. The FM told media: “Let us understand the issue. No information can be made available unless there is a legal framework.” What he did not say was that much of the money parked in foreign banks was not related to tax evasion but to crime.
The article and a similar article can be read at: http://cms.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10468
Our politicians and babus are experts at all this. They had better be good because they have been looting the country blind since our independence and never been arrested. Of course you have people like Raja and Laloo in hot water temporarily but that is the part of the game of hoodwinking the voter. Let us examine this in greater detail.
1.Stealing: This seems to be a piece of cake. Everyone in power from peon to the top guy are stealing with impunity. There has never been an attempt to stop them. Neither in the Congress rule or for that matter the BJP rule. Why upset the apple cart which benefits everyone except the aam aadmi.
2.Maintaining and retaining the loot. The trick for small amounts of money (crores to tens of crores) is benami property. This is why the mothers in law and other relatives of all politicians and babus own large amounts of landed property. I have been told that diamonds are the way to store loot as well.
3.What about the really large sums of cash? You really have to get it out to the Swiss or similar banks and other tax havens. Over a trillion dollars of Indian money is stored in similar accounts as world notorious embezzlers, drug dealers, arm merchants, human traffickers, dictators. Yes our politicians, babus and corrupt businessmen are rubbing shoulders with the worst of the world in that respect.
4.How do you transfer the money out without being noticed? It’s not like you can load it in a suitcase and fly it out yourself. You need fellow criminals whose expertise is in that arena. You will need money launderers who can clean the cash and invest it in legitimate enterprise. Another way is hawala. Yes. The same technique as the one used by Islamic terrorists. Hassan Ali khan, about whom we have written in the past, is a famous name. He is supposed to be a stud farm owner who is probably one of the richest men in India. Why, you ask? It seems that According to the government's statement he owed Rs 50,345 crore to the tax department as on 31 March 2009. If that is the tax, then what is his income? If that amount of income is seen by the tax department then how much he must own in black? Stud farm owners cannot own that kind of money. The obvious implication is that this guy knows how to and must manage black money for others. He may be the biggest of his kind so there must be many of his smaller kin. In his article (ref. below), Mr. Rajinder Puri, claims that : On April 13th a CD showing Hassan Ali was laid on the table of the House by BJP MLA Devendra Phadnavis. The CD contained Ali's statement to police in which he mentioned names of former Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil and Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary, Ahmed Patel. In the CD Ali claimed a meeting involving RR Patil and Ahmed Patel at Juhu Centaur Hotel on 11 August 2008 to approve Hasan Gafoor’s name as Mumbai’s police commissioner. Home Minister Patil vehemently denied any association with Ali. "I have never met Ahmed Patel and never spoken to him face to face. The CID will probe if the motive of the CD was to harm Gafoor, me, Ahmed Patel or anybody else", Patil told the assembly.
It is obvious that this fellow is very well connected. Political secretary to the Congress President is as high as connections go because politicians never directly deal with men like Khan. The trillion dollars belong to a vast swathe of bigwigs. DO you think that they would like to have all that information come out in the open. Not in our lifetimes. Not even if Bhagwan Ram himself enforced a Ramrajya. The pseudo secular politicians will call Ramji a communal man and get him implicated in never-ending cases. This is why, even though some of the banks are willing to share the names and other information about Indian black money, we are not pursuing that offer with any degree of sincerity.
5.Now the UPA bigwigs will claim that a blow against corruption has been made. A Raja has been arrested along with two of his minions. Now if he were the only beneficiary of the 1.6 lakh crores, then we would have reasons to rejoice. However, a lot of people have benefitted from the loot and that is why, this whole thing smells. Raja is just a patsy and is being sacrificed to take the heat of the bumbling UPA. The question is that why has Raja gone to jail without naming the actual beneficiaries? DMK must have some leverage on Raja. Congress has a huge leverage over DMK. It must be a combination of leverages, mutual benefits and the knowledge that going to jail or charges of corruption are not career killers in India (for example Laloo) which must have made Raja acquiesce to this sham arrest.
I hope that the Indian voters can see how they and the country is being taken to the cleaners by these crooks. If we do not vote them out, then we can kiss the futures of our children good bye. Maybe we can take lessons from the Tunisians. Their leaders robber Tunisia of less than $20 billion and they have been kicked out. Our leaders have collectively stolen hundreds of times more money and have no fear of any kind. What kind of country do we have? What kind of people are we? We really need to take a hard look at the status quo.
Swiss 'waiting' for Indian info to act against 'black money kingpin'
Amid a raging controversy over black money allegedly stashed by stud farm owner Hasan Ali in Swiss banks, Switzerland has said it is awaiting a "complete" request from India for help in this case since 2007. Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice (FoJ) had last told Indian authorities in August related stories
Govt must plug this black hole 2010 to complete their request and the request has not been completed so far, an FoJ spokesperson told PTI
Read the complete article at:http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/NewDelhi/Swiss-waiting-for-Indian-info-to-act-against-black-money-kingpin/Article1-656703.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=HT+RSS+Homepage+-+Top+Stories#
Hassan Ali Plus Congress!
by Rajinder Puri
Finance Minister (FM) Pranab Mukherjee does not utter lies. He speaks half truths. Regarding black money stashed in foreign banks he told media that secrecy had to be maintained in accordance with the provisions of the Double Taxation Treaty signed by the Indian government with 23 other countries. The FM told media: “Let us understand the issue. No information can be made available unless there is a legal framework.” What he did not say was that much of the money parked in foreign banks was not related to tax evasion but to crime.
The article and a similar article can be read at: http://cms.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10468
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