Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, Feb 9: With a fresh list of blackmoney holders abroad making waves, the Centre Monday said it will probe all the new cases and disclosed that it is in touch with a whistle blower to get the names of all the undisclosed Indian accounts in HSBC’s Switzerland branch and other destinations.
“Some new names have been revealed whose veracity would be checked by authorities,” finance minister Arun Jaitley said.
The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) Monday discussed the fresh list and felt there could be 100 new names in it. “We will consider all new cases where there is evidence of black money… We will complete probe in all cases which are getting time barred by March 31,” SIT vice chairman Arijit Pasayat said here.
Meanwhile, some of the big industrialists and others figuring in the list, including Ambani brothers Mukesh and Anil, NRI businessman Naresh Goyal and politician Narayan Rane denied holding any illegal bank accounts abroad.
An official statement said off the 628 Indian appearing in the first HSBC list, 200 were either non-residents or non-traceable, leaving 428 cases of residents which were found actionable.