New Delhi: Activist-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Friday came out with another 'expose', the fourth by India Against Corruption, this time targeting black money in Swiss banks. He said Mukesh and Anil Ambani have huge money stashed in the vaults of Swiss banks.
He also said that Naresh Goyal, a Congress leader, also holds money in these banks.
Kejriwal also said that the Union Government had the names of the top fish who had money in Swiss banks, but is fighting shy of revealing the names. Instead, the IT department raided the small fries who have money in Swiss banks. These small people were reaided.
The government has over 700 names, but why is it not revealing the names, asked Kejriwal.
The IAC chief said all it needs is a phone call to operators in India to open and operate Swiss accounts. This is how the money reaches the Swiss bank vaults. If you say you have black money, Swiss bank officials come to your house to collect the cash in the night, he said.
Similarly, if the account holder wants money, all it needs is a telephone call to Geneva and the money is transferred through hawala.
The money is transferred through HSBC banks.
In his last expose on October 31, Kejriwal led IAC accused the government of succumbing to corporates. Kejriwal and his colleague, lawyer Prashant Bhushan, termed RIL's D-6 block in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin deal as a "classic case of crony capitalism" and said both the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) governments were responsible.
In the past two months, Kejriwal has targetted Congress prsident Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deals, then law minister and now external affairs minister Salman Khurshid of allegedly misusing funds alloted to his NGO, and BJP president Nitin Gadkari's Purti group in an irrigation scam.
Meanwhile, former Army Chief V K Singh on Thursday said there was a need for thorough probe into the allegations made by IAC activist Arvind Kejriwal with regard to corruption.
"Kejriwal is levelling allegations of corruption because there are evidences to support them," Singh told reporters but refused to be part of IAC. "Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan had not joined any party ... He had moved ahead alone to fight corruption and people rallied behind him which resulted in a people's movement in 1974," he said in reply to a question whether he was interested in joining any political party.