BJP on Tuesday accused the UPA government of submitting forged papers to the Swiss authorities about Hassan Ali Khan.
BJP on Tuesday accused the UPA government of submitting forged papers to the Swiss authorities about Hassan Ali Khan, a Pune-based stud farm owner, and alleged such a government would never get back India's black money stashed abroad.
"Swiss authorities rejected the request to disclose details of the accounts and transactions of Hassan Ali Khan because the Indian government had sent forged papers," senior BJP MP Arun Shourie said here.
He said this fact had been confirmed by the Ministry of Justice of the Swiss government which had said that the Indian government had been informed about the forgery in early 2007 itself.
Shourie said the Indian government did not get back to the Swiss government after March 2007.
He alleged the government had "suppressed these facts from the Supreme Court in its affidavit-in-reply to a PIL filed by citizens on the issue".
Shourie said the UPA government had "stooped so low as to help an operator like Hassan Ali Khan" who he alleged was connected to Dawood and was involved in channeling very large amount from unknown sources into the Indian stock market.
He said Khan had deposits of 8 to 9 billion dollars in UBS and other Swiss banks.
Shourie said helping Khan was "entirely predictable" as it was the Congress-led Government in Karnataka that had also refused permission to CBI to investigate equally notorious Abdul Karim Telgi, who indulged in making fake Indian revenue stamps.
"The way it (Congress) has helped Hasan Ali Khan has exposed its character and the fact that as long as such a Government is in office, the country will never get its wealth back," he said.
Shourie likened the functioning of the Government to that of a "banana republic" where laws and institutions could be bent "to help the worst sorts of criminals and their associates".
The BJP MP said the Asia Pacific Group, studying money laundering and terrorist operations, had in 2005 noted that India had not taken requisite steps in this regard.
"The National Security Advisor himself has also been stressing publicly since early 2007 that stricter provisions need to be put in place to check money flows to and from tax havens and to ensure that banking secrecy is brought to an end," he said.
Besides, the Administrative Reforms Commission headed by Congress leader M Veerappa Moily had also drawn attention to the urgent need to plug terrorist financing, but the government did nothing about it, he said.
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