What is the final source? how can we rely only on merinews.com On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:59 AM, J.venkata subramanian < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Jharkhand Forum <http://www.jharkhand.org.in> > <http://egroups.com/list/Jharkhand> > * * > > > > <http://www.merinews%20.com/catFull.%20jsp?articleID=%20137213>http://www.merinews > .com/catFull. jsp?articleID= 137213 > > *Is India poor, who says? Ask Swiss banks** > > *With personal account deposit bank of $1500 billion in foreign reserve > which have been misappropriated, an amount 13 times larger than the > country's foreign debt, one needs to rethink if India is a poor country?. > > DISHONEST INDUSTRIALISTS, scandalous politicians and corrupt IAS, IRS, IPS > officers have deposited in foreign banks in their illegal personal > accounts a sum of about $ 1500 billion, which have been misappropriated by > them. This amount is about 13 times larger than the country's foreign debt. > With this amount 45 crore poor people can get Rs 1,00,000 each. This huge > amount has been appropriated from the people of India by exploiting and > betraying them. > > Once this huge amount of black money and property comes back to India , > the entire foreign debt can be repaid in 24 hours. After paying the entire > foreign debt, we will have surplus amount, almost 12 times larger than the > foreign debt. If this surplus amount is invested in earning interest, the > amount of interest will be more than the annual budget of the Central > government. So even if all the taxes are abolished, then also the Central > government will be able to maintain the country very comfortably. > > Some 80,000 people travel to Switzerland every year, of whom 25,000 travel > very frequently. "Obviously, these people won't be tourists. They must be > travelling there for some other reason," believes an official involved in > tracking illegal money. And, clearly, he isn't referring to the commerce > ministry bureaucrats who've been flitting in and out of Geneva ever since > the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations went into a tailspin! > * > Just read the following details and note how these dishonest > industrialists, scandalous politicians, corrupt officers, cricketers, film > actors, illegal sex trade and protected wildlife operators, to name just a > few, sucked this country's wealth and prosperity. This may be the picture of > deposits in Swiss banks only. What about other international banks? > * > Black money in Swiss banks -- Swiss Banking Association report, 2006 > details bank deposits in the territory of Switzerland by nationals of > following countries: > * > Top five* > * > India---- $1,456 billion* > Russia ---$ 470 billion > UK -------$390 billion > Ukraine - $100 billion > China -----$ 96 billion > > Now do the maths - India with $1456 billion or $1.4 trillion has more money > in Swiss banks than rest of the world combined. Public loot since 1947: Can > we bring back our money? It is one of the biggest loots witnessed by mankind > -- the loot of the *Aam Aadmi* (common man) since 1947, by his brethren > occupying public office. It has been orchestrated by politicians, > bureaucrats and some businessmen. The list is almost all-encompassing. No > wonder, everyone in India loots with impunity and without any fear. > > What is even more depressing in that this ill-gotten wealth of ours has > been stashed away abroad into secret bank accounts located in some of the > world's best known tax havens. And to that extent the Indian economy has > been stripped of its wealth. Ordinary Indians may not be exactly aware of > how such secret accounts operate and what are the rules and regulations that > go on to govern such tax havens. However, one may well be aware of *'Swiss > bank accounts,'* the shorthand for murky dealings, secrecy and of course > pilferage from developing countries into rich developed ones. > > In fact, some finance experts and economists believe tax havens to be a > conspiracy of the western world against the poor countries. By allowing the > proliferation of tax havens in the twentieth century, the western world > explicitly encourages the movement of scarce capital from the developing > countries to the rich. > > In March 2005, the Tax Justice Network (TJN) published a research finding > demonstrating that $11.5 trillion of personal wealth was held offshore by > rich individuals across the globe. The findings estimated that a large > proportion of this wealth was managed from some 70 tax havens. > > Further, augmenting these studies of TJN, Raymond Baker -- in his widely > celebrated book titled 'Capitalism' s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How > to Renew the Free Market System' -- estimates that at least $5 trillion have > been shifted out of poorer countries to the West since the mid-1970. > It is further estimated by experts that one per cent of the world's > population holds more than 57 per cent of total global wealth, routing it > invariably through these tax havens. How much of this is from India is > anybody's guess. > > What is to be noted here is that most of the wealth of Indians parked in > these tax havens is illegitimate money acquired through corrupt means. > Naturally, the secrecy associated with the bank accounts in such places is > central to the issue, not their low tax rates as the term *'tax > havens'*suggests. > > -- From: Ganesh Puranik Wardha / Sindkheda (Dhule) / Mokhada (Thane) / Pandharpur / Varanasi / Nagpur / Pune / New Delhi Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but the heart to conquer it...- Rabindranath Tagore -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Imp. Note: "This e-mail message may contain confidential, personal, proprietary or legally privileged information, hence the original recipient must take a proper approval before using or forwarding such information. 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