Sonia Gandhi & Gandhi ’s Exposed : Swiss Bank Accounts:

Sonia Gandhi & Gandhi ’s Exposed : Swiss Bank Accounts:

Swiss magazine Schweizer Illustrierte on 11 November 1991 revealed that Sonia Gandhi was controlling secret Swiss Bank accounts worth $2.2 billion (Rs 10,000 crore).[33][34][35] Independent reports have recently calculated Sonia Gandhi’s fi…nancial net worth to be anywhere between $9.41 billion (Rs 42,345 crore) to $18.66 billion (Rs 83,900 crore).[36]
Harvard scholar Yevgenia Albats cited KGB correspondence about payments to Rajiv Gandhi and his family, which had been arranged by Viktor Chebrikov,[37] which shows that KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov sought in writing an ”authorization to make payments in U.S. dollars to the family members of Rajiv Gandhi, namely Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Paola Maino, mother of Sonia Gandhi” from the CPSU in December 1985. Payments were authorized by a resolution, CPSU/CC/No 11228/3 dated 20 December 1985; and endorsed by the USSR Council of Ministers in Directive No 2633/Rs dated 20 December 1985. These payments had been coming since 1971, as payments received by Sonia Gandhi’s family and ”have been audited in CPSU/CC resolution No 11187/22 OP dated 10/12/1984.[38] In 1992 the media confronted the Russian government with the Albats disclosure. The Russian government confirmed the veracity of the disclosure and defended it as necessary for ”Soviet ideological interest.”[37]
In 2004 Sonia Gandhi’s party appointed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. In wake of the Swiss banking report, Manmohan Singh was the only international leader to initially refuse to receive black money data provided by the German authorities during 2008 Liechtenstein tax affair.[39][40] Under pressure from the main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Manmohan Singh government later reluctantly agreed to accept a part of the data but stoutly refused to make it public.
In 2010, a group of concerned eminent Indian citizens consisting of KPS Gill, Ram Jethmalani and Subhash Kashyap amongst others petitioned the Supreme Court to ask the Union government to make the list of names of Indian citizens with black money in Liechtenstein Bank public. The Indian government in response refused to make the names of Indian account holders in Liechtenstein bank public. Following which the Supreme Court questioned the government’s reluctance to disclose the names of Indian nationals who have stashed black money in foreign banks, asking “what is the big deal about it?” [41] In 2011, the Supreme court again lashed out at the government for inaction in the Swiss Bank matter

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