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The Government has made it clear that it has ‘no difficulty’ in placing the entire list of black money account holders obtained from various countries.
“The Government has absolutely no difficulty in giving it to the Court. The Government has already given to court constituted SIT (Special Investigation Team) on June 27, and the Government shall place the list to the Court also,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters after the Supreme Court asked the Centre to place all the names by Wednesday.
The list will be given in a sealed envelope, but there is no clarity whether the name would be made public or not. Jaitley made it clear that the Government was not willing to protect anyone.
“The Government has no difficulty whatsoever with any agency investigating into this matter because there is nobody the Government wants to protect in this case…the names that have come up must be investigated and punished according to law,” he said.
He said the Government was in favour of action against people having black money abroad. The truth about these names must come out so that penal action can be taken against the people and money lying there be brought back to India, he said.
Earlier, Jaitley had said the Government would make the names public only in accordance with the law as “we are bound by treaties (Double Taxation Treaties).”
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