In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Laxman Dass, former chairman, CBDT, said he expects a positive outcome from the SIT probe on black money.
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Dass said the new government is committed to bring back black money. He thinks External Affairs Minister may depute officers to help SIT.
Below is the transcript of Laxman Dass' interview with Latha Venkatesh and Sonia Shenoy on CNBC-TV18.
Latha: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has come with a mandate and with ferocity to get things done; do you think that this is going to lead to some concrete results either on Swiss Bank accounts or even unearthing black money domestically?
A: The results are going to be very good but it will require a lot of concerted efforts. This is first time that such a team has been formed and it is a prestige of the Supreme Court, the entire government and the country and therefore lot needs to be done to ensure that the results come. They will come provided we run in a proper manner, in a systematic manner by making the people work fulltime for the team and not just coming for small meetings and then going back to their own work. I think it will be better that it is taken as a challenge, as a prestigious issue for the country and we need to take into account that this is the accumulated black money of 67 years and it is not easy to collect it; it will have lot of challenges but we will be able to meet them provided we put our house in order and do all concerted efforts.
Latha: What is your comment on the composition of this SIT at least for me for the first time I have seen a committee unearthing black money having the Revenue Secretary, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor, the Enforcement Director, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Director, CBI Director, its just about every investigative agency, everyone who tracks revenues, everyone who tracks money is in that committee. It cannot have a reason to fail. So, this time around are we going to put our hands on some pot of money?
A: We will. As I said that these are all busy people, they have lot of things to do and will not be able to give full time to the team. This is not a committee. This has to be looked at as a team and the working team in which the officers from these various departments should be put on full time job and the team can co-opt some experts in the field who are not working officers with their own day to day responsibilities, so that they can do some spadework and they can shift the information which is brought in from the various departments and advice the chairman and the vice chairman accordingly and they can also help in deciding what things to be further obtain because not everything which is available maybe enough, some more things maybe needed and looking to amounts, there will be people trying to point out evidentiary deficiencies for which a very concerted move will be necessary.
Sonia: We have seen such committees being formed in the past as well with the previous government but that doesn't mean money laundering has become any less also now there is a concept of election funding as well which has led to so many of these parties winning. Do you think that there maybe no success to this plan because elections funding will go against the mere purpose of what these politicians have?
A: Just now we are talking about black money and if black money is tackled rest of the things will follow. We should not forget that this government has a big commitment to this, its own prestige at stake and it is at stake of the Supreme Court's prestige and they will not leave anything un-turn to do the job and if this fails then in future we will not be able to do anything. So, it has to be seen big and the team needs to have a fulltime secretariat, entire logistics and everything so that they are not hindered by anything, in fact I would also suggest that because the contacts with the foreign countries will be required so they may even think of having some appropriate level officers from the ministry of external affairs and also some eminent lawyers who can do it with integrity - the tax experts and lawyers who can do fulltime job; fulltime job will be necessary otherwise the chairman and the vice chairman, you will not find any other team which has two Supreme Court judges. In the past whatever committees have been there they have been at the most having one Supreme Court judge and here we are having chairman, vice chairman, two Supreme Court judges and they will need lot of help from the people below, so effort has to be made.
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