3-4 days ago, I had a little E-mail conversation with Mr. Gurumurthy over Swiss bank issue.
(Remember R. Madhavan from film Guru?? Same in real)
Here is the abstract of article –
".....Advani has only questioned why the Manmohan government is not acting now [in March 2009] in tandem with the West which has begun crusading against secret banking. Only now the West has turned against secret bank funds....."
I Asked –
--> If west had not paid any heed to this issue (openly) and if there were
no recession, then was it so that Advani Jee had not taken up the
issue as an agenda?
I, like many others, think that Swiss Issue should be taken very
seriously and should be cleared as early and as clearly possible.
On this, he said –
à I had written in the first one as to how my effort (related to Swiss bank) of 1987 was aborted by arresting me.
It is not easy to make Swiss banks to unlock their secrets. It means compelling the Swiss government to change their law.
It would be possible only if the West exerted pressure on the Swiss.
The West has begun doing only now.
Otherwise we can raise the issue, but that will be only a propaganda.
We cannot succeed. Now we can, if the government does something effective in collaboration with the West. ß
Well, I agree with him that getting information out of Swiss and acting on it is a bit of Herculean task.
Now that the western countries have started hunting for bank a/c and names, Swiss Govt has agreed to expose (only on demand) the list of account holders and related details.
It’s just worthless to ask that why any previous Govt. did not ask for Swiss exposure.
Also, as we know, many of these themselves hold a Swiss A/C!
