There is a common saying in our country
Mera bharat maahaan 100 mein se ninyanvein bemaan
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---- $1456 billion
Russia---$ 470 billion
UK-------$390 billion
Ukraine- $100 billion
China-----$ 96 billion
This had been brought up by the bjp during the elections.
Howewer the swiss bank states something else.
Seeking to demolish the "myth" over these figures being "circulated as gospel truth", a top official at the Swiss [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Bankers[/COLOR][/COLOR]' Association said from Basel that there were no truth at all in such statistics.
"Anyone claiming to have such figures should be forced to identify their source and explain the methodology used to produce them," said the SBA's Head of International Communications, James Nason.
"We take all our statistics from Swiss National Bank and statistics about 'black money' simply do not exist," he added.
Nason said he was aware of such figures being quoted to a SBA report on [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]bank [COLOR=blue ! important]deposits[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] in the Swiss banks by people of various nationalities, which put Indians as the biggest depositors there, but asserted that there were no truth in it and it never published any such report.
"About 18 months ago some mischievous person launched a story on the [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Internet[/COLOR][/COLOR] saying the Swiss Bankers Association had issued a report in 2006 showing the amount of so-called 'black money' deposited in Switzerland by citizens of countries such as India, China, Russia and Ukraine and quoted figures in the billions.
"The figures were rapidly picked up in the Indian media and in Indian opposition circles, and circulated as gospel truth. However, this story was a complete fabrication. The Swiss Bankers Association never published such a report," Nason noted.
These reports have said that Indians had over 1.4 trillion dollars in Swiss banks, followed by Russia (470 billion dollars), UK (390 billion report), Ukraine (100 billion dollar) and China (96 billion dollars) at end of 2006.
Nason clarified further that the Swiss National Bank gives out figures for value of [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]securities[/COLOR][/COLOR] held in custody accounts for domestic and foreign clients, but no break ups are given on the basis of nationality of foreign clients.
"The Swiss National Bank gives a figure for the value of [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]securities[/COLOR][/COLOR] (mainly bonds and shares) held in custody accounts. At the end of June 2009 the total value was 3,985 billion Swiss francs. This figure is for all clients -- Swiss and foreign institutional, commercial and private clients," Nason said.
"Of this, 2,237 billion Swiss francs (56 per cent) was held on behalf of foreign institutional, commercial and private clients. Foreign private clients account for 694 billion Swiss francs (17.5 per cent of the whole amount).
"The Swiss National Bank does not break these (value of securities) figures down according to the nationality of clients, so there is no way to see how much is owned by Indian institutional, commercial or private clients," Nason said.
http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/no_bl...wiss_banks.php
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