Dr. Swamy writes to Arun Jaitley for permission to prosecute Finance Secretary.

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Dr Subramanian Swamy has written to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for permission to prosecute Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia under Prevention Of Corruption Act.

Now this is some serious stuff which can damage the BJP.

 

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Swamy has termed Adhia as a corrupt officer and written a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday, seeking a demand for prosecution under section 197 of CrPc and section 19 of Prevention of Corruption Act.

Senior BJP leader and firebrand politican Subramanian Swamy has now opened a front against the Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia in the Modi led union government. Swamy has termed Adhia as a corrupt officer and written a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday, seeking a demand for prosecution under section 197 of CrPc and section 19 of Prevention of Corruption Act.

Swamy alleged that, Adhia transferred the officers who were doing good job in cases like the National Herald. The Finance Secretary has also transferred the new IFS officers who were doing well by staying in the department, Swamy told media.

 

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Swamy accuses Hasmukh Adhia-led Gang of Four of trying to save Chidambaram by intimidating ED officer Rajeshwar Singh

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday accused the Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia-led Gang of Four officers for trying to terminate the services of the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s Joint Director Rajeshwar Singh to save tainted former Finance Minister P Chidambaram from the Aircel-Maxis scam. Swamy was addressing the media after Finance Ministry produced a manufactured Research and Analytical Wing (RAW) input trying to give an impression that Rajeshwar Singh was in touch with an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent in Dubai. After Swamy’s press conference, the ED issued a statement giving a clean chit to Rajeshwar Singh, rebutting the manufactured RAW input of 2016 dubiously produced by the Finance Ministry.

“Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia-led Gang of Four is playing all frauds against honest ED officer Rajeshwar Singh and intimidating him for charge sheeting Chidambaram. This Gang of Four is trying to destabilize our Government’s fight against corruption and destabilize Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”

Swamy said that the ED Director Karnal Singh had already written to the RAW Chief that this input was fake and despite knowing this, Hasmukh Adhia hushed it up. He also blasted the Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Vikramjit Banerjee for arguing against Rajeshwar Singh. Swamy pointed out that Banerjee was assisted by a United Progressive Alliance (UPA) appointed Standing Counsel Adv. R. Bala, who is a known associate of Chidambaram.

“Hasmukh Adhia, who was caught for accepting gold biscuits from fugitive Nirav Modi is trying to settle scores against the Enforcement Directorate. Adhia was hushing-up the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and Income Tax report against Nirav Modi for more than year”, accused Swamy urging Prime Minister to take action against the Gang of Four officers engaged in sabotaging the corruption cases.

He also accused Adhia for entertaining fixers like Upendra Rai who is in regular touch with another member of Gang of Four. “I will expose the other three members in the Gang of Four. I will expose them and their complicity with corrupt Congress leaders like Chidambaram and Ahmed Patel in my July 8th function in Mumbai”, said Swamy.

Swamy earlier in the day in Court during arguments blasted the ASG Banerjee for playing along with frivolous petitioners to save Chidambaram. Welcoming the Supreme Court Order by the Justices Arun Mishra and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Swamy said that the attempts to derail the Aircel-Maxis case by intimidating Rajeshwar Singh by the corrupt lobbies have been plugged. “The Court has said Government may probe what they filed in sealed cover, without giving any direction. The Court also ordered that the Aircel-Maxis probe should be finished in the earlier specified time limit of six months. I will meet the Prime Minister for taking action against Hasmukh Adhia for trying to play fraud in this case by filing manufactured RAW input which was already rebutted by ED Chief,” he said urging ED Chief Karnal Singh to clarify the position. Within an hour of Swamy’s press conference, ED issued a statement giving a clean chit to Rajeshwar Singh said that all the contacts he established with the person mentioned in the RAW input was with the knowledge of the ED.

Earlier, when ASG Vikramjit Banerjee produced the RAW input in sealed cover to Judges, Rajeshwar Singh who was present in the court room moved to front and gave two confidential reports to the Judges. One was ED Chief’s letter to RAW Chief rebutting the RAW input saying that the alleged ISI agent who is an Indian citizen living in Dubai described by RAW in 2016 once made an incoming call to Rajeshwar Singh and he had promptly informed the Directorate on this and there was a valuable information to the ED. The alleged ISI agent has already visited India 10 times after the manufactured RAW input. This controversial RAW input was tweeted by Upendra Rai’s relatives, two months ago. The second letter submitted by Rajeshwar Singh was his communication with Hasmukh Adhia protesting his hostility towards Singh and blocking his promotion and entertaining complaints from the ilk of fixers like Upendra Rai.

The Enforcement Director’s press release is published below:

 

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I hope Swamy wins this battle.

 

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https://www.pgurus.com/the-frauds-b...ave-crooked-chidambaram-from-charge-sheeting/

The FRAUDS behind framing bold ED officer Rajeshwar Singh to save crooked Chidambaram from charge sheeting

Chidambaram is leaving no stone unturned to escape from being charge sheeted in the Aircel-Maxis scam

Why would Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia order to provide a manufactured Research and Analytical Wing (RAW) input in a sealed cover to Supreme Court against Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Joint Director Rajeshwar Singh? The RAW input of 2016 which has now been proved to be a total fake says that one Indian citizen Danish Shah working in Dubai was in touch with Rajeshwar Singh and Danish’s wife is a Pakistani with links to Pakistan’s Inter-Services (ISI). The ED has already said that this was baseless and Rajeshwar Singh’s contact with this person is officially recorded for investigation purposes. Now Danish Shah has come out on the media and explained his position and his role in giving inputs to the ED and his interview in Sunday Guardian exposes the fraud of RAW’s Dubai officer who is close to Manoj Prasad, a relation of tainted Subrata Rai of Sahara Group.


Dicey Hasmukh Adhia needs to answer why he did this fraud of producing an old manufactured RAW input against Rajeshwar Singh. The answer is simple: ED is going to charge sheet tainted former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in July when the Courts will re-open. The charge sheet filed against son Karti in Aircel-Maxis scam details the role of father Chidambaram and tells the court about ongoing interrogation of Chidambaram and is expected to file a supplementary charge sheet against Chidambaram soon. As per the Supreme Court’s Order, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) also has to file a charge sheet before September 12.

So what is the last way out for Chidambaram? Get Rajeshwar Singh terminated on grounds of National Security as he is the Investigating Officer of the Aircel-Maxis probe. This will frighten other officers also from touching Chidambaram. From 2011 onwards, this corrupt gang has been filing all sorts of fake cases against Rajeshwar Singh saying that he has amassed huge property and all allegations were found to be bogus by the CBI and the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). After this in 2011, the Supreme Court has ordered protection to Rajeshwar Singh from these fake cases filed by the tainted Subrata Roy of Sahara and his paid journalists Upendra Rai and Subodh Jain. These three are now facing Contempt Charges from the Supreme Court (SC) for trying to sabotage the 2G cases by intimidating the investigating officers.

Even after the NDA government came to power, Chidambaram was managing all cases with the help of his well-known buddy Arun Jaitley-led Finance Ministry. In October 2014, the Finance Ministry even lied to the Supreme Court that all probes in Aircel-Maxis scam were over and that there was no need for the services of Rajeshwar Singh in the ED! This blatant lie was told to the SC in BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s case. In December 2015, Rajeshwar Singh unexpectedly raided Karti’s home and offices and exposed at least three billion dollars worth assets of the family in 14 countries and 21 undeclared foreign bank accounts. Hasmukh Adhia and his ex-deputy US Kumawat IAS played all tricks to delay the registering of cases under Black Money Act. The 2015 raid in connection with Aircel-Maxis scam exposed the INX Media bribery case also and led to Karti’s stay in Tihar jail.

Those days the CBI Director Anil Sinha was a silent backer of Chidambaram and the situation was the same when Rakesh Asthana was heading the CBI’s Anti-Corruption Division in Delhi region. It is a million dollar question, as to why Asthana went soft on Chidambaram. The situation changed only after CBI Director Alok Verma vetoed him. The exposé of Sterling Diary shows that this Gujarat cadre officer accepted Rs.3.8 crores from Congress leader Ahmed Patel patronaged firms – Sterling Biotech and Sandesara Group. This shows how many cunning Gujarat cadre IAS and IPS officers straddle two boats – staying close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, while keeping good relations with Ahmed Patel too. Many such characters exist in this government.


Subramanian Swamy has already declared many times that Hasmukh Adhia-led Gang of Four is behind the sabotage of anti-corruption cases involving Chidambaram and Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra. Swamy said he will on July 8 name the remaining three members of the Gang of Four. On Friday he tweeted that the second member of this Gang is a top CBI officer and he has already filed a confidential, detailed complaint against this officer to Prime Minister and his role in saving Chidambaram by terminating Rajeshwar Singh by hoisting fake cases. No need of superhuman intelligence to know that it is the controversial CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana.


Rakesh Asthana has managed to collapse many high profile cases. PGurus will soon do a series on how he engineered collapses in high voltage cases. In the Aircel-Maxis case, Asthana, who was in charge on 2016 and 2017 literally did nothing. The Aircel-Maxis case was revived only after Rajeshwar Singh attached the bank deposits of Karti worth Rs.1.5 crores in October 2017 which were ratified by the PMLA Adjudicating Authority and leading to the first charge sheet in June 13, 2018.

After fixer Upendra Rai withdrew his complaint in May 2018 from the Supreme Court, the latest petitioner against Rajeshwar Singh was one Rajneesh Kapoor, who is a close associate of Jain Hawala case petitioner Vineet Narain. Narain started a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) called Braj Foundation in Vrindavan. Braj Foundation is now mired in several controversies and PGurus will soon be publishing a series after reviewing copies of the court orders on allegations of land encroachments. It is a known fact that Vineet Narain is close with many Congress leaders including Chidambaram. Narain’s assistant Kapoor filed a case in the vacation bench of Supreme Court on June 5, the same day that Rajeshwar Singh was interrogating Chidambaram. Vineet Narain is in regular touch with Rakesh Asthana also. The petition was just a rehash of the old petitions filed by Sahara employees Upendra Rai and Subodh Jain. They just added an allegation that Rajeshwar Singh is “a threat to the sovereignty of the country”.

And the Finance Secretary Adhia files manufactured RAW input on this case. The sealed cover was submitted by Additional Solicitor General Vikramjit Banerjee who was assisted in the Court by Government panel lawyer R. Bala, a UPA appointee and a known associate of Chidambaram. Adv. R. Bala was not supposed to land in this case, as he had represented Finance Ministry during UPA tenure against Rajeshwar Singh in Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) and Delhi High Court. He argued for the exit of Rajeshwar Singh from ED and lost the case in all forums. This proves that all Chidambaram friendly and bribed guys have ganged up.

Anything fishy?

Don’t the readers smell a conspiracy to save crooked Chidambaram, who is now proven to be the architect of fake Hindu Terror theory by cooking up a fake affidavit on Ishrat Jehan encounter to fix Narendra Modi and Amit Shah? Giving in a sealed cover a fake RAW input suggesting Rajeshwar Singh’s link with an ISI agent, was a brazen attempt to change the minds of Judges and arrest him under laws relating to national security. The crooked gang will go to any extent to save Chidambaram.

Here the million dollar question is when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fix these crooked persons in his Government.

I hope Swamy wins this battle.

That is a Funny thing to say.

Who's job is it to prosecute the CORRUPT ?

Narendra Modi's job or Dr. Subramanian Swamy's job ?

 

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https://www.pgurus.com/is-finance-s...ng-pnb-scamsters-nirav-modi-and-mehul-choksi/

Is Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia shielding PNB scamsters Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi?

First as the Secretary Banking and Financial Services, then as the Revenue Secretary and now as the Finance Secretary, Hasmukh Adhia from Gujarat cadre is the most powerful officer in the Finance Ministry. Owing to his proximity to the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister, he was the only bureaucrat outside the PMO and Economic Affairs Department, according to media reports, who was part of the team working on demonetization. Dr. Hasmukh Adhia, a Ph. D. in Yoga has an iron grip over the Department he heads, is known for ruthless micromanagement and has no friends in the team that he heads in the Finance Ministry. Antagonism, indifference, and brazenness have been the definitive ideas that have shaped his tenure.

Was it a deliberate ploy to not invoke the Black Money and Benami prohibition legislations against the Nirav Modi group? Was there a design in place to ensure that there was no way in which a look-out-circular could be issued against Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi?

If there is one issue that ties the entire journey of Hasmukh Adhia in the Finance Ministry like a string of pearls, it is – Nirav Modi.

In the Punjab National Bank (PNB) Scam, it is now clear that 21,666 Letters of Undertaking (LoU) were issued after 26.05.2014. It is significant to mention that 1,070, 6189, 6669, 5878 LoUs were issued in 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015 respectively[1]. All through this period, Adhia was in the Finance Ministry in very critical assignments.

Adhia joined the Department of Banking and Financial Services in the Ministry of Finance in November 2014 and was moved to the Department of Revenue in August 2015. As someone who is known to be a control freak and subjects all entities in his department to microscopic scrutiny, it appears strange, rather intriguing, as to why Adhia did not check this unbridled disaster, right under his watch.

It is an evident fact that close to 7000 Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) were issued in the PNB scam during the tenure of Adhia as Financial Services Secretary. By the time he left for Revenue, the road was set for the smooth sailing of Nirav Modi and his uncle & Gitanjali Gems owner Mehul Choksi. The inevitable happened next.

Why hide the Income Tax Raid details of Jan 2017?

A senior official of Income-tax, on strict condition of anonymity, has provided PGurus, incriminating documents pertaining to the search and investigations being conducted against the Nirav Modi group by the Income Tax Department. On January 13, 2017, authorization was provided to search the premises/ assessees pertaining to the Nirav Modi group and the said authorization was executed on January 14, 2017. In total, 17 places were searched, out of which 15 pertain to Mumbai and one each in Delhi and Jaipur. The firms include Firestar Diamond, Firestar trading, Firestar International, Gitanjali Gems, Gitanjali Exports, Gitanjali Jewellery Retail, Gitanjali Brands etc.,

PGurus is presently withholding publication of the documents pertaining to search/ investigation for verification of the authenticity. We will – however – analyze in detail this issue.

First and foremost, as the evidence unearthed by the Income Tax department appear to be sound and legally strong, why did they not share the details with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or Enforcement Directorate (ED) or Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)? Adhia is known to hold regular review meetings and the Income Tax department conducts no major search without the approval of the Revenue Secretary. That being the case, why was there such a major lapse? Is there an ulterior design? What is even more shocking is that, even after the scam tumbled out following the media coverage, the Income Tax Department has strictly guarded the evidence and has not provided all the documents to CBI, ED, and FIU, according to a whistleblower Income Tax officer. Is this a telling case of the integrity or absolute incompetence of Hasmukh Adhia? Being a well-known officer to Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his Gujarat days, did Adhia backstab Prime Minister’s declared fight against corruption?

Secondly, according to the whistleblower officer, there is no progress in the investigations made in the Nirav Modi case by Income Tax, even after 15 months. The Black Money Act and Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act were never invoked in this case, all through 2017. According to insiders, Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi were allowed to sell property after property, while the tax officials looked the other way. According to our whistleblower, there were strict instructions from the top to not proceed further against Nirav Modi. Did Adhia give any instructions to this effect? Did he keep the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the loop or make the decisions on his own? If these legislations were invoked, then a Look-out-circular would have been issued against both Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi and their fleeing from India would have been next to impossible. Nirav Modi and tax evasion are not different stories. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), another agency under Adhia had seized jewelry to the tune of Rs.1000 crores ($160 million) from the firms of Nirav Modi. However, no prosecution was launched till the scam broke and Modi flew away from India. Why, Mr. Adhia? Is every agency in your Ministry absolutely incompetent or are you rewarding this kind of behavior, that there is a serious pattern emerging?

Thirdly, The Wire website recently carried a story on gold bars being deposited in the Toshakhana which were allegedly gifted by Nirav Modi to Adhia during the Diwali of 2016.

Adhia admitted to the website that he got gold bars. But he cleverly said he don’t know who was the gift supplier. Mr. Adhia, who are you fooling? As a Government servant, you should have alerted the CBI or Delhi Police first and submitting to Toshakhana is totally illegal. Here you are trying to save the person who gifted gold bars.

a letter to the Prime Minister, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has alleged that the said gold bars, gifted to a senior Finance Ministry official by Nirav Modi, were deposited in the Toshakhana only because they were mistakenly opened by the servant in front of another IAS officer who had come to wish Diwali. However, Swamy did not name any official who received these doubtful gifts. As strange as it may sound, the Gold bars don’t find any entry in the Toshakhana records and the missing gold bars and the mystery man will come back to haunt Adhia in days to come.

Uday Singh Kumawat, the trusted officer (Joint Secretary in Revenue Department) in the Adhia Administration has been playing mischief in this case too. Did he act as an intermediary in this case for Adhia? Is that the reason Adhia turned a blind eye to Kumawat and his debauchery that PGurus have reported in detail[3]? Was he rewarded for this very purpose by getting Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) retrospectively extend his tenure in the Finance Ministry? Were all these details suppressed from the ACC headed by the Prime Minister?

Was it a deliberate ploy to not invoke the Black Money and Benami prohibition legislations against the Nirav Modi group? Was there a design in place to ensure that there was no way in which a look-out-circular could be issued against Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi? Was there an escape plan in place that was handed over to Nirav Modi to help him out?

This article poses more questions than answers. Though we are in possession of many documents pertaining to the Nirav Modi case, we are at present verifying the same before we run them here. The one question that begs a reply is – did Hasmukh Adhia let his naked ambition ride roughshod on all principles and ethics on which this Government had promised to fight corruption?

Adhia is known to be a stickler for vigilance issues and in most cases, he has taken very harsh decisions that were never heard of in the Ministry. PGurus is glad to hold the mirror to Adhia and request that he practice the standards he wants to preach. Adhia needs to answer now and we will continue to ask the important questions. He must reply as to why he withheld the Income Tax raid findings of January 2017 at Nirav Modi and uncle Mehul Choksi firms?

Truth has an uncanny way of manifesting itself and we will continue our quest for the truth.