US diplomat involved in Khobragade conspirancy identified ...action to follow soon !

[telugodu]

discount given by travel agency cannot be a crime. Evading Indian tax could be, although I find it strange that US officials have tax exempt status in India, could be some kind of bilateral agreement and if thats so that India can book him

We will and should arrest him...Our politicians are way more crooked when it comes to politics...
They know how to create a shit and come out of it ...

 

[Indo-guy]

@Indo-guy keep us updated with more news.

Devyani Khobragade case: India sets taxmen loose on US embassy
Saurabh Shukla | Mail Today | New Delhi, December 27, 2013 | UPDATED 10:21 IST
After the nuclear tests in 1998, the US put severe sanctions against India. In a role reversal, it's the American embassy in New Delhi feeling the pinch of "sanctions" imposed by the Indian foreign ministry, including an impending visit by the taxman. The foreign ministry has asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes to make an unprecedented scrutiny of tax returns, salaries and employment details of embassy employees, as well as exemptions claimed by establishments allied to the mission.

Mail Today has also learnt that US ambassador Nancy Powell had to cancel a scheduled trip to Nepal after the foreign ministry refused to extend her special privileges that usually come with the job. Powell had notified the foreign ministry about her trip and asked for the use of the protocol lounge and other privileges like security and immigration assistance, but she was curtly reminded that all of these had been withdrawn as a retaliatory measure to protest the treatment of Khobragade. The US Embassy did not reply to Mail Today's email for a response on this issue.

To make its displeasure even clearer, US deputy chief of mission Michael Pelletier was summoned on Christmas eve - a time when most Americans would be having a traditional turkey dinner with the family - and served a demarche or diplomatic protest by Vikram Doraisamy, the head of the Americas desk at the external affairs ministry. This was yet another note to protest the unsatisfactory US response to India's request for dropping of charges against Khobragade and signal that Washington needed to speed up her diplomatic identity card in New York.

The US also has to change her visa status now that she is accredited to India's mission to the UN.

 

[sincity]

discount given by travel agency cannot be a crime. Evading Indian tax could be, although I find it strange that US officials have tax exempt status in India, could be some kind of bilateral agreement and if thats so that India can book him

B.S claim by the India government, India can't break the agreement if they allow the US diplomat exempt from taxes and now they revoke the agreement and find some loophole to ties it up with a taxes evasion charge.

 

[Developereo]

Thoroughly enjoying Indians feeding a troll, who is probably a Pakistani. Go on feeding, he will keep on answering back to get more feeding. Vicious circle, eh???

Actually, @sincity is an interesting character.

Sometimes, he is very cogent and make incisive comments. Other times, he starts fooling around...

 

[sincity]

India have no legal ground to charge US diplomat, US diplomat haven't commit any crimes, they will trump up charge and hopefully US government will negotiate with India and let Indian criminal go free in the US.

 

[Indo-guy]

@Indo-guy keep us updated with more news.

India tells the US it means business: Tough-talking Delhi sets the taxmen loose on the American Embassy
By Saurabh Shukla
PUBLISHED: 00:30 GMT, 27 December 2013 | UPDATED: 01:54 GMT, 27 December 2013


After the nuclear tests in 1998, the US put severe sanctions against India.
In a role reversal, it's the American embassy in New Delhi feeling the pinch of "sanctions" imposed by the Indian foreign ministry, including an impending visit by the taxman.
The foreign ministry has asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes to make an unprecedented scrutiny of tax returns, salaries and employment details of embassy employees, as well as exemptions claimed by establishments allied to the mission.

Mail Today has also learnt that US ambassador Nancy Powell had to cancel a scheduled trip to Nepal after the foreign ministry refused to extend her special privileges that usually come with the job.
Powell had notified the foreign ministry about her trip and asked for the use of the protocol lounge and other privileges like security and immigration assistance, but she was curtly reminded that all of these had been withdrawn as a retaliatory measure to protest the treatment of Khobragade.
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The US Embassy did not reply to Mail Today's email for a response on this issue.

To make its displeasure even clearer, US deputy chief of mission Michael Pelletier was summoned on Christmas eve - a time when most Americans would be having a traditional turkey dinner with the family - and served a demarche or diplomatic protest by Vikram Doraisamy, the head of the Americas desk at the external affairs ministry.
This was yet another note to protest the unsatisfactory US response to India's request for dropping of charges against Khobragade and signal that Washington needed to speed up her diplomatic identity card in New York.
The US also has to change her visa status now that she is accredited to India's mission to the UN.
New territory
But, such is the anger in South Block over the treatment of Khobragade that ministry mandarins are going where they have never gone before.
The foreign ministry has now set the taxman loose against the American mission and its employees.
The foreign office has asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to send a tax notice to the US Embassy seeking details of the tax returns, taxes paid and employment details of all the family members and local staffers at the embassy and its consulates in India.
Sources say the department will also do a 360 degree mapping of the diplomats and their families with a finetoothed comb now, something which has never been done for diplomats.
"The US has been claiming tax exemption for the American School and its staffers. They also run a club inside the US Embassy premises as well as a beauty salon and a café. We need to know why this should be exempted from paying taxes," a source told Mail Today.
New Delhi also turned down the US's assertion that it needs prior permission from Washington before submitting such details, telling the US that they need to act fast.
Two-pronged
While India keeps up the heat on Washington, it is also strengthening its legal case.
Sources say that the US goofed up yet another point, as Devyani was covered under the Vienna Convention on diplomatic immunity of 1946 even on the day she was arrested.
Khobragade was accredited to the UN and was accorded adviser status by the US State Department, which was recognised by its Office of Foreign Missions, till December 31.
The adviser status is provided to all the officials part of the official delegation to the UN.
In this case, Devyani was assigned certain official duties during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the US for the UN General Assembly session in September 2013.
"So the question of her arrest did not arise as she enjoyed diplomatic immunity even then," a source explained.
The Indian foreign ministry has also mapped out a Plan B, which includes stopping the working of diplomats' spouses and relatives without requisite permits.
There is also likely to be close scrutiny of the diplomatic status of those working in United States Information Service and American Centre in the country.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2529594/India-tells-US-means-business-Tough-talking-Delhi-sets-taxmen-loose-American-Embassy.html#ixzz2orckSg9q

 

[Star Wars]

This is a reply to all the insults and disrespect US has given to our diplomats and their familes for few years ....

 

[Sergi]

The nanny family not the 1st family ever receive airfare from the US government and they will never be the last.

First it was misusing privilege, and shit don't fly, now it's a form a taxes evasion?

Is it really hard to understand or you just dont want to understand ???

The facility which is exclusively for US diplomats is used for Indian nationals which is wrong.
Its really funny the US is hell bent on the nanny to have proper wage and their diplomats themselves cant pay full for air tickets

 

[telugodu]

India are spineless bunch, even the Chinese make your Indian army wave the white flag.

Iran held 52 american diplomats in hostage in 1979...
What could america do...

 

[Alfa-Fighter]

Iran held 52 american diplomats in hostage in 1979...
What could america do...

They start talking with IRAN now..... US can't do anything with military power. They can only with country which has not military power to run on its money

 

[Indo-guy]

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Spit on US laws such as NDA which are full of double standards ...are purport crimes against humanity such as unlawful detention at Guantanamo bay !!!

LOLLL. How about sheltering an absconder from due process of law?
How about spriting away Citizens of another Sovereign Country........Act of Criminal Abduction, anybody?
LOLL, the waters are getting murkier still....

 

[telugodu]

LOLLL. How about sheltering an absconder from due process of law?
How about spriting away Citizens of another Sovereign Country........Act of Criminal Abduction, anybody?
LOLL, the waters are getting murkier still....

yes india should give citizenship to snowden...That should teach these americans and their cheeleaders ...

 

[janon]

LOLLL. How about sheltering an absconder from due process of law?
How about spriting away Citizens of another Sovereign Country........Act of Criminal Abduction, anybody?
LOLL, the waters are getting murkier still....

Well if that citizen volunteered to be spirited away, it's not abduction.

But there are other charges, like helping a fugitive get away, accessory after the fact, and a host of others. I'm sure our legal luminaries will be able to weave such a web of litigation that their grandkids will need lawyers.

 

[karan.1970]

The tickets for Philip Richard and the two children were booked in an Air India flight on December 10 (with an open return ticket return valid up to March 3, 2014). The tickets worth R1,00,895 were exempt from service tax of 4.50% as per the norms followed in the case of diplomatic missions.
In an atmosphere where both sides are watching the other closely, this is being seen as misuse of diplomatic privilege as tax exemption is offered to an embassy for its use and not for whisking Indian citizens away.

The said tax evasion while buying air tickets for Richard family has happened and is punishable under Indian law ...

India may proceed with action on concerned US official unless quid pro quo is reached ...


India is making sure that it will not let US off the hook easily...

Kind of ironical that the blow will be disguised as tax fraud amounting to about Rs 7000 or so

Not a new thing for USA. After all, they were able to book Al capone for Tax fraud only