{"id":3386,"date":"2011-03-28T15:23:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T09:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T09:53:35","slug":"indias-supreme-court-castigates-ed-for-incompetence-on-black-money-hasan-ali-hawala-corruption-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2011\/03\/28\/indias-supreme-court-castigates-ed-for-incompetence-on-black-money-hasan-ali-hawala-corruption-case\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#039;s Supreme Court castigates ED for incompetence on Black Money Hasan Ali Hawala Corruption Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Supreme Court has become a schoolmaster for the errant Indian investigative agencies which keep showing glaring incompetence and reluctance to go after top offenders.The Indian government has also come under the harsh scrutiny in the last few months for its promotion of corrupt officials.The 2G Telecom Scam has netted India&#8217;s former Telecom Minister after the Supreme Court took charge of India&#8217;s CBI from the government.It seems that only the Supreme Court can get the police and investigative agencies to move against powerful,corrupt bureaucrats,politicians and their cronies.No other government agency has the will to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Hasan Ali a small time businessman under the scanner for possessing an astounding $8 billion in black money in Swiss bank accounts has been roaming free for the last 4 years.It was only after the Supreme Court took over the case that the Enforcement Directorate has started moving (albeit at a snail&#8217;s pace).The Agency like other government departments seems compromised as it was sitting on a billion dollar corruption case for FOUR YEARS.After it was forcefully woken up from its slumber,it has still not moved fast enough.It is evident that this huge amount of money was being held by Hasan Ali on behalf of powerful politicians\/businessmen.But rather than doing anything investigative,the ED continues to sleep.The Supreme Court sharply castigated the agency and has said that a joint team from other agences like NIA,CBI should be formed to look after this case.As usual the government representative stalled for more time.The $8 billion is surely giving sleepless nights to its rightful benami owner.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"ctl00_bodyplaceholdercontent_dvArtheadline\">\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/2011\/03\/28141509\/Hasan-Ali-case--SC-pulls-up-E.html?h=A1\">Hasan Ali case | SC pulls up ED, adjourns hearing to Tuesday<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED)  why its investigation continued to focus on Pune-based businessman Hasan  Ali Khan and why the agency was not roping in the services of the  Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing and the National  Intelligence Agency.\u201cNo further information is forthcoming from  the agencies. It has stopped there. Only one individual is being held.  What about the others?\u201d asked the court while perusing the status report  submitted in sealed reports.<\/p>\n<p>The bench comprising justices Sudershan Reddy and Surinder Nijjar said they wanted a special investigation team built up with officers from all the top government agencies to probe the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>However,  solicitor general Gopal Subramanium, who appeared for the ED asked  he  court to wait for one more status report before implementing the move.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Other Greenworldinvestor Articles expanding on this one<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2011\/01\/25\/indian-government-shamelessly-defends-corrupt-officialsblack-money-despite-claims-to-the-contrary\/\">Indian Government shamelessly defends Corrupt Officials,Black Money despite claims to the contrary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2010\/12\/14\/indias-supreme-court-extremely-shocked-by-industries-minister-role-in-farmer-suicides\/\">India\u2019s Supreme Court Extremely Shocked by Industries Minister Role in Farmer Suicides<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2010\/12\/07\/is-india-already-a-banana-nation-as-union-minister-threatens-high-court-judge\/\">Is India already a Banana Republic as Union Minister Threatens High Court Judge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2010\/12\/01\/indias-supreme-court-blasts-governmentreveals-indias-investigative-agencies-are-mere-puppets\/\">India\u2019s Supreme Court Blasts Government,Reveals India\u2019s Investigative Agencies are Mere Puppets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2010\/09\/13\/supreme-court-to-investigate-the-multi-billion-dollar-2g-auction-corruption-scam-engineered-by-telecom-minister-raja\/\">Are 30% of Indians Totally Utterly Corrupt \u2013 Does not seem an Exaggeration given the Number of Corruption Scandals being Exposed<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Supreme Court has become a schoolmaster for the errant Indian investigative agencies which keep showing glaring incompetence and reluctance to go after top offenders.The Indian<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[698,743,799,939,1247,1373,1613,2243,2441,2482,2969,3100,3263,3325,3393,4079,4317,4556,4557,5264],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-big-business","tag-black-money","tag-bureaucracy","tag-cbi","tag-corruption","tag-debt","tag-ed","tag-government","tag-hawala","tag-housing","tag-economy-indian-capital-markets","tag-interest-rate","tag-judge","tag-land","tag-legislature","tag-poor","tag-regulator","tag-scam","tag-scandal","tag-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}