New Delhi: An #International #think-tank had ranked India on third position in the list of #BlackMoney with the estimate of $94.76 billion (about Rs. 6 lakh crore) illicit wealth outflows in 2012.
He had enlisted #Russia on the top with $122.86 #billion and #China on the #second position with $249.57 billion in terms of the #quantum of Black Money moving out of a country for 2012.
The issue of black money has been matter of a serious political debate in India, including during the last general elections. While the new government has said it is committed to tackle this menace, there are no official figures for the overall size of illicit wealth stashed by Indians within the country or abroad.
The #Washington-based research and advocacy group further said that the illicit fund outflows from India accounts for nearly 10 per cent of a record #USD 991.2 billion worth illegal capital that moved out of all developing and emerging nations in 2012 to facilitate “crime, corruption and tax evasion”.
The latest released by the #Global #Financial #Integrity (#GFI) claimed that the cumulative illicit money moving out of the country over a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 has risen to USD 439.59 billion (Rs 28 lakh crore).
As per GFI’s 2014 Annual Global Update on Illicit #Financial #Flows report, that the cumulative illicit outflows from developing economies for ten years between 2003 and 2012 stands at $6.6 trillion.
This includes $439.59 billion worth illicit money that has moved out of India in these ten years, putting the country at fourth position in overall ranking for a decade, after China ($1.25 trillion), Russia (973.86 billion) and Mexico $514.26 billion).
#GFI said that an average of $43.96 billion of black money is being sent out of India every year in these ten years.
The estimate of this huge illegal money flow follows a Supreme Court-constituted Special Investigation Team (#SIT) tracing Rs 4,479 crore in the accounts of Indians figuring in a list of account holders of HSBC’s Geneva branch.
Besides, the SIT has also disclosed tracing unaccounted wealth worth Rs 14,958 crore within India, which are now being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate and the Income Tax Department.
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