Supreme Court unhappy with pace of Hasan Ali probe

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Hasan Ali walks free and now he may escape to another country by the help of the political background he has. Congress is one who is protecting this man who is a helper of terrorists. But the congress say that Narendra Modi is killing innocent Muslims. David Colmen Headley , in his interrogation with the F.B.I. said that Shorrabudin and his wife were I.S.I. agents and were sent to kill Narendra Modi and still the congress say that it was a fake encounter. We really are being ruled by foreigners. INDIA is being ruled by pakistani terrorists, american government and the chinese communists. That is the reason the GoI is not taking any steps to attack the terror camps across the border in pakistan and also not taking any steps to stop the aggressive nature of the china on the other hand.

Rubbish claim. How did you come to this conclusion ?

This money stored in his account is congress party money used to fund elections and buy clout in media and other institutions and not to mention independent mla's/mp's.

To claim money is being given to terrorists is nonsensical claim and rest of your post is useless ranting.

 

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Google it: How Enforcement Directorate botched up Hasan Ali case​

The Enforcement Directorate had not only botched up investigations into the Hasan Ali case, it acted like an amateur researcher. Just days ago, Headlines Today had showed the ED had botched up the case. Now it has learnt the ED relied only on Google to collect information related to key players like alleged arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. There was no verification, no cross-checking of facts and no conformation through official channels.

As if that was not enough, the Enforcement Directorate, in a bid to join the loose ends, even got some facts wrong.

The documents - the crucial evidence in the Hasan Ali case - which the ED submitted in court to establish credentials of people connected to Ali's billions are simply downloaded from the internet: from sites like Wikipedia, Linkedin, Spoke and Superiorpics.

Sample this: Who is Adnan Khashoggi?
For the Enforcement Directorate, the answer lies with superiorpics.com and not with official channels like the CBI or the Interpol.

Another downloaded credential is that of Marcel Rohner, the UBS group CEO who signed the crucial letter detailing eight billion dollars, in Ali's UBS account. His information was downloaded from Wikipedia, an open database source which can be edited by anyone.
In fact Headlines Today has discovered:

The ED downloaded the credential of Markus Grossmann, who was the Executive Director of UBS and the portfolio manager of Hasan Ali Khan, from Linkedin.

Hartmann Reto's information was downloaded from a site called wysspartner.ch

The ED downloaded the credential of Prabhu Guptara, the executive director of Wolfsberg and addressee of the notarized documents seized from Ali, from a portal called ttf.org.

And finally, Matthias Wuthirich, a client advisor with UBS, Zurich who signed Ali's bank statements - the ED just clicked on spoke.com to find his details.

Another close look at these documents will tell you that ED downloaded this so-called crucial evidence just seven days before filing the case.

This begs the question: What was the agency doing for the two years it was supposedly investigating the case?

Surprisingly, the ED never cross checked these details officially through its other channels like CBI Interpol. Nor did it alert Interpol for red corner notice against the persons involved in the Ali case even as Ali's account was tagged as funds from weapon sale having transaction with arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.

Headlines Today's investigation also reveals that the ED got its facts wrong in the Ali case. For instance according to the ED report, the genesis of the Hasan story is an account having 1.5 million dollars opened in his name in UBS bank of Singapore in 1982. The ED says this account was opened on the introduction of Hartmann Reto of UBS, Singapore. But Headlines Today has discovered from the evidence provided by ED itself that Reto had never looked after its Singapore portfolio till 1988.

Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy said: "These are tangled bureaucratic techniques like in (Bofors scam accused Ottavio) Quattrochi case when some body is to be protected. Hassan Ali Khan was a benaami for people in Delhi. The ED has been working quietly without any oversight. For the last three years, there has been huge pressure to let Hasan Ali off the hook."

Hasan Ali's lawyer, who has cross-examined ED's Investigative Officer, finds procedural lapses in the probe. "I have put that question to the investigative officer. During the cross-examination, he said that we did not summon any of the persons named in the Internet print out. He did not even bother to investigate those persons to authenticate the investigation of ED," says Ali's lawyer' Ramakant Gaur.

But that's not all. The ED, in the past four years, has sent letter rogatories to all countries except Switzerland, where Hasan Ali is accused of stashing away his billions.

The Enforcement Directorate's clumsy investigation in Hasan Ali case ensured that it will fall flat in the court of law. Now the question is: Was the ED foolish enough to do that or was there a design behind it?

 

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Hasan Ali Khan diverted Russian tycoon's $ 3 billion

Pune-based businessman Hasan Ali Khan, accused of stashing black money abroad and evading tax, diverted unaccounted money of foreign nationals too. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) stumbled upon this information while it was investigating the money laundering case against Khan and his aide Kashinath Tapuriah. The ED has learnt that Khan diverted $3 billion (R13,500 crore) of a Russian tycoon and received commission of $10 million (R45 crore) for it, which, officials said is being verified. The deal was fixed by Tapuriah and executed by Khan.
The agency has now begun a probe to find out details of the deal. ED officials recently questioned Khan and Tapuriah about the deal when they were in the agency's custody. Khan and Tapuriah are in judicial custody.
"Khan told us there was a deal between Tapuriah and the Russian tycoon, but it didn't materialise," said a senior ED official. But Tapuriah claimed that there was no such deal, said the official.
On probing deeper, ED found that Khan and Tapuriah had differences over the deal, which created a rift between them. "Their varied answers showed they were trying to hide details of the deal," the official said.
ED officials have now sought help from Russian authorities to unearth more information on the deal and has asked for the banking transaction details of Khan's and the Russian tycoon's accounts.
Also, details of the information about the deal have also been put in the status report submitted by the ED in the Supreme Court.
According to sources, the ED has preliminary information on Khan and Tapuriah's dealings with other foreign businessmen too, which are being verified.
Meanwhile, as per the Supreme Court's direction, the ED has video recorded statements of Khan, Tapuriah and their associate Philip Anandraj. The agency is waiting for Khan's wife Rheema to record her statement. According to sources, she has been evading the ED by sending letters seeking time to appear before the agency.
Khan is accused of acquiring and holding $8 billion (Rs36,000 crore) in Swiss bank.

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Hasan net widens to Puducherry LG, Maya secy

Hasan net widens to Puducherry LG, Maya secy​

NEW DELHI: Investigation in the Hasan Ali case has reached a crucial stage with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) deciding to question Puducherry lieutenant governor Iqbal Singh and UP chief minister Mayawati's principal secretary Vijay Shankar Pandey in the $8 billion money-laundering probe.

While summons were issued to Iqbal Singh on Friday, ED is likely to issue notice to Pandey in the next few days asking him to appear for questioning, sources said.

Faced with Supreme Court's adverse observations on the probe into one of the country's biggest money laundering cases, the ED has brought important functionaries under the scanner. Hassan Ali and his associates, including Kolkata-based businessman Kashinath Tapuriah, both in ED custody, have been slapped with tax evasion penalty of Rs 70,000 crore.

The decision to summon Iqbal Singh and Pandey was taken after a key Hassan Ali aide and a Congress functionary from Bihar, Amlendu Pandey, stated under oath that he had been in regular contact with both Singh and the UP CM's principal secretary.

Mention of the UP CM's office in connection with Hassan Ali also came up in the Supreme Court on Friday when counsel for ED pointed out how the CM's office was taking undue interest in allegedly derailing the money-laundering investigation.

ED informed the court that Jasvir Singh — a co-petitioner with "tainted" former IIT Kharagpur professor S K Dubey seeking inquiry against top agency officials — is a DIG-rank officer attached to the office of the CM's principal secretary.

In an affidavit submitted to the court, ED director Arun Mathur and his senior officials S K Sahni and Prabhakant said they were never present in Kolkata on August 1, 2009 and therefore there was no question of taking any undue favour for their hotel stay from anybody, as alleged by petitioner Jasvir Singh.

Amlendu Pandey was questioned by ED officials in Mumbai on Thursday. The ED is investigating Tapuriah's UP connection. Both Tapuriah and Pandey had allegedly accompanied Hassan Ali to Singapore to open bank accounts.

Pandey's statements were video recorded and taken under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, which is admissible as evidence in court. He was raided by ED sleuths in the last week of March for his association with Ali. Pandey is believed to have helped the Pune-based punter to obtain a passport from Patna under forged documents.

The ED argued that there was an attempt to malign senior officials to derail the ongoing investigation in the Hassan Ali case which has reached a conclusive stage. ED director Mathur, in his affidavit, said his house was never searched by CBI when he was administrator, Daman. His deputy Balesh Kumar affirmed that he was cleared by vigilance/CVC and his name was on the panel before he was selected for special director in ED.

 

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Basically Hasan Ali is a fund manager for our politicians and bureaucrats.

 

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ED uncovers Hasan Ali's links to Russian billionaire


MUMBAI: Suleiman Kerimov, a Russian billionaire and one of the world's richest men, is currently being investigated by the enforcement directorate (ED) on account of his business links with money launderer Hasan Ali Khan. A chargesheet submitted by ED to a special court here on Friday said Khan and his advisor Kashinath Tapuria had travelled from Zurich to London in the oil tycoon's private jet.

ED officials said it was not clear who introduced 44-year-old Kerimov to Khan. "Their meeting happened in 2002. Kerimov's main business interests are in oil exploration and he has some businesses in Central Asia. Khan wanted to buy out some industrial units," an official said. Officials suspect that Kerimov may have invested in India indirectly.

According to the ED, Khan and Tapuriah laundered more than Rs 400 crore. "They met in 1994-95 and stayed for a year at Hotel Oberoi in Mumbai, where they ran up a bill of Rs 1.5 crore," said an official, adding that they had established Khan's two foreign accounts in Singapore and another one in his wife Rheema's name.

The chargesheet said that more than Rs 300 crore was transferred into Hasan Ali Khan's SBC Singapore account from his UBS Zurich account—the other fund transfer was from Khan's Sarasin Bank account in Switzerland to SK Financial Services' Barclays bank account. Rheema had $600,000 in her account in UBS Zurich but the bank closed it because of her questionable credentials.

ED said that after the Hyderabad police seized his passport in 1997, Tapuriah advised Khan to apply for another passport using forged papers. "Khan obtained passports from Hyderabad, Patna, Mumbai, Pune, Guwahati and travelled to several foreign destinations to open accounts to launder his and Tapuriah's money stashed in their several accounts in Zurich," the chargesheet said, adding that Patna Congress leader Amlendu Pandey and Lt Governor of Puducherry Iqbal Singh helped Khan get a passport.

According to ED, the money came from international arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, the sale of stolen Nizam's jewellery and antiques from Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad. Khan also handled the black money of several people, which is currently being probed. "Khan has had an account with UBS Singapore and UBS Zurich since 1986-87. This account was opened on the recommendation of Adnan Khashoggi, and the arms dealer transferred $300 million into this," said an official. However, the ED is yet to establish their links.

 

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Money laundering scam: Bombay HC grants Hasan Ali bail


MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday granted bail to Hasan Ali, who was arrested in an alleged multi-crore money laundering scam.

Hasan Ali collapsed in the courtroom during the hearing of his bail plea. A doctor was called to attend Ali in the courtroom.

Ali, the Pune-based owner of race horses, was granted bail on a personal surety of Rs 5 lakh.