Black Money in India Review (Indian Black Money)
You may want to know that exactly how much black money is gone to the Swiss bank accounts by the Indian Corrupt politicians, top level government officials and business tycoons right?
Up to now, there was not any data analyzed such kind of black money outflow. But now, Dev Kar, The Leading Economist at US based Global Financial Integrity has come up with the accurate data of Indian Black money.
These Data about Indian black money are really shocking. According to the Chief Economist Dev Kar’s report,
the following are the highlights of the Indian Black money.
- India has been drained of $462 billion (Rs 20,556,848,000,000 or over Rs 20 lakh crore) between 1948 and 2008.
Well, Yes. Since 1948 up to 2008, almost Rs.20 Lakh Crore ($ 462 Billion) black money has been transferred to Swiss bank and other offshore bank accounts.
- The amount is nearly 40% of India’s gross domestic product, and nearly 12 times the size of the estimated loss to the government because of the 2G spectrum scam.
- The report found that black money to the tune of $22.7-27.3 billion a year has been leaving India over the five-year period, 2002-2006.
- A US state department report estimates that hawala transactions in India range between $13 billion and $17 billion annually, and present a security threat to the country.
Economists capture the outflow of black money in two ways—by estimating outflows that are unrecorded in the country’s external accounts and the ways through which residents can accrue foreign exchange abroad by under-invoicing exports and over-invoicing imports. Both these models can show illicit outflows as well as illicit inflows. Traditionally, economists have tended to take the direction of flows as they are and simply netted out inflows from outflows in a straightforward manner.
According to many economists, the above are the underestimated figures. The real figures are much higher than the above figures. This shows that how much lucrative country India is?
Every year literally billions of dollars have been transferred to the Swiss Bank and other offshore accounts illegally and there is not any track record of this money.