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"Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who is himself out on bail should come out and tell us if he is going to investigate this case involving one of his leaders", Sitharaman told reporters on Sunday afternoon. Sitharaman also shared her two cents on Nawaz Sharif's explosive interview with Dawn where he claimed that Pakistan could have prevented the 2018 Mumbai terror attack. "Bring the money back and put Rs 15 lakhs in the account of every Indian as you promised", he tweeted, without naming BJP chief Amit Shah.
"Ms Sitharaman said the government has given enough time for people to declare assets held in foreign countries under the relevant black money laws".
Just hours after Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman slammed former finance minister P Chidambaram over the black money chargesheet, Chidambaram took a caustic dig at the defence minister.
Earlier on Friday, the Income Tax Department had filed four criminal cases against the former finance minister and his family.
The I-T department has filed four chargesheets against Chidambaram, alleging that he did not disclose his foreign assets in his 2016 IT affidavit.
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In July 2017, Pakistan Supreme Court disqualified former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office over corruption charges brought to fore by the Panama Papers case.
While addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Nirmala Sitharaman said, "For some time now, we have been hearing a lot of action by the Income Tax authorities against former finance minister P Chidambaram and his family". Taking a jibe at Sitharaman, Chidambaram said that the former would be removed as Defence Minister and appointed as appointed a lawyer of the Income Tax Department. "The Congress party's president, who is also out on bail on a financial matter, he should certainly comment and tell people of India if he is going to investigate on this senior leader of the party (P. Chidambaram) not having disclosed income held overseas", she said.
Nalini Chidambaram, Karti and Srinidhi and a firm linked to Karti have been accused of not disclosing, either partly or fully, immovable assets such as one at Barton, Cambridge, UK, worth Rs 5.37 crore, property worth Rs 80 lakh in the same country and assets worth Rs 3.28 crore in the US. "IT estimates illegal assets held by UPA's FM to be to the tune of 3 Bn dollars!" tweeted Amit Shah.
"This explains why despite Supreme Court's orders Sonia Gandhi, former PM Dr Manmohan Singh and then FM P Chidambaram dragged their feet on formation of SIT, one of the first decisions taken by Modi government, to fight Black Money!" How could they indict their own selves?,' he added.
"On the facts of the present case, it would be totally unreasonable and perverse to conclude there has been any willful failure to disclose any information about the foreign assets". The investments in question were made through bank remittances.
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