AAP supremo demands actions against HSBC officials

"The names i revealed in a PC on 9 Nov 2012 are there in IE list today. We stand vindicated(1/3)," Kejriwal said in a tweet.

"But bigger Q is - what did first cong and now BJP do? Nothing? Why? Some of these people claim to hv both BJP n Cong in their pocket(2/3)," he said.

"Why doesn't BJP govt act against HSBC officials? They will spill the beans. US did precisely that(3/3)," he said.

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said that the government would investigate new names added to a list of Indians with accounts at HSBC in Geneva as part of a bigger inquiry into black money issue.

According to reports, about 600 Indians were believed to have accounts at HSBC. Those names were shared in 2011 with India by France after an HSBC employee leaked the data. But the list now doubled to 1,200 Indians with a collective holding of 25,000 crores.

TMC MP Derek O'Brien tweeted: "If Parliament was in session,the front page Indian Express story on power money in phoren accounts would have rocked both Houses...boom."

A Special Investigation Team (SIT), comprising retired judges, was constituted to probe the black money issue under the direction by the Supreme Court in 2009 based on a petition filed by noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani.

The Centre on Oct 29 last had submitted a list of 627 names of Indians who hold foreign bank accounts in countries like Switzerland to the Supreme Court. It was also learnt then that the SIT would submit a report on 220 names and would share details with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and other agencies on the matter.

The move was taken following a severe reprimand from the Supreme Court which is monitoring the attempts to recover untaxed or black money stashed abroad.

Pradip Burman of Dabur India, Rajkot-based bullion trader Pankaj Chimanlal Lodhya and Goa-based mining company Timblo Private Limited and its five Directors were among the names that figured in the list which was filed in the apex court by the government, sources said.