*NEW DELHI – A Congress leader, Kapil Sibal, claimed that Indian governmentofficials and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders were involved in a moneylaundering scam that exchanged demonetised currency notes past the deadlineset by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a commission of 40 per cent, TheHindulinkreported.*
Former Indian law minister Kapil Sibal made these claims during a pressconference, in which he showed video clips of a sting operation, andclaimed that a government official divulged that BJP’s top leadership wasinvolved in the fraud, the news website said.
The official, identified as one Rahul Ratharekar from the India’sintelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), claimed that“officials from 26 department were involved in the money exchangeoperation.”
Quoting from the conversation in the sting operation, Mr. Sibal allegedthat the RAW official claimed currency notes worth thousands of crores wereprinted abroad and transported into India by special aircraft.
While playing another video clip, the Congress leader said: “The videoshows the exchange of demonetised notes with the new ones in a governmentgodown in Maharashtra,” Sibal said. However, did not authenticate thevideos and maintained that all the names mentioned in the clip were in thepublic domain and could be independently verified by the agencies, *HindustanTimes*link reported.
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“Demonetisation is the biggest scam in the history of India. Current notes(issued after the old Rs 500/100 notes were demonetised in November 2016)were printed abroad and transported into India and there can be nothingmore anti-national than this,” Sibal continued.
“Will this government arrest these people, will the ED [EnforcementDirectorate] arrest these people? Will the CBI arrest all the people whoare involved? They will not, because ED protects those who loot thecountry,” Sibal asked sternly.
