Government may look for the inquiry in money laundering allegations against HSBC

New Delhi:  Central Government is likely to conduct a thorough inquiry into allegations that multinational HSBC Bank was involved in money laundering. However it explains that there is nothing to do with Arvind Kejriwal’s allegations.
The probe agencies will look into reports that funds were being routed from Pakistan and a few Gulf countries to terror groups operating in India using banking networks.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Saturday said government has information that the terror groups operating in India and outside India were investing money in stock markets through various methods.
“We have information that they have been putting in money in stock exchanges and stock markets. We have received information in international fora. We are keeping a track of them. They are investing in stock exchanges in India and some neighbouring countries,” he told a press conference.
Early this week, addressing the Interpol General Assembly in Rome, Shinde had said stock markets have emerged as a new mode for terrorists to route their money into the country’s economy and leverage it to carry out their nefarious designs.
“It is a cliche to say that terror-funding is the lifeblood of terrorism. Credible intelligence suggests that terrorist outfits are investing in stock markets through spurious companies, setting up fictitious businesses and laundering money,” he said.
Sources said the information came following arrest of a few couriers who had confessed that money was being sent from Gulf countries through Western Union money transfer.