STEPPING up a concerted drive against tax evasion through
offshore routes the US Prosecutors yesterday named a few bank account
holders of HSBC Plc's branch in India. They named an NRI Ashvin Desai who
has been accused of hiding as much as USD 8.8 million in
2009 in the India operations of the UK-based banker, prosecutors reportedly
said.
It is reported that a federal grand jury indicted Desai on three
points of tax evasion. Desai is the latest of many clients of HSBC's India
operations to face such punitive charges.
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