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5. Mr.Subramanian Swamy, former Union Cabinet Minister of Commerce, Law and Justice, and Chairman of the Action Committee Against Corruption in India, had, in an article titled "Black Money: pinning the shadow down", published in The Hindu on 08.06.2015, written thus:

"Recently, on the suggestion of the eminent lawyer, Ram Jethmalani, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court allowed me to lead arguments on the effective steps to be taken to bring back black money, or undisclosed illegally held funds, estimated at Rs.120 lakh crore, stashed secretly abroad http://www.judis.nic.in by Indians in numbered bank accounts. This amount is about 60 times the annual revenue from income tax in the Union Budget."