Captain Amarinder Singh siphoned off money from India, alleges AAP

CHANDIGARH: Pressure continued to mount on Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh over accounts allegedly held by his wife and son in a Swiss bank, with the Aam Aadmi Party joining the BJP in the attack on the former chief minister and releasing details of certain purported transactions.



A Ludhiana court had on Saturday asked Singh’s son Raninder to appear before it on July 26, after income-tax authorities filed a case against him for allegedly producing false accounts and documents, and lying under the oath over his links with some companies. Singh termed the allegation baseless and vowed to approach higher courts seeking quashing of the complaint.

“We cannot take it lying down and won’t allow ourselves to be blackmailed and we will call their bluff,” he said. Addressing a press conference on Monday, AAP leader Ashish Khetan said, in 2005, when Singh was Punjab’s chief minister, his son created a web of at least seven offshore companies, all registered in the British Virgin Islands, to siphon off crores of rupees from India.

Two prime properties were purchased by Raninder's companies in London and Dubai when Singh was the chief minister, he alleged. Khetan said the documents procured by AAP clearly indicated that Singh’s son and wife, Preneet Kaur, opened bank accounts in Switzerland to transfer large sums of money.

He also released details of certain bank accounts. Singh said the purported accounts showed “zero” balance. “How can it be possible to have an account that too in a Swiss bank without any balance,” he asked.