Black money comes mainly from India: Assange

At a stage where governments around the world have tried to hide away from the embarrassment
caused by WikiLeaks expose on black money, founder Julian Assange speaks
exclusively to Times Now ’s editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami on the Swiss bank data and Indian names features in the same.

Julian Assange, made a stunning disclosure, that
there could be Indian names in the data that WikiLeaks would publish.

In the course of the interview, Assange appealed to Indians to
absolutely not lose hope that the names of those with secret Swiss accounts will come out at one point in the future.

Hinting
that Wikileaks might work with specialized agencies before releasing the Swiss bank data he pulled up the Indian government for not being aggressive like Germany in going
after the list of Indian account holders.
In fact he said India should
be more aggressive because India seems like it is losing per capita more tax money than Germany .
This is the first time Assange has spoken about Indian accounts in these Swiss banks, and comes at a time when the
national debate over Swiss Bank accounts has sharpened.
Arnab Goswami: You have strong views on it. And I completely appreciate that you can ’t talk
about it in detail.
But let me ask you more generically,
that is your heart,
you would like to reveal the details...in your heart. I am not asking you when and under what
circumstances, but
having known about it, you would like to reveal details of how the system
operates, wouldn’t you?

Julian Assange: Well, we have various types of information about
different banking
operations in the
world. Over time,
we have revealed
those. In fact,
most of the legal
attacks on us
have been from
banks. Banks in
Scotland...banks in
Dubai...banks in
Iceland. We all
received legal
attacks from
these banks. And
we will continue
publishing data on
these banks as
soon as we are
able to do so.Arnab Goswami: Have you 
encountered any
Indian names? I
am not asking you
to tell me where,
which banks...


Julian Assange: Yes there are
Indian names in
the data we have
already published
or going to publish.
I can ’t remember
specifically
whether there are
Indian names in
the upcoming
publication. But I
have read Indian
names. Similarly, in
these private
Swiss banking
concerns, where
you need at least
a million
dollars...which is a
significant amount
of money...Not an
average Indian.
Arnab Goswami:
And it is difficult to
identify those
names. Anything
else you can tell
us?
Julian Assange: I
can’t tell you
anything more at
this stage. As we
go through the
process of
releasing data, as
always we have to
do extra research.
And once we
understand which
media
organizations are
best placed to help
us with that
research, then we
operate with
them. But we are
not at that stage
yet that I know all
the research that
is going on.