NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani and all others who escaped the Jain Hawala case are again in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) net following the Income-Tax Department reporting that they had amassed "black money."

Chief Vigilance Commissioner N Vittal has ordered the CBI to investigate. In an exclusive interview to Hindi daily Jansatta, he confirmed that: "I have received the list (from Income-Tax Department) and I have handed it over to the CBI Director for necessary action."

He also disclosed that he would be reviewing progress of investigations every month.

The daily's chief of bureau Ram Bahadur Rai said Vittal declined steadfast to give the list for publication as he had done by releasing the least of the corrupt officers on his internet website. The newspaper has, however, published what it claimed to be a part of the list of persons found having the "black money" which was in excess of their declared income.

The newspaper also claimed that the CBI plans to register cases against those found to have more than Rs 10 lakhs of the "black money." This will, however, eliminate Advani and Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha whose "black money" record is quite low.

Among those listed with their black money in brackets, according to the daily, are Union Ministers like Advani (Rs one lakh), Sharad Yadav (Rs 25 lakhs), Yashwant Sinha (Rs 4 lakhs) as also the Congress leaders like Natwar Singh (Rs 1.10 crore), Arjun Singh (Rs 67 lakhs), Narayan Dutt Tiwari (Rs 25 lakhs), Buta Singh (Rs 15 crores) and R K Dhawan (Rs 8 lakhs).

Other names in the list include: Former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal (Rs 90 lakhs), his son Ranjit Singh (Rs 12 lakhs), his nephew Pradeep Singh (Rs 3.68 crores), Prakash Bhatia (Rs 50 lakhs), S krishna Kumar (Rs 5.50 crores), Kalpnath Rai (Rs 1.30 crores), Arif Mohd Khan (Rs 1.50 crores) and Babanrao Dhakne (Rs 8 lakhs).

The list also has the name of the hawala scandal's main culprit, industrialist S K Jain, who was found to have the "black money" of Rs 82 crores. Also listed, according to the daily, is former Gujarat Chief Secretary H K Khan with the "black money" totalling Rs 3.40 crores.

The Chief Vigilance Commissioner, who does not exhaust from vowing to fight corruption at all level, said he had not set any timelimit for the CBI to complete investigation into the IT list of the "black money" holders since "I did not feel it necessary in view of the fact that we meet every month to review progress of various investigations."

The Income-Tax Department usually lets off those not declaring their full income by levying a penalty on the undeclared part of the income which is called in general parlance "black money", but in the instant case the CVC desired it to be further investigated since it was not a simple income-tax evasion case but also a case of corruption.

It may be mentioned here that the CBI and other investigating agencies had inquired into the Hawala case at the instance of the directives of the Supreme Court, challanning 110 persons on the basis of the infamous Jain diaries in which industrialist S K Jain had maintained record of money paid to various politicians and officers for all kinds of favours.

Those everyone escaped scotfree, new evidences have come up against many of them following the Income-Tax Department's investigtions and as such the CVC wants the CBI to examine the whole case afresh. END.