{"id":5844,"date":"2007-03-09T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2007-03-09T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T19:07:00","slug":"8-billion-dollars-hasan-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/8-billion-dollars-hasan-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"8 billion dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"
Or rather, US$7.922 billion. That’s how much money a Punekar named Hasan Ali was allegedly worth until recently. CNN-IBN reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n The Income Tax department claims to have traced unaccounted wealth valued at Rs 35,000 crore to accounts operated by a Pune-based businessman Hasan Ali.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If true, and if that is the sum total of Mr Ali’s wealth, he would place No. 62 in the Forbes list<\/a> of the richest men in the world. What I find stunning is that with this kind of money, he didn’t simply buy himself immunity from the legal system by putting top politicians and bureaucrats in his pocket.<\/p>\n And on an entirely unrelated note<\/b>, is it only me who finds the following line, from the Wikipedia page<\/a> on the Sahara Group, somewhat amusing?<\/p>\n Sahara india parivar is the largest family in the world. [sic]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Such procreation must happen!<\/p>\n (CNN-IBN link via email from Gautam John<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or rather, US$7.922 billion. That’s how much money a Punekar named Hasan Ali was allegedly worth until recently. CNN-IBN reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n The Income Tax department claims to have traced unaccounted wealth valued at Rs 35,000 crore to accounts operated by a Pune-based businessman Hasan Ali.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If true, and if that is the sum total of Mr Ali’s wealth, he would place No. 62 in the Forbes list<\/a> of the richest men in the world. What I find stunning is that with this kind of money, he didn’t simply buy himself immunity from the legal system by putting top politicians and bureaucrats in his pocket.<\/p>\n And on an entirely unrelated note<\/b>, is it only me who finds the following line, from the Wikipedia page<\/a> on the Sahara Group, somewhat amusing?<\/p>\n Sahara india parivar is the largest family in the world. [sic]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Such procreation must happen!<\/p>\n\n
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