NEW DELHI: Nine days after stating that he would hold a meeting with India’s finance minister, Britain’s Cairn Energy Chief Executive Simon Thomson on Thursday met top officials of the ministry, including Finance Secretary AB Pandey and CBDT Chairman P C Mody.
The meeting holds big significance as Cairn is said to have filed cases in the US, the UK and the Netherlands courts to recover $1.4 billion in a tax dispute it won against India in an international arbitration tribunal.
