ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is examining the Paradise Leaks papers. The papers mention the names of 135 Pakistani nationals, including former prime minister Shaukat Aziz.
Sources told Customs Today that the Pakistanis, whose name appeared in the latest data dump of financial papers, will be issued a notice in the regard. The sources said that the list of names was extensive and all those Pakistani nationals named in the papers would be investigated.
It is necessary to mention here that the Paradise Papers is a database comprising around 13.4 million documents, which reveals over 25000 companies owned by the world’s rich and influential individuals.
The documents were obtained from two companies in Singapore and Bermuda by a German newspaper and shared with the ICIJ. A major part of the Panama Papers comprises leaked files from company ‘Appleby’.
The files reveal data of over 25,000 companies owned by individuals from 180 countries, from 1950 to 2016. Moe than one hundred politicians and public officials (14 current or former country leaders included) from more than 47 countries, the documents revealed.
It is one of the biggest leaks in the history of journalism instead of the biggest, and then one may also compare some of the different figures related to the data size between Paradise Papers and previous leaks.
