ISLAMABAD: New startling revelations have surfaced about the illegal assets of Pakistanis abroad.
FBR chairman Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan said 200 people owning assets outside Pakistan have been issued notices. At this, Justice Ijazul Ahsan, a member of the bench, asked him to submit a list containing their names and copies of notices issued to them in court on next hearing.
This disclosure was made in a report submitted to a bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, in a fake accounts case.
A chartered accountancy firm, m/S A.F. Ferguson, submitted the report, revealing that Pakistanis have $150 billion of assets and properties in the UAE. State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Tariq Bajwa told the judges that the terms of reference for a probe against the Pakistani nationals having bank accounts and properties abroad have been worked out and submitted to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
