Successive governments in Pakistan have misused the legitimate anti-corruption instruments like Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the various other accountability bureaus set up from time to time for selective campaigns…
Tracing the trail of tainted money from origin to final destination has become an extremely complex proposition because most of the black money normally is camouflaged in more than two…
The UK government has issued Circular 3/2018, titled 'Unexplained Wealth Orders' [UWO}. This circular is essentially a part of the implementation/extension of the process of 'Proceed of Crimes Act, 2002…
The growing global interaction of world economies has increased economic activity. This interaction has also given new opportunities for creation of black money through various crimes and ways to whiten…
Far out into the Indian Ocean where it is forced to be self-reliant, the island nation of Mauritius is weaning itself off fossil fuels by turning to its main cash-crop…
In the first article on this subject, carried by this newspaper on December 5, 2018, general definition and process of money laundering was described with reference to Pakistan's, India's, Britain's…
The new coalition government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) seems determined to break the socio-economic and political status quo that has kept Pakistan entrapped in a…
What can we expect from a ‘forensic audit’ and how much exactly does Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have to worry about? We have known for a very long time how…
The 'export package', in the works for months, finally got unwrapped last week. For the PM it was an occasion to remind the doubting Thomases of the economic turn-around. He…
The members of 'House of Sharifs', who are facing allegations of tax avoidance, flight of capital, money laundering and corruption in the wake of the Panama Papers, claim "we have…
