Leaks and challenges—I
The selective criteria of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in listing countries with strategic deficiencies are the main hurdles in curtailing the movement of illegal flow of funds. The…
The selective criteria of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in listing countries with strategic deficiencies are the main hurdles in curtailing the movement of illegal flow of funds. The…
White collar crime investigations need special expertise to deal with different nature of financial crimes. However, our top institutions, such as National Accountability Bureau (NAB) that takes pride being autonomous,…
In The Panama Papers, the leaked data covered nearly 40 years, from the late 1970s throughout the end of 2015. It exposed a never-before-seen view inside the offshore world—providing a…
THE Pandora Papers have exposed the shadowy world of sleaze and ill-gotten wealth stashed away in offshore companies by the rich and powerful around the world. Among them are both current and…
On February 16, 2016, NAB set March 31, 2016 as new deadline to decide the fate of corruption investigations against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif,…
The Paradise Papers (a set of 13.4 million confidential electronic documents), released by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on November 5, 2017, is the largest leakage of data to…
A Parliamentary committee tasked with drawing up the terms of reference for a judicial inquiry into the Panama Papers leaks is deadlocked with an increasingly frustrated opposition threatening to take…
In 2016 when there was revelation of the 'Panama Papers' this writer wrote various articles for this newspaper to explain the concept of 'offshore companies' and assets held by Pakistani…
Paradise has lifted its veil and exposed many of its shrouded inhabitants. The new data leaks, dubbed as the Paradise Papers, have yet again exposed how the world’s rich and…
When it rains it pours. The Nooras are finding this out for themselves. Is their proverbial luck finally running out? What is unfolding is certainly extraordinary, something they have never…