According to multiple media reports, the secret wealth and transactions of world leaders, politicians and billionaires were exposed in the leak of the pandora's documents, the largest financial document.
The Pandora File data was obtained by the Washington, D.C., International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, made up of more than 600 journalists from 117 countries, after studying the hidden wealth of the world's most powerful people. Nearly 12 million documents and dossiers from 14 financial services companies in the British Virgin Islands, Panama, Belize, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and other countries have exposed the secret wealth and transactions of world leaders, politicians and billionaires.
Members of Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan's inner circle, including cabinet ministers and their families, secretly own companies and hold multimillion-dollar trusts, Pandora documents show.
More than 700 Pakistanis were added to the investigation list, including Finance Minister Shokat Tallinn, the Bahtiyar family of Minister of Industry and Production, Senator Faisal Voda, pml-q leader Chowdhury Munis Ellahi and others.
The documents do not show that Prime Minister Imran Khan himself owns offshore companies, but has published overseas transactions involving arif naqvi, the largest donor to his JeM party, as well as fraud allegations in the United States.
The investigation revealed that Finance Minister Tallinn and his family own four offshore companies set up for a Saudi-owned bank that the Tallinn family planned to invest in. The brother of Industry and Production Minister Bahtiar transferred a $1 million apartment in London's Chelsea area to his mother in 2018 through an offshore company. Former water minister Faisal Vawda set up an offshore company to invest in UK property.
The investigation also revealed several offshore assets involving Pakistan's military leader and his family. Among them, a luxury apartment in London was transferred by the son of a famous Indian film director to the wife of a Pakistani general.
Pakistan's information minister, Fawad Chowdhury, said details disclosed in the Pandora document exposed the overseas assets of corrupt elements and would further strengthen Prime Minister Imran Khan's position.
Imran Khan has previously stressed on Twitter that poor countries should be prevented from hiding their wealth in rich countries.
Dr Shahbaz Gill, the Prime Minister's Special Assistant for Political Communications, also said that if any member of the government is found to have hidden overseas assets, they themselves must be held accountable for the act.