#PANDORAPAPERS: #PAKISTAN GENERALS USING OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS TO ENRICH THEMSELVES
(1) Now leaked documents reveal that key members of Imran #Khan’s inner circle, including cabinet ministers, their families and major financial backers have secretly owned an array of companies and trusts holding millions of dollars of hidden wealth.
(2) The #PandoraPapers reveal that in 2007, the wife of Gen Shafaat Ullah Shah, then one of Pakistan's leading generals and a former aide to President Pervez Musharraf, acquired a $1.2 million apartment in London through a discreet offshore transaction.
(3) In one of several offshore holdings involving military leaders and their families, a luxury London apartment was transferred from the son of a famous Indian movie director to the wife of a three-star general.
(4) The Pandora Papers also reveal that Raja Nadir Pervez, a retired army Lt Colonel and former government minister, owned International Finance & Equipment Ltd, a BVI-registered company.
(5) Another influential former military leader who shows up in the leaked documents is Maj Gen Nusrat Naeem, the ISI's onetime Director General of counterintelligence.
(6) He owned a BVI company, Afghan Oil & Gas Ltd, that was registered in 2009, shortly after his retirement. He said that the company had been set up by a friend and that he didn't use it for any financial transactions.

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