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Mar 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Several wealthy Pakistanis stashed as much as $200 million in secret Credit Suisse accounts while they were under scrutiny from tax officials or corruption investigators. #SuisseSecrets
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In 2000, Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) launched an anti-corruption drive that targeted 200 military officers, politicians, and business people.

10 ppl from that list had Credit Suisse accounts.
One of the Pakistanis in the leak is former Lt. Gen. Zahid Ali Akbar Khan, who pleaded guilty in 2015 to having unexplained assets & paid a $2M fine.

But what NAB didn't know — until now — is that he had 15.5m Swiss francs in his Credit Suisse account. cdn.occrp.org/projects/suiss…
The elites in this investigation are just a fraction of those in the Suisse Secrets leak.

See who else is in the data:
cdn.occrp.org/projects/suiss…

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