Pandora Papers: Pandora Paper Pakistan Politician Names and others names will also in this Pandora Papers. Pandora Papers Pakistan. The world is ready to dive into Pandora’s offshore finance can as a new study by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) into international financial and tax havens opens to the public at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday.
The ICIJ’s major investigation, titled The Pandora Papers, is believed to be the result of 600 journalists in 117 countries who spent months studying around 11.9 million documents leaked from the offshore environment. The countdown has started as the names of several Pakistanis are said to be in the Pandora Papers.
Late on Saturday, the ICIJ announced that it would publish the “most extensive exposé on financial secrecy to date”. In 2016, the ICIJ published the Panama Papers that took the world by storm and eventually led to the overthrow of governments, including that of Nawaz Sharif.
Journalist Umar Cheema, who was part of the ICIJ’s team investigating the Pandora Papers, told a private news channel that the names of several Pakistanis were on the Pandora Papers, adding that people should wait for just another day as the report will officially be released on October 3 (today).
“The number of people named in [the Pandora Papers] is higher than in the Panama Papers,” said Cheema, adding, “The names are kind of interesting, but you have to wait 24 hours.” He said the ICIJ teams worked on the project for two years.
Cheema tweeted that the major international financial investigation was now closed and said it was the largest investigation yet. Political commentators were quick to add that it would be interesting to see how the government, judiciary and media react this time around.
The mega-research into the hidden secrets of the financial world aims to explain what some of the world’s richest have done to hide their wealth and evade taxes from states. The Panama Papers were a huge leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records that exposed a system enabling crime, corruption and misconduct hidden by clandestine offshore corporations.
The project called Pandora Papers refers to the character of Greek mythology, in whose box all the evils of humanity would be. Pandora Papers is expected to open yet another Pandora’s box that could lead to the demise of several world capitals and big names.
According to reports, the Pandora Papers are the result of the new massive financial record leak that reveals how the global elite of secret corporations are transferring money to tax havens. It is said the investigation will reveal tax evasion by hundreds of past and current world leaders, business people, celebrities, refugees and judges.