Pak tax body issues notice to PM’s family

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan tax authority on Sunday issued notices to at least 450 people, including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family members, whose names surfaced in

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan tax authority on Sunday issued notices to at least 450 people, including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family members, whose names surfaced in the Panama Papers leak for owning offshore companies.

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The notices were issued by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on a day when Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf party organised a huge rally in Lahore to protest Sharif government’s corruption and failure of state bodies to proceed against his family after Panama leaks.

Khan warned FBR and anticorruption watchdog National Accountability Bureau against failure to take action against Sharif.

The FBR said its Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation had issued the notices to obtain official versions of the people under scrutiny.

“The exercise will help to verify the authenticity of the reports that have been surfacing in the media for the past five months,” a statement from FBR said.

The Panama Papers surfaced in April following a massive leak of documents of Panama-based Mossack Fonseca company which reportedly deals with the offshore companies of world’s rich individuals.

Sharif’s two sons and a daughter were mentioned as having offshore companies which operated their properties abroad and the FBR had issued notices to them.