A cache of leaked documents has named around 150 more Pakistanis linked with offshore companies in the Bahamas, a constellation of over 700 islands, located 12,900 kilometers away from Pakistan.
German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung obtained the Bahamas data from a whistleblower and shared it with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its media partners.
The investigative report, the world's second-largest financial scandal since the Panama leaks, reveals details of hundreds of secret
offshore accounts of people from across the world.
Out of 175,000
companies incorporated in
Bahamas between 1959 and 2016, around 150
Pakistanis have been identified as directors of nearly 70 companies.
The
Bahamas is one of a handful of micro nations south of the United States, **tes ICIJ, **torious for its confidentiality laws and reluctance to share information with foreign governments.
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