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‘SwissLeaks’: Former Pakistan top spy’s name features in leaked list of Credit Suisse account holders

Kairi 3 years ago 2 min read

Pakistan’s former pinnacle spy, General Akhtar Abdur Rehman Khan’s call, has featured in a listing of high-profile Pakistanis with Swiss financial institution debts.

The listing changed into accessed via way of means of German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung as element of ‘SwissLeaks’ – a big leak from Credit Suisse, one of the world’s biggest personal banks. While the leaks cowl Swiss financial institution debts operational among the Nineteen Forties and 2010, it does now no longer cowl the modern operations of Credit Suisse.

The leak has reportedly found out data approximately six hundred Swiss financial institution debts connected to 1,four hundred Pakistani citizens.

Among the ones featured withinside the listing is General Akhtar Abdur Rehman Khan, the nearest aide of former Pakistani dictator Zia-ul-Haq. Both Khan and Haq died in a aircraft crash in 1988.

General Akhtar Abdur Rehman Khan helped funnel billions of greenbacks in coins and resource from the US and different countries, as in step with a document via way of means of the New York Times. This cash changed into then used to aid Afghan mujahideen of their combat in opposition to the Soviet Union.

The document additionally exhibits that an account changed into opened in Credit Suisse withinside the call of 3 of General Akhtar’s sons in 1985. “Years later, the account might develop to keep USD 3.7 million, the leaked facts show,” it says, including that the account changed into really well worth at the least 5 million Swiss francs (USD 3.7 million) via way of means of 2003.

‘Swiss Leaks’

Media retailers with get right of entry to to ‘Swiss Leaks’ records reportedly recognized 30,000 Credit Suisse customers throughout the world. Swiss financial institution debts withinside the names of those customers keep an expected 100bn Swiss francs.

“We can display how Credit Suisse time and again both opened or maintained financial institution debts for a wide ranging array of high-danger customers throughout the world,” The Guardian stated in a document.

The document is going directly to add, “The large trove of banking records changed into leaked via way of means of an nameless whistleblower to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.”