The tenth year of Panama Papers -- the pathbreaking global offshore investigation published by over 100 media outlets, including The Indian Express -- was the perfect occasion for Parliament to be briefed on the tax bounty.
The Panama Papers was published in April 2016 as a global collaboration led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) along with 100 media partners from five continents.
Mossack Fonseca was forced to shut down in 2018 after the leak of its 11.5 million internal records investigated by a global consortium that included The Indian Express in India.
The searches revealed that Rajendra Patil had invested in various companies in Dubai, Tanzania and the British Virgin Islands. He held bank accounts in Dubai and Tanzania, they showed.
In 2006-07, vital documents pertaining to the deal were seized from the premises of Rolls-Royce India Pvt Ltd during a raid by the Income-tax Department. But the accused persons, according to the CBI, caused the disappearance/ removal/ destruction of those documents to evade investigation.
Panama Papers: More than 11 million documents from the secret files of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm headquartered in tax haven Panama, were accessed by Munich-based newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung which collaborated with ICIJ and over 100 media organisations, including The Indian Express, to investigate its contents
Thousands of Mossack Fonseca (MF) documents reviewed by The Indian Express and subsequent enquiries reveal that the Sharif family mortgaged four of these properties to the Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA for a loan of GBP 7 million and the Bank of Scotland part financed the purchase of two other apartments.
NIA team reaches Malda to investigate gherao of judicial officers engaged in SIR
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NIA officials, led by DIG, arrived in Malda to investigate the harassment of seven judicial officers. They were accompanied by 60 Army jawans and NIA IG Sonia Singh also landed in Kolkata. The incident occurred when judicial officers were held hostage by protesting residents. The SC transferred the probe to NIA and the team visited the BDO office and Mothabari police station for evidence.
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