October 21, 2020 3:06 pm
The Panama Papers leak exposed how some of the world's richest people hide their money. German prosecutors are looking for those behind the law firm at the center of the tax haven scandal.
February 22, 2020 7:24 am
CBDT said “undisclosed foreign assets” of over Rs 1,000 crore had been detected during the searches. But officials said the amount would be several times that figure, and that the Bharat Hotels case was likely to become one of the biggest detection of the Panama Papers cases in India.
November 27, 2019 3:50 am
Being the fourth pillar of democracy, the media is “bestowed with extreme power, since it has the power to hold the other three pillars — the executive, legislature and the judiciary — accountable”, Mukherjee said.
September 13, 2020 9:55 am
The Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) was signed between India and Mauritius in 1982. Under this, any entity could apply for tax residency and pay zero capital gains tax. This became the principal reason why Mauritius emerged as a top channel for investments being routed into India.
February 05, 2019 1:30 pm
The Indian Express has learnt that around six weeks ago, individual Indian account holders received communications from the FTA that the Indian request for banking details meets the requirements specified in the DTA (double taxation agreement) signed by the two countries as well as of the 2012 Federal Act on International Administrative Assistance.
December 05, 2018 10:02 am
Federal prosecutors say the law firm Mossack Fonseca conspired to circumvent US laws to maintain the wealth of its clients and conceal tax dollars owed to the IRS.
November 30, 2018 6:24 pm
The large volume of material being examined meant the search was still going on, prosecutors said, adding that offices of board members were included in the search without giving further details.
November 29, 2018 8:16 pm
The prosecutors said they are looking at whether Deutsche Bank may have assisted clients to set up offshore companies in tax havens so that funds transferred to accounts at Deutsche Bank could skirt anti-money laundering safeguards.
October 30, 2018 4:55 pm
"In Panama Paper leak case, Madhya Pradesh chief minister has no role," Gandhi told a select group of journalists when asked about his comments during a rally in Jhabua district of poll-bound Madhya Pradesh on Monday.
August 13, 2018 9:33 pm
Chief Justice Nisar made the remarks during the hearing of a suo moto case regarding Rs 35 billion worth shady transactions from and to the account of Zardari Group, a business owned by the former president and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur.
July 29, 2017 10:43 am
The Pakistan Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office in its verdict on the Panama Papers scandal.
April 05, 2016 10:21 am
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
June 22, 2020 7:10 pm
April 04, 2016 10:15 am
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.