Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday stated that folks who leaked the profits-tax information of the Army leader Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa were identified, maintaining that the probe might attain its “logical conclusion.”
In an interview to Geo News programme “Capital Talk”, Dar reiterated that leaking the Army leader’s profits-tax information turned into “unlawful.”
“I even have visible the period in-between document. I desire to acquire the very last document today,” Dar stated withinside the interview.
“One man or woman worried withinside the leak is from Lahore and some other from Rawalpindi,” he stated, including that it turned into being probed in the event that they had authority to get right of entry to the information.
The finance minister stated applicable officers of the tax branch have been permitted to get right of entry to records for his or her assessment, including that the probe might be taken to its logical conclusion.
“There is a opportunity that a number of the people worried might also additionally have the authorisation to have a take a observe the profits tax facts as there may be a (tax) circle in Rawalpindi in which exams take place,” Dar explained.
He stated that the probe turned into ordered as it turned into unlawful to reveal the tax information of all people, besides whilst a courtroom docket had issued an order for it.
“The regulation does now no longer permit the discharge of Army leader or all people else’s profits tax returns with out a courtroom docket order,” he noted.
Dar ordered a probe on Monday after tax information of Bajwa and his own circle of relatives participants, which includes that of his daughter-in-regulation’s own circle of relatives have been launched on line through the investigative internet site Fact Focus.
According to Fact Focus, Gen Bajwa’s own circle of relatives participants and family have become billionaires at some stage in his six-yr tenure, making belongings amounting to Rs 12.7 billion.
The Fact Focus internet site, which describes itself as a “Pakistan-primarily based totally virtual media information organization running on records-primarily based totally investigative information stories”, shared the alleged wealth statements of Gen Bajwa and his own circle of relatives from 2013 to 2021 on its page.
The document, launched days beforehand of Gen Bajwa’s scheduled retirement later this month, claimed that the belongings of Gen Bajwa’s wife, Ayesha Amjad, went from 0 in 2016 to Rs 2.2 billion (declared and known) in six years.
It said the quantity did now no longer encompass residential plots, industrial plots and homes given through the Army to her husband.
The document additionally alleged that the overall really well worth of the declared belongings of Mahnoor Sabir (Gen Bajwa’s daughter-in-regulation) jumped from 0 in ultimate week of October 2018 to Rs 1,271 million on November 2, 2018, even as the belongings of Mahnoor’s sister Hamna Naseer went from 0 in 2016 to “billions” through 2017.
Furthermore, the tax returns of Sabir Hameed — the Army leader’s son’s father-in-regulation — have been much less than 1,000,000 in 2013 but “withinside the coming years, he have become a billionaire”, the internet site claimed.
On Monday, Dar took word of the “unlawful and unwarranted” leakage of tax facts of Gen Bajwa’s own circle of relatives participants.
“This is genuinely a contravention of the whole confidentiality of tax facts that the regulation provides,” a assertion from the Finance Division read.