Pak n-scientist's kin linked to offshore firm in Panama Papers

May 14, 2016 12:45

Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan's family has been caught in the Panama Papers row as the documents name his four close relatives as owners of an offshore company in the Bahamas.

Khan's brother Abdul Quyuim Khan, wife Hendrina, and two daughters Dina Khan and Ayesha Khan, are all shown as owners of Wahdat Ltd, a company registered in the Bahamas, the Dawn reported today. Although the names are not part of the data released online by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Wahdat Ltd does appear on the website.

However, it has been named in the larger database obtained by the group. The company was registered in January of 1998, months before the nuclear tests of May that year, and deregistered on December 31, 1999, shortly after the October 12 coup.

"I have never even heard the name of this company," the paper quoted Khan as saying. "Neither did my wife and daughters. My brother, who died a few years ago, was with Habib Bank and, as you know, bankers are always up to their tricks and hanky panky," he said, without mincing words.

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