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A leak from one of the world's biggest private banks, Credit Suisse, exposed information of about 600 accounts, totalling billions of dollars, which are linked to at 1,400 Pakistani citizens, as per media reports cited by news agency ANI.
Accounts held by Pakistanis had an average maximum balance of 4.42 million Swiss francs, reported The News International newspaper.
Khan funnelled billions of dollars in cash and other aid from the United States (US) and other countries to the mujahideen in Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89), as per a report published in New York Times, according to ANI.
The Saudi Arabian and US funding was received in the American Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Swiss bank account, as per a report published by the Dawn newspaper, which cited an Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) report.
Quoting the OCCRP report, the Pakistani publication reported,
Dawn newspaper stated that several politicians didn't mention these accounts in the Swiss bank at the time when they were holders of public office.
(With inputs from ANI.)
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