There is nothing wrong in accumulating wealth but it is unethical and immoral when it is earned by illegal and criminal methods. When wealth is amassed by irregular, criminal and illegal methods of looting, embezzling, money laundering, tax evasion,
misappropriation of government funds belonging to the nation and impropriating tax payers’ money and laundering it into personal bank accounts in offshore company with deliberate intent to keep it secret from detection is a crime against the country and its people. The stolen money by these financial crooks and embezzlers belonged to the masses for their social welfare benefits to build hospitals, schools, universities, recreation grounds,
job creation and to alleviate abject poverty from the country but illegally channelling public funds into personal accounts in foreign banks and offshore companies to avoid detection is a heinous crime.
It is pure and simple ugly face of capitalism, corruption and unbridled greed of the few to profit themselves with billions of dollars and rupees at the expense of over 180 million poor people of Pakistan. Panama
Papers have conformed and certified beyond any shadow of doubt the super rich have violated every norm of decency, honesty, ethics and morality in accumulating wealth and laundering it to foreign shore to avoid detection.
They misused their power, status and political positions hoping that their money laundering will be safe in the global tax havens and financial sophistication and technicalities will protect them from exposure.
They have committed the greatest crime against the state and its people by stealing, cheating, deceiving and taking nation’s wealth to foreign countries in order to escape the rules and laws of the society in which they live and do business. In doing so, they committed the greatest cardinal sin and
biggest crime in depriving their people of good hospitals, good doctors, good medicine, good schools, good universities, job creation and building houses for the abject poor in the society.
