Naqvi says Dubai property is "fully declared" and listed in "tax returns"

Reacting to the recent Dubai property leaks saga, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said that the property bought in his wife’s name was “fully declared and listed in tax returns”.

"It was also declared in returns submitted to the Election Commission as Caretaker CM of Punjab. The property was sold a year ago, and a new property was purchased recently with the proceeds," he clarified in a post on X.

A day earlier, a global investigative journalism project named, Dubai Unlocked, revealed the details of several Pakistani politicians, bureaucrats, military men, lawmakers, criminals, and money launders, who own properties in upscale areas of the Gulf country.

According to the report, almost 17,000 Pakistanis were named in the leaks and their combined value of properties was estimated at around $11 billion.

The leaked data provides a detailed overview of hundreds of thousands of properties in Dubai and information about their ownership or usage, largely from 2020 and 2022.

Pakistanis who are listed in the property leaks are President Asif Ali Zardari’s three children, Hussain Nawaz Sharif, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s wife, Sharjeel Memon and family members, Senator Faisal Vawda, Farah Gogi, Sher Afzal Marwat, four MNAs and six MPAs from the Sindh and Balochistan assemblies.

The list also included late military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf, former prime minister Shaukat Aziz and more than a dozen retired generals as well as a police chief, an ambassador and a scientist.