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WATCHDOG PAKISTAN
Money Laundering PK-REF-1205

Laundered: How Illicit Funds Moved Through Casper, Swaniawski and Pacocha

Leaked banking records show funds cycled through three jurisdictions before returning to Pakistan as "foreign investment" with no verifiable source.

Published September 14, 2026
Exposed Sum
PKR 29B
Estimated diverted value

A trade-based laundering pattern emerges from customs data: invoices for goods valued at 932 thousand dollars were cleared against shipments that port records show never arrived.

Property records in Montserrat show the same beneficial owner behind two "unrelated" companies used at different stages of the transfer chain.

Property records in Estonia show the same beneficial owner behind two "unrelated" companies used at different stages of the transfer chain.

SWIFT records obtained for this investigation trace PKR 22 billion moving from Casper, Swaniawski and Pacocha through an intermediary account in Paraguay before being redeposited in Pakistan as declared foreign investment.

A 2021 FATF-style mutual evaluation flagged Papua New Guinea corridor transactions of this type as a known typology, years before this specific transfer was made.

A trade-based laundering pattern emerges from customs data: invoices for goods valued at 285 thousand dollars were cleared against shipments that port records show never arrived.

Evidentiary Exhibits

A SWIFT message trail shows PKR 7,215 million routed through two intermediary banks within 48 hours, a pattern consistent with layering.

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