ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday embraced the USPresident-elect Joe Biden’s declared aim to target dirty money.

In a post on Twitter, the premier wrote, “I welcome US President-electBiden’s declared intent of a policy targeting dirty money.” The primeminister tweeted sharing a media report saying,

“Developing countries are being impoverished by their corrupt elites wholaunder money to richer countries and offshore tax havens.”

Joe Biden is expected to make a crackdown on illicit finance both at homein the United States, and abroad a centrepiece of his administration.

As per a reportlinkpublishedin US-based Foreign Policy magazine, US president-elect and his topadvisors have made the fight against dirty money as top priorities.

Joe Biden said “I will lead efforts internationally to bring transparencyto the global financial system, go after illicit tax havens, seize stolenassets, and make it more difficult for leaders who steal from their peopleto hide behind anonymous front companies,” Biden had said in his write-upin Foreign Affairs magazine.

Supporting the US president elect’s agenda; Khan reiterates that thedeveloping countries were being impoverished by their corrupt elites.