Tax advisors to those named in Paradise Papers under I-T lens

India ranks 19th out of the 180 countries covered under the leaked data in terms of the number of names involved

Tax advisors servicing the 714 Indians named in the vast leak of financial records, dubbed the Paradise Papers, might find themselves in the tax sleuth's cross-hairs. 

The Economic Times reported on Tuesday that two unnamed sources who had knowledge of the matter said that tax advisors of Indians named in the list could be caught up in the income tax (I-T) department's net too. However, according to the report, Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia, who the paper said appeared to be "non-committal" on the issue, said that the authorities could not "disclose the processes which are initiated or which are going