The Hawala Agent

Digyen Burmah is a forensic auditor and corporate spy. An old friend needs his help in finding his wife and co-worker, who mysteriously vanished during an official tour. Apparently, the company is also frantically trying to find his elusive wife. Burmah investigates the company and unearths shady deals in tax havens, transactions with hawala agents, cash payments to influence Indian elections and many more shocking details. Did his friend’s wife know too much? Or was she a conduit in the hawala channel used to transport money across borders? Whose money is it? What agenda is the company pursuing in the garb of developing software? Based on true stories from income tax raids, The Hawala Agent brings to fore how hawala is used to launder money and finance extremism. Digyen Burmah is a forensic auditor and corporate spy. An old friend needs his help in finding his wife and co-worker, who mysteriously vanished during an official tour. Apparently, the company is also frantically trying to find his elusive wife. Burmah investigates the company and unearths shady deals in tax havens, transactions with hawala agents, cash payments to influence Indian elections and many more shocking details. Did his friend’s wife know too much? Or was she a conduit in the hawala channel used to transport money across borders? Whose money is it? What agenda is the company pursuing in the garb of developing software? Based on true stories from income tax raids, The Hawala Agent brings to fore how hawala is used to launder money and finance extremism.