ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has constituted a five-member committee over the Broadsheet saga and ordered his team to present the entire case before the nation.
During the meeting, Imran Khan was given an in-depth briefing on the Broadsheet saga by Adviser on Accountability Shehzad Akbar. The committee would include Fawad Chaudhry, Shireen Mazari, Babar Awan and Shehzad Akbar.
PM Imran said that the matter should be put before the masses in detail and all facts in the case before the London court should be made public. He said that the Broadsheet was probing the 20-year-old illegal assets, adding that the accountability for the last 10 years is yet to be done.
Those who had transferred the looted money abroad from the country would not be spared, the prime minister vowed. Besides, Imran Khan appreciated the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for taking up the foreign funding issue and said that PTI was the first party that was established with the funds collected from the nation.
Broadsheet LLC, a UK company that was registered in Pervez Musharraf’s era, helped the then government and newly established National Accountability Bureau (NAB) track down foreign assets purchased by Pakistanis through alleged ill-gotten wealth.
Broadsheet CEO Kaveh Moussavi, in a YouTube interview, claimed that a Sharif family member approached him in 2012 and offered him a bribe to drop the investigations. Moussavi claimed that the company had flatly refused the deal, in the year 2012, retorting that the Broadsheet did not negotiate with crooks.
“Sharif family has assets not only in the United Kingdom but across the globe,” he said, adding that the Sharif family required plenty of explanation about their resources of amassing these assets.
He said the process of accountability was continuing, but after President Musharraf left office, his successors started hampering the process by not giving access to information and termination of Broadsheet’s contract.
The CEO said Nawaz was behind the termination of the contract with Broadsheet which was investigating how hundreds of millions of dollars had been stolen from Pakistan and stashed abroad.
