LONDON: Chief executive officer (CEO) of asset recovery firm Broadsheet LLC, Kaveh Moussavi, has claimed that former premier Nawaz Sharif had offered his firm bribe to stop probe against the latter’s offshore assets.
“We flatly refused the deal offered by a person claiming himself as the nephew of Sharif in 2012,” Moussavi said, while talking to a web channel. Moussavi added that his firm did not negotiate with the “crooks”.
He further said that Sharif family has assets not only in the United Kingdom (UK) but across the world. “They had a lot of explaining to do regarding their resources of amassing these assets,” he added.
“Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s successors started hampering the accountability process by not giving access to information and termination of Broadsheet’s contract,” said Moussavi.
He also rebuffed the Nawaz’s claim that Broadsheet had given clean chit to his family in corruption cases. “In fact, Broadsheet did the complete opposite. It is a complete lie that Broadsheet exonerated Sharif family,” he remarked.
“Nawaz Sharif was behind the termination of contract with Broadsheet which was investigating how hundreds of millions of dollar had been stolen from Pakistan and stashed abroad,” Moussavi said.
He said Gen Musharraf tasked Broadsheet to trace the assets of 200 people. However, he said after his tenure NAB started asking to remove names of certain people from the list.
The Broadsheet LLC was hired by NAB during Musharraf’s regime to trace hidden assets of 200 Pakistanis, including former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and former president Asif Zardari in foreign countries. NAB terminated its agreement with Broadsheet in 2003.
