ISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif offered a bribe to Broadsheet LLC to abandon the probe against his foreign assets, Broadsheet’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kaveh Moussavi said.
In an interview, he said that Broadsheet had flatly refused the deal offered by a person claiming himself as the nephew of Nawaz Sharif in the year 2012, retorting that the Broadsheet did not negotiate with crooks.
The Sharif family has assets not only in the United Kingdom but across the globe, he
said, adding that the Sharif family must present quite a lot of explanation regarding their resources for amassing these assets.
He said that the process of accountability had been continuing but after then-president General Pervez Musharraf left office, his successors started hampering the process by not allowing access to information and termination of Broadsheet’s contract.
Responding to a question, he severely criticised Nawaz for claiming that Broadsheet had exonerated the Sharifs. In fact, Broadsheet did the opposite, he said adding that it was a complete lie that Broadsheet exonerated Sharif family.
Broadsheet did not pursue Avenfield apartments source of buying as a Pakistani accountability court had already contended that the apartments were bought by the Sharifs from the stolen money.
However, Broadsheet was ready to investigate money sources of Avenfield apartments, if asked by the government of Pakistan, he said.
Nawaz was behind termination of contract with Broadsheet which was investigating how hundreds of millions of dollars had been stolen from Pakistan and stashed abroad, Moussavi said.
He said that General Musharraf tasked Broadsheet to detect the assets of 200 people but, after his tenure ended, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) started asking to remove names of certain people from the list.
However, that request was refused. This was the hypocrisy of then government of Pakistan, he said.
