Broadsheet CEO Kaveh Moussavi has tendered an apology to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for allegations of corruption in a video interview with Geo News and accused the National Accountability of Bureau of “witch-hunt.”
The asset recovery firm Broadsheet was contracted by the Musharraf government in 1999 to investigate the alleged stolen money of political rivals – including PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif. The firm has claimed to have conducted a forensic investigation into the assets.
“We found a lot of plundered wealth but not one rupee relating to Nawaz Sharif or any member of his family. Not one rupee, I can categorically say that after virtually 21 years of investigations. If anybody tells you otherwise, they are lying to you,” Moussavi said.
He alleged that the national-graft buster had made cases against the former premier on political grounds and that was the “reason for his apology” to Nawaz.
“I have no hesitation in issuing an apology to Nawaz for having been a part of the scam, the scandalous non-sense masquerading as NAB. It’s a fraud through and through,” Moussavi said, “Nawaz was clearly was the victim of a witch-hunt.”
However, he added: “When facts change, I change my views.” The Broadsheet CEO alleged that the investigation was sabotaged because the intention was something else and the intention of the probe, as asked by Musharraf, was not to find any “looted” wealth.
Moussavi’s recent claim comes in contraction to his previous accusations of having evidence of “corruption” against Nawaz Sharif. The Broadsheet CEO had also claimed that the Sharif family had approached him with a bribe, as the state-owned news agency Associated Press of Pakistan ran a headline based on the lawyer’s claim in a video interview.
The Sharif family denied the allegations and the UK based asset recovery firm had 20,000 pounds in legal costs to them. It had also withdrawn its claim over the Sharif family’s Avenfield property in London.
Broadsheet LLC was engaged by NAB in 2000 to trace offshore assets of Pakistani nationals but the agreement was cancelled in 2003. The government in 2020 paid about $29 million to the firm in damages.
