A cocktail of corruption
January 20, 2021
The papers released in the Broadsheet case by a court in London reveal a trail of wrongdoing as well as pressure to change political sides in exchange for money, and a total mishandling of many affairs. The beginning of the matter comes in the deal reached by NAB, then led by General Amjad, with Broadsheet LLC. During this period, an amount of $3.5 million apparently owned by Aftab Sherpao were discovered in a New Jersey account. Later it seems, NAB after General Amjad had left his charge as head of the organisation, stated that Sherpao’s name had been placed on the list of people to be investigated by mistake and that this investigation should never have taken place. Sherpao went on to create the Pakistan People’s Party Patriots and then stand as interior minister, in the Musharraf government.
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January 19, 2021
WASHINGTON: Attempting to break away from the two companies it had hired to investigate the Bhutto and Sharif families and many others, the National Accountability Bureau paid 1.5 million pounds and then again 1.5 million dollars under the settlement agreements; except that the latter amount was paid to a sham company and that too knowingly to cheat Broadsheet LLC.
The judgment from the ‘Broadsheet vs NAB’ arbitration case shows that the NAB made two payments under the Settlement Agreement, totaling 1.5 million dollars to accounts which appear to have been controlled by Jerry James, by then the unauthorized person who had incorporated another Colorado company which he had also named “Broadsheet LLC”. The actual company was Broadsheet LLC, an Isle of Man entity. The arbitration court did not find this as a simple mistake but declared it a deliberate move to financially defraud the original Broadsheet LLC.
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ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Athar Minallah on Friday admitted the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) petition for regular hearing against the recently enforced social media rules.
While the counsel for Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Ahmar Bilal Soofi received the court notice after the very first hearing inside the courtroom, the deputy attorney general informed the court that the attorney general Khalid Jawed Khan will argue the case on the next date of hearing.
Subsequently, further hearing in this matter has been adjourned till Dec 25.
The petitioner, PFUJ secretary general Nasir Zaidi, cited Ministry of Information Technology secretary and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman as respondents.
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