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Information Minister Shibli Faraz addresses a press conference on Tuesday. DawnNewsTV
The government on Tuesday announced the formation of a one-member commission, comprising former Supreme Court judge Azmat Saeed Sheikh, that will conduct an inquiry into the Broadsheet scandal.
The announcement made by Information Minister Shibli Faraz reflects a change in the original composition of the probe body notified by the government.
Last week, the federal cabinet had formed an inquiry committee to be headed by a former judge of the Supreme Court or high court with the task to investigate in 45 days the “fresh revelations” in the verdict of a British court in the case of UK-based asset recovery firm Broadsheet LLC and fix responsibility on those Pakistanis who, according to the firm, had illegally benefited themselves and laundered money to off-shore banks.
Dirty business
January 21, 2021
It was early November morning when Kaveh Moussavi met with three unidentified men in the Nikko Hotel lobby. The discussions centered on valuable procurement contracts. According to Moussavi, these men were government officials and were demanding $1 million for the award of the contracts.
No, this is not Broadsheet and the meeting had nothing to do with Pakistan. This was Mexico in 1992, when Moussavi was acting as an agent for IBM and working on a 6.5 percent commission to help procure valuable radar and air navigation equipment contracts tendered by the Mexican government. Moussavi later broke the story to the Financial Times of how dirty officials in Mexico were fixing government contracts for bribes.