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April 7, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Farouk Adam Khan and Sharifuddin Pirzada were on the payroll of Broadsheet LLC (Isle of Man) when they were respectively the prosecutor general (PG) of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the ambassador-at-large during the tenure of Pervez Musharraf, the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) headed by retired Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed has noted in its report submitted to the federal government.
Both the gentlemen are no longer alive. The report said that according to the statement of Douglas Tisdale a lawyer by profession and a witness for Broadsheet LLC (Isle of Man) before the arbitral tribunal Sharifuddin Pirzada who at that point in time (1999-2000) was the ambassador at large and held various other offices and advised the Pakistan government and NAB, was also on the payroll of Broadsheet (Isle of Man) and International Asset Recovery LLC.
Broadsheet ‘recycled’ NAB’s reports on Sharifs
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February 10, 2021
LONDON: The former director-general of the National Accountability Bureau’s Financial Crimes Investigations Wing told the London High Court that Matrix Researchers investigators, working for Broadsheet LLC, had recycled NAB’s own reports on Nawaz Sharif and presented to the NAB as new information without adding anything or tracing any assets of the former premier and his family members.
According to Talat Ghumman’s statement before Sir Anthony Evans in July 2015, the senior NAB official told the court Broadsheet didn’t have it’s own capacity to investigate and trace assets and it hired Matrix Research Limited to investigate Nawaz Sharif and his family members at a total cost of around £500,000 but the information gathered on the Sharif family didn’t impress the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigators who were looking for seriously actionable evidence of wrongdoing and illici