Controversy over Broadsheet scandal echoes in Senate Dawn 19/01/2021 none@none.com (Iftikhar A. Khan)
ISLAMABAD: The controversy over UK-based asset recovery firm Broadsheet LLC echoed in the Senate on Monday, with Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar chiding the PPP for making $1.5 million payment to a wrong company and the PML-N for keeping the August 2016 decision of the award in the Broadsheet case a secret.
Speaking in the Senate, Mr Akbar said the reason for the secrecy was obvious as Broadsheet had been paid $20.5m for the information the company had gathered about the Sharif family’s ill-gotten assets, including the Avenfield property.
Untold story of NAB unfolded by Broadsheet
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January 8, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Before the arbitration judge handed verdict in favor of Broadsheet LLC in a damage suit, the assets recovery firm laid bare one by one anti-corruption claims of the National Accountability Bureau during the course of cross-examination and through specific instances.
The details it shared persuaded the judge that the information provided in the cases of Aftab Sherpao, Admiral Mansur-ul-Haq and Schon group was misused for political and personal gains.
Sir Anthony Evans, the judge engaged by Chartered Institute of Arbitrator in London for arbitration, also found the allegation totally unfounded that Nawaz Sharif and Saifur Rehman laundered $500million after accounts were frozen following the nuclear tests in 1999. The NAB revealed it didn’t investigate Ishaq Dar back then because he assisted against Sharifs.