Kaveh Moussavi, chief executive officer (CEO) of asset recovery firm Broadsheet LLC has claimed that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had offered his firm bribe to stop probe against the latter’s offshore assets.

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In an interview to a webnews TV, he said the Broadsheet had completed refused the deal offered by a person claiming himself as nephew of Sharif in 2012. Moussavi added that his firm did not negotiate with the “crooks”.

Sharif family has assets not only in the United Kingdom (UK) but across the world, he said adding that the Sharif family had a lot of explaining to do regarding their resources of amassing these assets.
Former president Pakistan General (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s successors started hampering the accountability process by not giving the access to information and termination of Broadsheet’s contract, said Moussavi.

Responding to a question, he rebuffed the Nawaz’s claim that Broadsheet had given clean chit to his family in corruption cases.

“In fact Broadsheet did the complete opposite… it is a complete lie that Broadsheet exonerated Sharif family,” he added.
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Broadsheet did not pursue Avenfield apartments’ case as a Pakistani accountability court had already ruled that the apartments were bought by the Sharif family from the “ill-gotten” money, said the firm’s CEO.

However, if asked by the Pakistani government he said his firm was ready to probe the sources through which Sharif family purchased the London apartments.

Nawaz Sharif was behind termination of contract with Broadsheet which was investigating how hundreds of millions of dollar had been stolen from Pakistan and stashed abroad, Moussavi said.

He said Gen Musharraf tasked Broadsheet to trace the assets of 200 people. But, after his tenure NAB started asking to remove names of certain people from the list. This was the hypocrisy of then government of Pakistan, he said.

Based in the Isle of Man, the Broadsheet LLC was hired by NAB during Musharraf’s regime to trace hidden assets of 200 Pakistanis, including former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and former president Asif Zardari in foreign countries. NAB terminated its agreement with Broadsheet in 2003.

Last month, a high court in the UK ordered debiting Rs4.5 billion from the accounts of the Pakistani High Commission in London over non-payment of a penalty by the NAB to the foreign asset recovery firm Broadsheet LLC.

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