Ministerial Committee to Probe Broadsheet CEO’s Claims: Shibli Faraz
Information Minister Shibli Faraz. Courtesy PID
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The federal cabinet on Tuesday formed a ministerial committee to identify and “expose” individuals involved in money-laundering as alleged by a U.K.-based assets recovery firm earlier this week, according to Information Minister Shibli Faraz.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, he claimed that the allegations voiced by Broadsheet LLC’s CEO Kaveh Moussavi had validated Prime Minister Imran Khan’s longstanding claims of previous “corrupt” rulers looting the country. In an interview with a U.K.-based journalist, Moussavi alleged that a member of the Sharif family had offered him a bribe to drop the probe against them. Faraz claimed that that the government hoped to share the ministerial committee
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Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz along with Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur addressing a press conference in Islamabad on December 11, 2020. PHOTO: PID
ISLAMABAD:
Amid Broadsheet LLC owner Kaveh Moussavi’s startling allegations that the Sharif family had offered him a sum of money to drop the probe against them, the federal cabinet on Tuesday constituted an inter-ministerial committee to look into the matter.
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz in his post-cabinet news briefing said that the cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, formed the committee to further dissect the matter by minutely probing the case and share the findings with public soon.