Record of $1.5mln payment to Broadsheet Company revealed missing

ISLAMABAD (92 News) – The inquiry report of the Broadsheet scandal has been received in the Prime Minister’s (PM) House, in which, it has been revealed that the record of $1.5 million payment made to the Broadsheet Company is missing.

The report said the payment related files have been stolen from the Ministries of Finance and the Law along with the attorney general’s office while the concerned portion is also missing from the file of the High Commission of Pakistan in London. The wrong payment cannot be considered as negligence, the report stressed.

The federal government appointed Justice (retired) Azmat Saeed Shaikh to head the inquiry committee after the revelations made by the Broadsheet LLC chief Kaveh Mousavi.

UK-based asset recovery firm Broadsheet LLC had been hired in 2000 by General Pervez Musharraf’s government to help recover assets stashed by past Pakistani rulers abroad.

Sources further said that the inquiry report was received by Joint Secretary Zahid Maqsood. The report consists of 500 pages. Overall the committee recorded statements of 26 witnesses in the scandal.

It is to be noted that Justice (retired) Azmat Saeed Shaikh has refused to take a salary and other perks and privileges offered by the government for heading the commission.