Panama Papers probe: Microsoft font Calibri might nail Nawaz Sharif, family in graft charges. This is how
The documents of the year 2006 submitted by Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Sharif have been found typed in the Calibri font, which had not been widely released until January 2007.
In Short
- Microsoft font Calibri has been used in documents submitted in 2006.
- The font was widely released only after January 2007.
- Nawaz Sharif's daughter tweeted a Quora thread in defence that read that the font was available in 2006.
The Microsoft font Calibri has now become the key piece of evidence in the investigation of Panamagate graft charges against Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The documents of the year 2006, handed over by the Prime Minister Sharif's daughter, Maryam Nawaz Sharif were typed in the Calibri font, when the font was not widely available.
The Calibri font was not widely released until 2007- this points at an anomaly in the documents that make a case of forgery.
The lab that examined the documents noticed the discrepancy since, "Calibri was not commercially available before January 31 2007... neither of the originals of the certified declarations are correctly dated and happy [sic] (have been) to have been created at some later point in time."
The company that created the font said that Calibri was delivered to Microsoft in finished form in 2004 and that the first public betas to include it were released in 2006. However Maryam Sharif rejected the report and tweeted a Quora page that said that Calibri was available in Windows beta as early as 2004.
SHARIF'S KIDS IN LOOP
The investigation goes back to the 2016 Panama Papers leak, which revealed details of people using a law firm to handle offshore accounts.
Children of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have been named among those who siphoned their money off and to have made purchases that the Sharif family failed to publicly declare.
Pakistan Supreme Court has formed a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to look into the case and its new findings.
Investigators believe that the Nawaz family had more assets than they declared and forged documents to hide it.
There are now calls for the Prime Minister to resign, though it appears that he intends to see the court case through. "Every contradiction will not only be contested but decimated in [the Supreme Court]," his daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif tweeted.
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