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Journalist behind Panama papers amused by Calibri saga
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Posted on July 13, 2017
Frederik Obermaier, one of the two German reporters who initially received the leak and then with the collaboration of at least 300 reporters from six continents made the revelations called by many as “the biggest leak in the history of data journalism”.
Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier, paid tribute to “John Doe”, their anonymous source. He – or she – provided internal files and emails from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which specializes in setting up opaque offshore companies.
Obermaier, on his official Twitter profile, wrote that his favourtie part was when the “forgery” by Maryam Nawaz Sharif was busted the Panamagate JIT due to the use of Calibri font.
My favorite part of the JIT-PanamaPapers-report: When forgery @MaryamNSharif gets busted due to chosen font #Calibri
THE CALIBRI SAGA
The Panama JIT revealed that the probing team had sent the documents submitted by Maryam to it and the apex court to the Radley Forensic Document Laboratory in London for forensic examination.
An expert of the laboratory stated that, “he identified the type font used to produce both certified declaration as ‘Calibri’.
However, the expert said, Calibri was not commercially available before 31st January 2007 and as such, neither of the originals of the certified declarations is correctly dated and happy to have been created at some later point in time,”.
Maryam Nawaz has denied any wrongdoing. But that, of course, didn’t stop Pakistanis on social media from going on the offensive and here is how they did it.
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