Microsoft's Default Font Is at the Center Of a Government Corruption Case (thenextweb.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:10AM from the great-deduction dept.

Calibri, a font that was created in 2004 and made default option on PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad by Microsoft in 2007, is currently sitting at the center of a corruption investigation involving Pakistan's Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. From a report: Accused of illegally profiting from his position since the 1990s, Sharif is now under investigation by the Joint Investigative Team -- a collective of Pakistani police, military, and financial regulators -- after a treasure trove of evidence surfaced with 2016's release of The Panama Papers. In a report obtained by Al Jazeera, investigators recommended a case be filed in the National Accountability Court after concluding there were "significant gap[s]" in Sharif's ability to account for his familial assets. [...] Sharif contends that neither he, nor his family, profited from his position of power, a denial that came under scrutiny today after his daughter and political heir apparent, Maryam Nawaz, produced documents from 2006 that prove her father's innocence. Unfortunately for the Nawaz family, type experts today confirmed the documents were written in Calibri, a font that wasn't available until 2007.

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And his poor brother San Sharif... by dyfet · 2017-07-11 06:14 · Score: 5, Funny

I could not resist...
1. Re:And his poor brother San Sharif... by unixisc · 2017-07-11 06:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And his humorous cousin Comic Sans Sharif
Sharif don't like it by scourfish · 2017-07-11 06:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Rock the bad font
Rock the bad font
Re:Reminds me of Dan Rather & CBS! by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2017-07-11 06:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Karl Rove is a genius; supplying fake documents of real facts to discredit the truth. Brilliant!!