The Calibri font, which Microsoft has been using extensively since 2007. , Became decisive evidence in the investigation of the corruption scandal in Pakistan. The Prime Minister tried to prove his innocence with the help of papers dated 2006. Since the documents were created using Calibri, which was not yet used in 2006. , It became clear that they were fake.
Scandal in Pakistan.
The Calibri font, which is used by default in many Microsoft products, was at the center of a corruption scandal. The scandal erupted around the figure of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Nawaz Sharif), who allegedly extracted illicit profits from his tenure in office since the 1990s. At least, I testify to this with some documents of the so-called Panama archive, which became public in 2016.
The investigation into the case of Sharif is carried out by the Joint Investigative Group, which includes representatives of the police, military and financial community of Pakistan. According to the Pakistani publication Al Jazeera, the investigation saw "big gaps" in the report of Sharif on family incomes. This was enough to recommend the case for transfer to the court.
In response, the daughter and political heiress of the Prime Minister, Maryam Nawaz (Maryam Nawaz), provided the investigation with documents allegedly proving her father's innocence. The papers date back to 2006.. However, the experts found that the documents were created using Calibri, a font that Microsoft introduced only in 2007. Thus, the investigation concluded that Nawaz documents were created after the date specified in them. To numerous crimes of the Nawaz family, forgery can now be added, writes The Next Web.
Calibri font.
The Calibri font family was developed by designer Lucas de Groot in 2004. The font was first introduced to the public on January 30, 2007.. , Together with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. It became the default font in products such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and WordPad. Prior to this, Word used the default Times New Roman, and in PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad - Arial. Calibri remained the default font in Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 and 2016, also used by default in Office for Mac 2016.
Calibri is part of the collection of ClearType fonts introduced in Windows Vista. ClearType is a technology for smoothing text for better display on LCD monitors, patented by Microsoft. The technology is based on working with subpixels (one third of the pixel) and redistribution of brightness. According to the cross-patent agreement, the same method is used by Apple, from the Linux family the technology supports Ubuntu. ClearType distribution provided a long life for the Calibri font.
What is the "Panama archive".
"Panama archive" is a package of internal documents of the Maltese law firm Mossack Fonseca, transferred by an unknown person to the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung in 2015. The archive of about 2.6 TB contains about 11.5 million documents.
Paper shedding light on offshore deals compromises many well-known politicians, athletes and businessmen. Transactions date back to the early 1970s. Until 2016.
Since Sueddeutsche Zeitung did not have the resources to analyze the entire array of data, it applied to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ), which requested assistance from various publications. About 400 journalists from different countries took part in the study of the document. In April 2016. They published the results of the study.