LAHORE: In response to the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) press release over an exclusive news report pertaining to alleged money laundering by PCB Chairman Najam Sethi — published in Pakistan Today — the publication stands by its report and will maintain the same, besides providing evidence, in the court of law.
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In a rebuttal to the news report, the PCB claimed that “an utterly false, frivolous, and malicious ‘fake news’ about initiation of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigations against its chairman Najam Sethi was published in a local tabloid [an apparent reference to Pakistan Today, one of the widely read and followed publications of the country] from which some news channels have picked up the ‘fake news’ and propagated it without verification.”
Denying the allegations, which were levelled by ex-cricketer Sarfraz Nawaz as well, the board said, “On behalf of its chairman, [the] PCB vehemently and unequivocally denies…[the] news item and [will] initiate defamation proceedings against all those who are involved in this ‘abominable vilification’ campaign.”
“This was first started by ex-cricketer Sarfraz Nawaz when he was denied certain unmerited favours by [the] PCB chairman, who sued him and obtained a gag order from the court against him,” the statement went on to claim.
Hinting legal proceeding regarding the matter, the PCB maintained that “now the same ‘fake news’ has surfaced from a different hostile quarter, compelling the PCB to instruct its legal advisor to serve legal notices to all the perpetrators of this ‘false’ news.”
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