14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft’s famous font Calibri is very close to helping investigators sold a corruption case in Pakistan due to a minor detail that appears to incriminate the country’s Prime Minister.
Specifically, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, is accused of several wrongdoings, including using his position to obtain a number of assets and additional means of income.
The Joint Investigative Team, which is a special group of investigators put together by the country’s authorities, claim that Sarif illegally profited from his position since the 1990s, as TNW writes, revealing that the Prime Minister could not justify a number of assets and provide documents and evidence on how be obtained them.
Calibri was originally designed in 2004
To help prove he’s not guilty, daughter Maryam Nawaz provided a series of documents which she claims were created in 2006 and which reveal the source of some of the said assets.
After a thorough inspection of these documents, investigators discovered that all papers were created with Calibri, Microsoft’s already-famous font that’s the default option in the Office productivity suite. But while the daughter claims the documents are dated 2006, the font was actually released by Microsoft in 2007 as part of the Office suite.
As a result, not only that the Nawaz family can’t justify some assets and means of income, but it’s now accused of forgery as well, after trying to lie the investigators by providing false documents.
Calibri was designed in 2004 by Lucas de Groot, but it only became publicly available in 2007 in Microsoft Office 2007, replacing Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and Arial in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
Calibri continues to be the default font in Microsoft’s Office suite today, while also being offered in other products as well, including Google Docs, which made it available in September 2010.