He has tried to paint his attempt to grab a RM100 million property as a noble rejection. In fact, it was a humiliating climbdown only after his gambit had been found out days before the crucial Malacca election. So, has UMNO invested in damaged goods by promoting Najib back to their helm? ……
It was a victory, but what the latest judgement from the British High Court has told Malaysia is that far from settling the 1MDB’s $6 billion claim against IPIC the present government and its lawyers are still battling Abu Dhabi over a year after the PN government opted to ‘negotiate’ the case. It also warns that time is now running out for Malaysia owing to the fruitless delays …..
It’s not on the scale of Malaysian political corruption, but the UK public are rightly concerned the Conservative Party is on a slippery slope as the ‘Cash For Honours’ row engulfs the government. Based on links to 1MDB Sarawak Report asks how one former party vice-treasurer was ennobled at the tender age of 38 after an apparent donation of just £125,000 and questions whether foreign money flowed behind the scenes?……
Malaysia’s current leaders, who are wedded to a convicted criminal and several others facing corruption charges, have created an alternative reality to reassure their followers. The rest of the world is looking with growing amazement and concern at the ‘Truth Bubble’ that has enveloped a supposedly democratic nation ……
Yet another perverse decision by the Agong has been made to ditch the State of Emergency he called earlier, to facilitate a snap election in Sarawak to avoid young voters. This despite rising deaths and before booster jabs can be rolled out. So what do Sarawakian lives matter to Governor Taib and this regime who want to keep hold of power and stolen riches? They just gave everyone their answer……
The convicted former prime minister of Malaysia has taken Big Lie Theory to ludicrous new lows as he seeks to swap prison for the job of UMNO president once more. For his country and it floundering economy it represents a devastating humiliation that should not be permitted by any responsible government…..
A key door has now slammed shut on the tenacious legal strategy on the part of PetroSaudi’s Tarek Obaid to hang on to hundreds of millions stolen from 1MDB. That legal battle has cost a considerable chunk of the stolen money, however Obaid looks unlikely now to see any of it in his own bank accounts as he faces simultaneous criminal charges over his actions …….
If anyone still had doubts as to whether the GPS state government cares less about saving people from Covid than retaining office then the manoeuvring of the past few days will have removed them. Thankfully, the blatant shamelessness of the self-serving heartlessness of this State Government has finally provoked some royal figures to successfully demand an end to attempts to foist a snap election on the battered people of Sarawak …..
The UK claims to protect freedom of speech to enable journalists to do their job in the public interest. It also supports indulgent defamation, privacy and copyright laws. These and the enormous charges of London based law firms have attracted the global rich and powerful to hire UK ‘Reputation Lawyers’ – now elbowing each other for the business in the British courts. Sarawak Report has been a frequent target …..
Football glory has become one of the most sought after forms of reputation laundering by the super-wealthy with image problems. Russian oligarchs, US corporate raiders and now Arab dictators with human rights issues have been crowding to buy up UK clubs as they attempt to re-brand. Sarawak Report’s examination of Malaysian corruption has led it to the Middle East and also to the potentially cancerous extension of such dirty money into the heart of UK decision making….
INTERPOL have responded swiftly to the letter from fourteen civil society organisations requesting information about the Malaysian Arrest Warrant against the editor of Sarawak Report…..
For over two years Sarawak Report has kept silent on the civil action being pressed against its editor by the Sultanah of Terengganu, out of respect for her right to complain and for the due process of the courts. However, given the latest attempts to intimidate and even arrest the author on criminal charges we feel forced to speak out about the abuses in this case…..
The MACC currency checked each note of the $6million they confiscated back in 2018 and then held it under their own custody despite a police report from Hasanah who explained the money was not hers. Now they only have fraudulent forged notes to hand back to the public purse…….
The timber-raiding Yaw family of Samling may have met with frustration over their plans to trash protected forest in Selangor this month, however who is helping the Penan so far to keep their bulldozers out of their Baram Peace Park, designated as a protected area only last year by the Malaysian government and ITTO?…..
Sadly, the window-dressing about ‘reforms’ under the so-called Memorandum of Understanding on Transformation and Political Stability distracts from what this budget deal is really all about ………
