7 Jun 2023, 19:20 Kuching
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The Beckenham MP, Bob Stewart, a frequent guest and parliamentary supporter of the Bahrain government, condemned by human rights groups, has been charged with abusive behaviour towards an activist who criticised those links. Is this another consequence of the influence of foreign money on UK politics and parliamentarians?.......
1MDB Plus involved $2 BILLION more of Malaysia's money to cover up the theft. Whilst the Malaysian authorities have tarried over action to get that money back, it seems that once again US investigators have got in ahead of the game, while the UN has cast opprobrium on Kuwait for its treatment of the whistleblower in this case.......
Almost daily a new 'blue sky vision' is promoted from the Sarawak 'Premier's' office, as greedy businessmen troop through with their latest money-spinning projects for turning Borneo's lifeblood into gold. 'Green', however, these plans are not. And, as ever, they present little care for the real needs of the increasingly impoverished and neglected indigenous people.......
Money Politics was once a phrase adopted by frustrated Malaysians sickened by graft, backhanders, bribery and all the rest. Now, ever more clearly, a British version of the problem has started to emerge and it often starts with donations of foreign money with a murky past.....
After years, even decades, hundreds of Sarawak Land Grab cases are still wending their way through the courts, long after the native lands in question have been plundered and destroyed. The glaring issue in these David and Goliath battles is that the concessions themselves were almost without exception the product of corrupt cronyism and nepotism under the rule of the former chief minister and current billionaire Governor of the state, Taib Mahmud..........
The mystery 'NGO', Advokasi Pribumi Sarawak (Sarawak Indigenous People's Advocate), has complained SR "discredited" it by suggesting it was a PR outfit for the logging giant Samling. Why at the same time has the PR company behind the outfit pulled its client portfolio off the web and changed its contact numbers?....
When it comes to ripping out forests, dodging environmental restrictions and heavy handed tactics towards indigenous protests, the global timber giant, Samling, leads the field. However, when it comes to the subtler arts of communication, specifically disinformation known as 'Black PR', the Sarawak loggers appear out of their depth.....
Jho Low's celebrity pal cum business partner had pleaded innocence over his role in laundering money looted 1MDB and the attempted corruption of the US government on behalf of Najib and then China. The jury decided otherwise....
Swiss prosecutors have moved to indict the managers of PetroSaudi, Tarek Obaid and Patrick Mahony, who for eight years have managed to spend 1MDB's stolen money and live unpunished for their role in aiding and abetting Najib and Jho Low in pulling off Malaysia's Heist of the Century....
Migrant rights campaigner Andy Hall has exposed numerous forced labour scandals in Malaysia. He says modern slavery has become endemic in the country owning to the corrupt abuse of regulations imposed on guest workers to the country, which land them in debt and beholden to their traffickers and employers. He has condemned the recent hand out of vast new quotas for extra workers without sufficient planning to ensure they are protected from the entrenched corrupt practices that need reform...
More toe curling details on how Malaysia's stolen money was employed in attempted bribes to influence successive Presidents of the United States have emerged from the New York trial of hip hop star Pras Michel.....
Detail from the Jho Low money laundering trial in Kuwait has provided new information about how China worked to assist Najib Razak at the highest levels to raise stolen money from projects in Malaysia in order to cover the thefts from 1MDB.....
It was Sarawak Report that first spotted the 1MDB linked donations into Democrat campaigns, alerting investigators in the United States. The present indictment against Pras Michel and Jho Low claims they funnelled $100 million in illegal cash to gain influence over President Obama and the US government. The rap star recruited his friends as "Straw Donors" to hide the the real source of the prohibited foreign money....
The Kuwaiti criminal court has now published its judgement against what it describes as an "organised criminal group" consisting of Jho Low; Sheikh Sabah, son of the former Kuwait prime minister; his lawyer, Saud Abdelmohsan; a former businesss partner, Bachar Kiwan and Jho Low's Kuwaiti friend, Hamad Al Wazzan who shared the proceeds of "funds seized from the Malaysian government" totalling in excess of a billion dollars. How much will Malaysia get back and what about the damages?.......
The son of Kuwait's former prime minister, Jho Low's college mate and Malaysia's own top fugitive, Jho Low himself, have all been found guilty of laundering hundreds of millions in stolen Malaysian money used by Najib to cover up 1MDB in a landmark ruling by the Gulf state.......
The UK media regulator OFCOM's rules preclude the awarding of broadcast TV licences to any entity that holds a party political or public policy agenda. But it appears that is exactly what has been allowed to happen after the recent takeover of GB News....
SR has received an anonymously written email, purporting to be from GT Plywood, angrily refuting that the activities in Baram described in our previous article were linked either to that company or to the wider group controlled by the KTS Lau family. So, will KTS give us a full interview about their actual operations? So far, no answer......
The pictures say it all and in this item we will use a lot of them to show Malaysians just what the greedy logging group behind GT Interhill are doing in Middle Baram as, once again, the desperate blockades put up by local people have been torn down by the bully interlopers with their heavy machines, thugs and tame police force.....
As the latest prosecution over 1MDB begins next week in the United States there is a glaring inequality over who has been punished and who has not......
Abu Dhabi's IPIC has eaten humble pie, having climbed down from demanding $6 billion it had claimed 1MDB owed and instead ponied up $1.8 billion in reparations to 1MDB over its criminal complicity in the heist from which senior figures in the Gulf state raked hundreds of millions of dollars. It is a stunning victory for Malaysia, but it was owed so much more.....
Back in 2020, the extraordinary circumstances surrounding Goldman Sachs' lightening resolution of its dispute with the Malaysian company 1MDB shortly after the coup led by Muhyiddin Yassin raised several eyebrows. Did the cut price settlement involve a violation of its recently concluded Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the US Dept of Justice? It is time to reveal exactly what happened .......
The whistleblower couple Xavier and Laura Justo lift the lid on their personal story after being targeted to cover up the scandal of 1MDB. Their book is online and will be available shortly in KL bookstores....
The latest Penan blockade against loggers in the Baram area, and the way it has been handled, highlights a host of injustices facing the native people of Malaysia which this new reforming government must start to tackle. They must begin by according indigenous peoples their most basic rights of identity, something that plundering state officials have been reluctant to do .....
The mentor and patron behind Nadhim Zahawi's early political career was disgraced Lord Archer whose record is dogged by controversies. One of these was the Anglia TV share scandal where Zahawi's brother in law and close colleague on Archer's campaigns, Broosk Saib, acted as proxy on what appeared as insider trading but was never prosecuted....
As HMRC boss says there are "no penalties for innocent errors" Sarawak Report learns the reported NCA investigation was closed the day Zawahi became chancellor. Were the millions earned by his Kurdish family company from Western financed reconstruction projects part of that investigation and did money pass to his London property portfolio?.....
The UK Conservative party is waging war on poor immigrant arrivals, yet Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, was eager to paint his colleague Nadim Zahawi (fined for dodging taxes whilst Chancellor) as a shining example of a penniless refugee made good.... except that's no more true than Zahawi's "erroneous" claims about his company!
SR gets to the bottom of Najib's latest twisted attempt to create yet a further appeal (following the loss of his last legal avenue through the Federal Court) against conviction over his multi-million ringgit theft from a public pension fund through SRC......
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