PUZZLING QUESTIONS | UPDATED AUGUST 17
Clare Rewcastle Brown doesn't actually give much out about details of her past, even present life, except in vague terms. These are then frequently punctuated and littered with controversies, names of individuals and/or issues that she would later expand at length, leaving the listener gaping in awe at her passion.
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[1: FOCUS / CLARE'S CONTRADICTIONS–THE FORKING OF THE TONGUE – "After finishing university in London, [Clare Rewcastle Brown] went into journalism, spending most of her career at the BBC World Service. But she seized every opportunity to return to Sarawak, a place that never quite let her go." - Foreign Policy, March 13, 2013]~[2: FOCUS / CLARE'S CONTRADICTIONS–THE FORKING OF THE TONGUE – "I have happy childhood memories of Sarawak. I didn’t return until I’d grown up and established myself in a completely different world [back in the UK], but I’d always followed what was happening in Borneo. By the time I came back in 2006—ironically because I’d been asked to take part in an environmental conference that [Tun Abdul] Taib [Mahmud] was holding at the time—" - Clare Rewcastle Brown - Esquire Malaysia, July 21, 2015]
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Hence, in the process of piecing together - and getting to know - the real Clare Brown from the frugal amount of legally available data out there, the NINE QUESTIONS Blog will filter out other irrelevant references and attempt to give the nearly hidden details she is sharing with us the prominence it deserves.
Of course, leaving out the easily-found lurid details, about the person, that this Blog is not interested in - unless absolutely necessary and backed with solid, non-fabricated evidence - is simply expected.
However, the NINE QUESTIONS Panel - as well as perhaps many more out there who are currently reading this Blog - seriously need to know more career details for example, and political leanings, sources of funding, organisational charts, and other details of that nature.
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[1: FOCUS / CLARE'S CONTRADICTIONS – THE FORKING OF THE TONGUE – "Clare told 16×9 she has received no money from Malaysian politicians and that her donors are 'all non-politically motivated Europeans'." - Global News Canada, December 2, 2011]~[2: FOCUS / CLARE'S CONTRADICTIONS – THE FORKING OF THE TONGUE – "The funding for her radio, she says, comes primarily from a single “European philanthropist” who wishes to remain anonymous; listeners also send donations through the website." - Foreign Policy, March 13, 2013]
~[3: CURRENT / CLARE'S FACELESS DONORS–MORE DOUBLE STANDARDS –"For the past year, I have received a salary for my work at RFS and SR, which has fallen below the level of taxable income* in the UK. Prior to that I worked on the project entirely unpaid for over four years". - Clare Rewcastle Brown - The Sun Daily, September 1, 2015]
~[4: FOCUS / CLARE'S CONTRADICTIONS–THE FORKING OF THE TONGUE –"I believe in balance and objectivity. But if you can't have that, I believe you have to be honest about it. Yes, we are associated with the opposition." - Clare Rewcastle Brown - Foreign Policy, March 13, 2013]
~[5: FOCUS / CLARE'S CONTRADICTIONS – THE FORKING OF THE TONGUE – "While the DAP representatives described election fraud in great detail and articulated their opposition to government corruption, they could not (or would not) tell us of their political agenda. Although we asked them several times to define their political goals, we left the meeting with the impression that the DAP has no legislative plans or detailed political priorities - other than maintenance of their seats in the next state election." - US Embassy Source–WikiLeaks, October 2, 2006]
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Superficially, it is quite surprising that in almost every avenue that Clare Rewcastle Brown and her organisation can choose to be transparent, she or they would take efforts at concealment. Security is usually cited as the reason for this continuous action.
That would have been fine if the staffers and volunteers at Sarawak Report continue to be those possessing unblemished records of behaviour and ethics.
But over a sufficiently long period, a different picture emerges. A picture that is of Clare Rewcastle Brown and her important colleagues and contacts - previously only acquainted by Clare to her audience as "sources", and other terminologies of similar vaguely enabling applications.
Again, if upon discovery of their true identities they turn out to be someone like the quintessential Edward Snowden, who never expected payment for his troubles - neither did he tamper with evidence, it's helpful to point out - then the case would have been slightly different.
As it turned out - and as the Blog had touched upon and will expand at greater length in future postings - it turned out that many of the identities that emerged through arrests, confessions, "counter-confessions" and other means, are not exactly someone one can trust with his wallet, so to speak.
But Clare Rewcastle Brown certainly puts enough trust in them to supply her with information that she happily uses.
And they are costing her dearly. It can be chalked up to honest mistakes by a 'dreadful old do-gooder', if only the mistakes weren't nearly identical with each other...even as her 'sources' change in character.
Here's a list from Clare's menagerie of VIPs. The Who's Who of Clare Rewcastle Brown.
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CULLEN JOHNSON
The first character that came to light was Cullen Johnson, whom we introduced in "Secrets of Sarawak Report - The Beginning of the End". He and his wife-accomplice were both arrested in 2013, while on the run on the Carribean Island of the Turks and Caicos, during which time, Clare Rewcastle Brown was in touch with at least one of them.
"Emails intercepted by the IRS also helped the case. In an affidavit filed by special agent Brian Pelfrey, he describes how the emails, obtained using a search warrant, showed that Johnson, White and Grontis were discussing the “preparation” of the banking reports."
('Island-hopping private eyes indicted on fraud, money laundering charges.' - Toronto Star, April 12, 2013)
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"They concocted bogus and stunningly realistic international banking information that would lead one party to believe the other had millions of dollars in assets offshore in places like the Channel Islands or the Cayman Islands. Over a period of time, the detectives would charge increasingly higher fees in return for more “banking information.” Often that information was presented in court as real and it took lawyers and judges years to understand it was false."
('Ontario detectives Cullen Johnson and Elaine White jailed in the U.S.' - Toronto Star, January 17, 2014)
On two different occasions, Clare took time to explain - vaguely, but lengthily - the nature of her relationship with Mr Johnson. For the purpose of research and in the interest of space conservation, note that deflections and speculations are reduced to fine print, although they would still be readable.
Important dates are also marked in orange.
"Mr Pitt first contacted Sarawak Report’s Editor via a text to their [sic.] hand phone. It is relevant to mention that this handphone number was handed to the Sarawak police back in 2009 after an arrest at an armed road blockade.
"It is equally relevant that on every occasion on which this handphone has subsequently been entered into Malaysia, it has been disabled after passing through airport immigration (where the Editor of Sarawak Report has always been questioned).
"Mr Dirk Pitt/Cullen Johnson purported to have information on the Taib family’s global wealth. However, disappointingly Mr Pitt/Cullen Johnson only produced information which he was unable to substantiate, either with documentation or corroborative facts.
"Worse, he encouraged us to pay him in order to obtain what he suggested might be illegally accessed information. So, we explained that this is not our method of working.
"Communications ceased."
('Hacked Off!' - Sarawak Report, May 8, 2013)
Note the discrepancy with the following explanation two years later, marked in red letters.
"In 2012 Johnson contacted Sarawak Report some time before the general election [sic.], purporting that he had accessed bank account information about Abu Bekir.
"For several months this fellow continued to contact Sarawak Report, having mysteriously gained access to a private mobile number, which the Sarawak authorities had also obtained during a visit to the state in 2009.
"For this reason we treated Cullen’s approach as suspicious throughout.
"However, journalists are always willing to listen to people who claim to have information and for several months we engaged with Johnson (mainly via Skype messages) and waited to see where it all might lead.
"Therefore, it was only after strikingly similar financial information was submitted in a court hearing related to Abu Bekir’s divorce and then printed in all the Malaysian media, that we too subsequently quoted what the Malaysian media reported had been said in court.
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[1: CURRENT / THE JUSTO CONFESSION ON THE STRAITS TIMES OF SINGAPORE – “Bunkum. What I have presented on 1MDB and has been clarified by The Edge and corroborated by several other official sources is a coherent explanation of events, versus the dodging, changing stories of 1MDB. - Clare Rewcastle Brown - The Straits Times, July 24, 2015]~[2: FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY'S LEGAL CODES - "2– Fraud by false representation; (2) A representation is false if— (b) the person making it knows that it is, or might be, untrue or misleading." - UK FRAUD ACT 2006, August 16, 2015]~[3: MAHMUD TAIB: EXAGGERATED WEALTH NOT REAL, BUT FORGERIES MASQUERADING AS HACKS – “It saddens me that my divorce, which is painful enough for all, should have been hijacked by politicians and activists, and used to disseminate falsehoods under the cover of this respected court.” - Dato Seri Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib - BlogTakes, August 17, 2015]
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"Here is the full story of what happened and readers should indeed prepare for a truly ugly tale, involving theft, hacking, dirty PR and smear tactics.
"It all began when shortly before the general election in 2013 my mobile phone was pickpocketed at night in my home street in London.
On this phone were my skype and gmail messages.
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[1: FOCUS / CLARE'S CONTRADICTIONS–THE FORKING OF THE TONGUE – "You don't publish something unless you've caught someone doing something naughty; and once you do, you're got a certain amount of license to give him a hard time. That's the job. I'm not trying to be objective, but I'm honest about what I say, and I'm critical where I think it's deserved." - Clare Rewcastle Brown - Esquire Malaysia, July 21, 2015]~[2: FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY'S LEGAL CODES - "2– Fraud by false representation; (2) A representation is false if— (b) the person making it knows that it is, or might be, untrue or misleading." - UK FRAUD ACT 2006, August 16, 2015]
During these tirades of counterattacks against her critics whom at the time Sarawak Report prefers to brand as 'Taib henchmen' - these days it seems that Tun Taib has forgiven her, if her stories were to be believed in the first place, as it is now only 'Najib henchmen' who are after her - Clare's explanations, although vague, was still believable back then due to the lack of further evidence.
Her innocence would have remained unblemished, and everyone should just sit back in the comfort of knowing that everything that Clare Rewcastle Brown has been saying was, is, and will always remain true.
Then, things started to change.
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XAVIER JUSTO
Arrested by Thai police on June 22, 2015, Xavier Andre Justo became an overnight sensation...
"Justo had allegedly threatened to release confidential business information, purportedly stolen from the company, if his demands were not met.
"An expert from PGI said: "Our investigation is still ongoing, but it is clear that we are looking at a case of large-scale data theft, and our analysis substantiates that Justo is the source of the data published on Sarawak Report.
“It is also clear that the stolen data sets are incomplete, and underwent an editing process after they were removed from PetroSaudi’s systems, and before they were published on the Internet. There are many inconsistencies between the published data and the data which still exists on files within PetroSaudi relating to that period of time. Simply put, it is incomplete data, creatively selected and edited to fit a desired narrative."
('Thai police nab PetroSaudi ex-staff over attempted extortion.' - New Straits Times, June 23, 2015)
...And the subject of a hastily assembled and just as quietly aborted rescue attempt - by none other than Sarawak Report. Or was it nothing than just another ruse to save herself and Sarawak Report before they drop another "SENSATIONAL FINDING!" and then the wheel would be set in motion again, and none would be ever the wiser.
In her 'Open Letter to the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern', Clare Rewcastle Brown empathically appealed to "[Name of official withheld]",
"I further request that Mr Justo is given all the protection due to a whistleblower in this situation and that proper steps are taken to investigate a grave financial fraud in which PetroSaudi International has played a major role.
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[1: BREAKING / JUSTO TO APPEAL 3-YEAR SENTENCE – "I am not a whistle-blower. I want people to know the real story, not just anything and everything written about me." - Xavier Justo - The Straits Times, September 3, 2015]
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"And I demand that PetroSaudi should now be properly investigated in Switzerland for conspiring to perpetrate this malicious action against a former Director of their company, who apparently parted ways owing to his concerns over its corrupt practices.
"In anticipation of an immediate reply on behalf of your citizen in captivity."
- Clare Rewcastle Brown
('Open Letter to the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern.' - Sarawak Report, June 23, 2015)
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"The contacts, who wish to remain anonymous, but who are extremely close, say that the family is distraught at what they say is a “terrible injustice” and an orchestrated attempt to defame Justo and make him a scapegoat over a billion dollar scandal in Malaysia."
('It's All Lies About Justo!' - Sarawak Report, June 27, 2015)
At this point, one cannot help but to wonder why would Clare Rewcastle Brown say the things she did, especially now that Mr Justo had tendered his confession and apparently not under duress, in exchange for a lighter sentence - his confession is further corroborated by some of the contacts that he had named in the said confession.
"I tried to open an account in Singapore, to have the money paid directly from (the buyer's) account," Justo said.
"DBS Bank refused, I don't know why. After that I opened an account in Abu Dhabi in my own personal name which was refused by (the buyer) because it had my name on it.
"Then I tried to use my company account in Hong Kong and he said the same, after that it was through a Luxembourg company and then again (the buyer) refused and after that Clare Brown took the lead."
"All of what is written in my confession, most of it is proven by e-mail conversations, WhatsApp messages I have had with (them)."
Ms Rewcastle-Brown had agreed to receive the US$2 million from the buyer and send him US$250,000 a month for consultancy services, he claimed.
"I don't know if she received the money or not, (because) I was arrested," he said. "I have no idea."
('I was offered $2.7m for stolen data: Ex-PetroSaudi employee Xavier Andre Justo on the 1MDB saga.' - The Straits Times, July 24, 2015)
To this, The Straits Times of Singapore was returned with a gruff,
"Bunkum.
"What I have presented on 1MDB and has been clarified by The Edge and corroborated by several other official sources is a coherent explanation of events, versus the dodging, changing stories of 1MDB."
- Clare Rewcastle Brown
('I was offered $2.7m for stolen data: Ex-PetroSaudi employee Xavier Andre Justo on the 1MDB saga.' - The Straits Times, July 24, 2015)
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[1: CURRENT / JUSTO AND THE EDGE MEDIA GROUP – "Yes, we misled [Justo]. But that was the only way to get hold of the evidence to expose how a small group of Malaysians and foreigners cheated the people of Malaysia of US$1.83 billion (S$2.5 billion)." - Datuk Tong Kooi Ong and Ho Kay Tat - The Straits Times, July 24, 2015]~[2: CURRENT / JUSTO AND THE EDGE MEDIA GROUP – "Yes, we misled [Justo]. But that was the only way to get hold of the evidence to expose how a small group of Malaysians and foreigners cheated the people of Malaysia of US$1.83 billion (S$2.5 billion)." - Datuk Tong Kooi Ong and Ho Kay Tat - The Straits Times, July 24, 2015] ~[3: CURRENT / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S INTERVIEW ON CHANNEL NEWSASIA REGARDING THE WARRANT FOR HER ARREST – "The Prime Minister has now finally had it announced through the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission that that was not anything to do with 1MDB money, which actually certainly I and I don’t know of any investigative reporters who said it was." - Clare Rewcastle Brown - Channel NewsAsia, August 5, 2015]~[4: FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY'S LEGAL CODES -"11– Obtaining services dishonestly. (2) A person obtains services in breach of this subsection if– (a) they are made available on the basis that the payment has been, is being, or will be made for or in respect of them, (b) he obtains them without any payment having been made for or in respect of them or without payment having been made in full, and (c) when he obtains them, he knows– (i) that they are being made available on the basis described in paragraph (a), or (ii) that they might be, but intends that payment will not be made, or will not be made in full." - UK FRAUD ACT 2006, August 16, 2015]~[5: BREAKING / BUSINESSMAN AT CENTER OF MAJOR MALAYSIAN CORRUPTION SCANDAL IS JAILED IN THAILAND – “I did pursue [Justo] doggedly to get the material. In the end he surrendered it for free." - Clare Rewcastle Brown - The Telegraph, August 17, 2015]
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Not unlike her saying, "The outcome of the case in Singapore is immaterial," when questioned about the use of fabricated materials on her website, incidentally the raison d'être of the NINE QUESTIONS Blog.
Naturally, these recent developments had given rise to ever more questions, and not all of them are any longer directed towards 1MDB, but also back to Clare Rewcastle Brown herself.
The frequently deployed, yet rarely reasonable and investigated universal put-down of 'henchmen' or 'crony' for any critics that come asking questions are by now wearing thin, as the general public begin demanding their own answers from the Editor-in-Chief of Sarawak Report, on some of the blatant discrepancies and outright lies that have gradually been uncovered in her articles - the true colours of which are slowly but surely emerging from the negative.
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DATO TING CHECK SII
It beggars belief, but it really seems that Clare Rewcastle Brown really is smitten by this Dato Ting character. The Panel members have never had the privilege of actually getting to know the man, but our first impression is the exact same one we would have taken of a person who would stoop so low as to supply fabrications, not only to any court, but the High Court of Singapore no less.
It does the presiding Judge much credit for showing such a degree of compassion and magnanimity towards Dato Ting, but we certainly wouldn't recommend entrusting anything but a toothpick in his hands. That is, judging by the words of His Honour himself,
"As a preliminary comment, it is obvious from the proceedings that while both Datuk Tufail and Dato Ting are defendants, Tanaka is in substance, Dato Ting’s mouthpiece.
"However, I completely reject Tanaka’s contention on the Oral Agreements. Tanaka has not discharged its legal burden to prove that it retained beneficial ownership of its money.
"There is simply no credible evidence to substantiate the existence of the oral agreements at all material times.
"I need only outline a few broad reasons here.
"The lack of contemporaneous documentary evidence casts severe doubts on the Oral Agreements.
"Tanaka’s case was originally premised on the purported directors’ resolutions of 1993 and 1994, which I find to be fabricated.
"There is no sound reason for Tanaka to abandon its reliance on them if they are genuine.
"Having found that the Oral Agreements do not exist, I find that Tanaka is unable to discharge its legal burden."
- Justice Edmund Leow - The High Court of Singapore, 'Suit No 783 of 2012', June 29, 2015
However, should Clare Rewcastle Brown have been the Judge on that day, the result would have been astoundingly in reverse, for reasons that should be obvious by now - she is madly, deeply in love, and she is hanging by Dato Ting Check Sii's every syllable.
The evidence of Clare Rewcastle Brown's mad, blind love for Dato Ting are unmistakably attested by two 'love letters' designed to drive a deathblow to her 'spurned lover's' arch-enemy's reputation, starting from the headlines.
"The Singapore court case ['Suit No 783 of 2012'] is one of several waged against Tufail by former business partners and these have revealed another disturbing deception by Taib’s brother. Tufail was also hiding his ownership of a lucrative timber concession granted by Taib, according to separate court papers.
"Sanyan Lumber Sdn Bhd was the name of the concession, which was the source of much of the money flowing through Tanaka Lumber in Singapore.
"Tufail is not listed as a Director or Shareholder of the company, however, his partner Dato Ting Check Sii, has confirmed that he was indeed the 50% shareholder, which provided the key source of timber behind Sanyan’s exports:
"In 1987, I set up Sanyan Lumber Sdn Bhd which was given a timber concession. The shares of this company are held by me (50%) and Draman @ Morshidi bin Omar (50%) (as nominee of Datuk Tufail). Datuk Tufail told me that he needed to use a nominee because his brother was then and still is the Minister for Resource Planning. Datuk Tufail now denies Draman is his nominee, even though Datuk Tufail and I are the only joint bank signatories for this Company". [Submission by Dato Ting to Sarawak High Court]
"In other words Mr Bin Omar was merely a nominee, of the sort described by Alvin Chong as a one eyed man in the land of the blind (meaning the Dayak of Sarawak, who were allegedly unaware how they are habitually cheated in this way)."
('Tufail Mahmud - How I Evaded Tax On My Secret Timber Concession.' - Sarawak Report, January 27, 2015)
And what was meant by 'separate court papers' by Sarawak Report was their earlier love letter for Dato Ting Check Sii, which was just as unequivocally and devotedly following whatever script they had set to recite together,
"Evidence in a bitter court battle, currently being played out in Sibu, has laid out in devastating detail a mass of shocking information about the corruption at the heart of Sarawak’s State Government.
There has been little reporting of the case so far, because the Taib family have [sic.] been doing their [sic.] best to suppress it."
('Hard Evidence - Sanyan Scandal Exposes Taib.' - Sarawak Report, November 6, 2010)As with the rest of the 'love letters', the last line in quotation, "there has been little reporting of the case so far, because the Taib family have [sic.] been doing their [sic.] best to supress it," is another complete and blatant lie, as a quick check on the internet would easily dispel this assertion, with an article published well over a year before Clare Rewcastle Brown made such a gravely faulty conclusion - yet once again:
"A monumental decision favouring Sarawakian and Sabahan lawyers was made yesterday. The Federal Court (F.C.) sitting here said Peninsular Malaysian lawyers cannot appear in an appeal case before the Court of Appeal (C.A.) or F.C. which originates from Sabah or Sarawak, even if the appellate court convened in Putrajaya.
"The decision also meant that lawyers from Sabah and Sarawak may, however, appear before the F.C. or C.A. when the appellate Court sits in Putrajaya, if the appeal is against a judgment of the High Court in Sabah or Sarawak.
"The apex court, therefore, overturned a judgment of the C.A. delivered by Justice Gopal Sri Ram, declaring that Counsel Tommy Thomas, a senior Peninsular Malaysian lawyer, was entitled to represent a former state assemblyman Datuk [sic.] Ting Chek [sic.] Sii in his appeal against a Kuching High Court judgment dismissing his petition to wind up a local company Sanyan Holdings Sdn Bhd.
"Justice Sri Ram held that because the C.A. was sitting in Putrajaya the applicable law to decide if Thomas could practise in the court was the Legal Profession Act 1976.
"Sarawak Advocates’ Ordinance which regulates legal practice before the courts in Sarawak had no extra-territorial effect and therefore Thomas is not subject to the restriction in the Sarawak Ordinance regarding his eligibility to appear before the C.A. in Putrajaya.
"Dissatisfied with that decision, Sanyan Holdings and Tufail sought a ruling from the F.C. on the ground that the C.A.’s judgment eroded a constitutional protection embodied in Article 161B of the Federal Constitution that allows only persons resident in Sabah and Sarawak to practise before the courts in the two states and also before the C.A. and F.C. when dealing with appeals originating from the two East Malaysian states."
('No Peninsula lawyers in East M'sian appeals case.' - My Sarawak, April 16, 2009)
In case the point was missed, it is a wonder how Sarawak Report never even bothered to look for landmark decisions involving cases that touch on matters of Constitutional importance, especially when it concerns Sarawak - the place Clare had declared such undivided love for - and Sarawakian rights vis-à-vis the upholding of the Malaysia Agreement 1963, itself a hallmarked and cherished legacy of the British to the People of Malaysia.
In this context, it is imperative that The NINE QUESTIONS Panel asks, "Who's news really is the one being suppressed?"
Not only is Clare Rewcastle Brown totally and tragically mistaken about her apparent 'lover', Dato Ting Check Sii, whose words are her gold standard, but she is also gravely mistaken about simple facts that no self-respecting "investigative journalist" would even make, unless deliberately.
Dato Ting Check Sii is - to use a typically Malaysian aphorism - a VVIP on this list not only due to Clare's obvious and blind devotion to his sentiments, but also provides another frame of reference to Sarawak Report's suspected modus operandi, vis-à-vis laundering falsities through the court system in order to convert them into facts for public consumption, with the intent to prejudice.
And then comes Lester.
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LESTER MELANYI
Much of what the panel knows about Lester is from recent events, admittedly. Other than him having worked at the old Sarawak Tribune, and was forced to tender his resignation due to the purportedly accidental printing of the infamous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
He was recently thrust into the spotlight again due to his recent confession on the nature of his involvement with Clare Rewcastle Brown, and because of that, received very swift, and exacting condemnation from his former colleague at Sarawak Report.
While Mr Melanyi's testimony is severely in doubt at the moment, not in the least due to the very sloppy mistake with the photograph of the person he had alleged to be Clare Brown's "I.T. Guy". The Panel assumes that this is the same "I.T. Guy" that Justo had referred to in his confession.
The only thing we can do at this moment concerning the actual validity of Lester's confession is to wait for more auxiliary evidence to emerge, chiefly of which the ones still forthcoming from the Thai authorities, who are awaiting due processes to take their course.
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MISSING PIECES
This list is by no means exhaustive, and The NINE QUESTIONS Panel will continue to update this Dramatis Personæ - Who's Who of Clare Brown as more concrete evidence become available.
Until the NINE QUESTIONS Blog returns with more facts, we shall ponder on more of Justo's confession in The Straits Times of Singapore,
"I gave the original documents without any kind of alteration," he claimed. "I can say that I gave those documents to two groups of people," he added. One was Rewcastle-Brown and "her I.T. guy" and the other was the Malaysian businessman and his colleague. The Straits Times is not naming the businessman as well as his colleague pending their response to the latest allegations.
"He alleged that those he met had talked about using the documents "to try to bring down the Malaysian government", adding that they also referred to plans to "modify the documents".
"He said he asked PetroSaudi for more money in 2013 but it turned him down.
"Subsequently, through a contact in Geneva with connections in Malaysia, he was introduced to Rewcastle-Brown, whom he later met in Bangkok at the Plaza Athenee hotel and in Singapore at the Fullerton Hotel. In Singapore, she was accompanied by the others named in his confession."
('I was offered $2.7m for stolen data: Ex-PetroSaudi employee Xavier Andre Justo on the 1MDB saga.' - The Straits Times, July 24, 2015)
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