NINE QUESTIONS FOR SARAWAK REPORT: CURRENT / NURUL ANWAR DUE FOR QUESTIONING

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2. RELATED: POLICE TO QUESTION NURUL IZZAH IN PROBE ON 1MDB STOLEN DATA OFFER CLAIM
3. RELATED: NURUL IZZAH NEXT TO BE QUESTIONED BY COPS OVER LINKS WITH JUSTO

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POLICE TO QUESTION NURUL IZZAH OVER JUSTO'S CLAIMS

Police ready to question the Opposition MP over claims she offered to give ex-PSI employee government contracts in exchange for confidential information.

REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

PETALING JAYA, September 17, 2015–

Police, looking to question Opposition MP Nurul Izzah Anwar over claims she was willing to procure stolen data damaging to Prime Minister Najib Razak, have been told the PKR lawmaker is currently not in Malaysia.

Speaking to The Malaysian Insider, Nurul’s lawyer Latheefa Koya said, “She is being investigated under Section 124B of the Penal Code (activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy) but is yet to be questioned.

“The police were looking for her yesterday (Tuesday) but she is not around. She will be back on Monday.”

Nurul, who is MP for Lembah Pantai, is currently in the United States meeting with State Department officials, politicians, civil society leaders and international lawyers, in hopes Washington will pressure Putrajaya to approve immediate medical attention for her father, imprisoned former Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

She is being investigated over claims by imprisoned former PetroSaudi International employee Xavier Andre Justo that she was willing to offer him government contracts in exchange for stolen data he held on transactions between 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and PSI.

However Nurul has denied having ever met Justo and said, “If I have never met him and neither do I know him, how could I offer him USD2 million worth of government contracts once the opposition alliance comes to power in Putrajaya?”

Her lawyers have also commenced legal proceedings against two local dailies, The News [sic.] Straits Times and Berita Harian for publishing articles pertaining to the supposed deal she had with Justo, describing the reports as yet another desperate attempt by the Barisan Nasional-controlled media to deflect attention from the main issue of the RM42 billion debt scandal 1MDB was presently drowning in.

- FMT Reporters

('Police to question Nurul Izzah over Justo's claims.' - Free Malaysia Today, September 17, 2015)

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3. RELATED: NURUL IZZAH NEXT TO BE QUESTIONED BY COPS OVER LINKS WITH JUSTO

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RELATED: POLICE TO QUESTION NURUL IZZAH IN PROBE ON 1MDB STOLEN DATA OFFER CLAIM

REPORTED BY THE MALAY MAIL

KUALA LUMPUR, September 17, 2015—

PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar will be investigated by the police over her purported involvement in the purchase of stolen data on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), as alleged by several local dailies, her lawyer said today.

Latheefa Koya said the police had sought to question Nurul Izzah today under Section 124B of the Penal Code, but will have to delay it as the Lembah Pantai MP is currently abroad.

“Yes, the police came requesting for Nurul Izzah to give a statement but they haven’t actually done so yet because she’s not around so we will only confirm a date next week.

”They didn’t specify in what context. It has something to do with some offer and with an NST story. In other words, the defamatory remarks has led to a police investigation*,” the lawyer told Malay Mail Online when contacted.

She also said Nurul Izzah will fully cooperate with the police in the investigation.

Latheefa was referring to reports by the English-language daily New Straits Times and its Malay sister publication Berita Harian earlier this month, claiming former PetroSaudi International (PSI) executive Xavier Andre Justo as saying in a written confession that he had received an offer from Nurul Izzah to buy confidential information on 1MDB for US$2 million (RM8.49 billion), but had rejected it.

In response, Nurul Izzah denied the allegations and said that she had initiated legal action against the two dailies published by The New Straits Times Press, which is owned by the Umno-linked media group, Media Prima.

Latheefa said Nurul Izzah’s civil suit is a separate matter from the police investigation, adding that the two dailies have requested an extended deadline to respond to the lawmaker’s lawsuit.

“The one that Nurul Izzah filed a lawsuit, the lawyers for NST and Berita Harian has requested for an extension, two weeks to respond. We sent it last week so deadline is end of this week,” she said.

According to local news portal The Malaysian Insider, Nurul Izzah is currently in the US to meet with its state department officials, politicians, civil society leaders and international lawyers in hopes of getting urgent medical attention for her father and de facto opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for a shoulder injury.

Justo pled guilty last month in Thailand to a charge of attempting to blackmail Saudi-based PSI over purportedly incriminating documents and was sentenced to three years’ jail.

US paper Wall Street Journal reported last July that almost US$700 million was funnelled into the personal bank accounts of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak through several companies linked to 1MDB, two months before the tumultuous 13th general election in May 2013.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has, however, said that the money did not come from 1MDB, but from Middle Eastern donors that it did not identify.

*The Panel is wondering why YB Nurul's counsel isn't advising her to initiate a lawsuit against Justo.

('Cops to question Nurul Izzah in probe on 1MDB stolen data offer claim.' - The Malay Mail, September 17, 2015)

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2. RELATED: POLICE TO QUESTION NURUL IZZAH IN PROBE ON 1MDB STOLEN DATA OFFER CLAIM
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RELATED: NURUL IZZAH NEXT TO BE QUESTIONED BY COPS OVER LINKS WITH JUSTO

REPORTED BY THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER

PKR lawmaker Nurul Izzah Anwar is the latest to be investigated for activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy, after reports in several Umno-controlled dailies alleged that she had offered to buy stolen data on transactions between 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and PetroSaudi International.

Her lawyer, Latheefa Koya told The Malaysian Insider that police had come looking for the Lembah Pantai MP at her office to question her but was told she was away.

"She (Nurul Izzah) is being investigated under Section 124B of the Penal Code but is yet to be questioned," she told The Malaysian Insider.

"The police were looking for her yesterday (Tuesday) but she is not around. She will be back on Monday."

Nurul Izzah is currently in the United States to meet with State Department officials, politicians, civil society leaders and international lawyers, in an attempt to pile international pressure on Putrajaya to get urgent medical attention for her father, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who needs surgery for a shoulder injury.

She is also there to brief American officials on the alleged scandals involving Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, including the RM2.6 billion donation channelled into his personal accounts and the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) issue.

The latest investigation against her is believed to be over reports in the New Straits Times (NST) and Berita Harian, which reported that Nurul Izzah had offered US$2 million to former Petrosaudi employee Xavier Andre Justo in future contracts, in exchange for the information he had stolen from his employer.

NST and Berita Harian said Justo had wanted US$2 million in cash for the data, and that according to his confession, Nurul Izzah had instead offered to pay him in the form of contracts when the opposition took over federal power.

The PKR vice-president, who recently with other party members filed a suit against Najib for allegedly overspending in the 2013 general election, has denied the allegation, saying that she had never met Justo and has initiated legal proceedings against both dailies. Justo is currently serving a three-year sentence in Thailand for blackmailing his former employer with information on 1MDB.

Police are also investigating DAP lawmaker Tony Pua (left) and The Edge Media Group's owner Tong Kooi Ong and publisher Ho Kay Tat, following reports in the NST and Berita Harian which carried Justo's alleged written confession.

Pua, who is Petaling Jaya MP, is being probed under Section 120 for attempts to topple the government while Tong and Ho are being investigated for activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy after being implicated for having had communications with Justo.

NST reported that Pua, who has been questioned by police twice now, had allegedly introduced Sarawak Report founder and editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown to The Edge Media Group bosses.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar had said previously that police could only commence investigations into these individuals after they have interviewed Justo.

Justo was previously reported as saying that he had met with Malaysian opposition leaders and media owners in Singapore before he was arrested in Thailand on June 22. The Swiss national admitted to meeting these individuals in Singapore to negotiate the sale of documents he had acquired from PetroSaudi.

- Elizabeth Zachariah