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2. RELATED: JUSTO SAMAN THE EDGE, SARAWAK REPORT
3. RELATED: MEDIA TYCOON TONG KOOI ONG SEEKS TO STRIKE OUT JUSTO'S REPLY TO DEFENCE PAPERS
2. RELATED: JUSTO SAMAN THE EDGE, SARAWAK REPORT
3. RELATED: MEDIA TYCOON TONG KOOI ONG SEEKS TO STRIKE OUT JUSTO'S REPLY TO DEFENCE PAPERS
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TRIAL LOOMS OVER 'STOLEN DATA DEAL' BETWEEN JUSTO AND TONG
Singapore High Court case may reveal how Edge owner and Sarawak Report came to possess PetroSaudi and 1MDB data.
REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY
REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY
KUALA LUMPUR, April 12, 2016–
Details of secret dealings between convicted extortioner Javier Andre Justo and Edge media group owner Tong Kooi Ong may surface if an on-going civil action goes to trial in Singapore, reports Singapore’s Straits Times, with a pre-trial conference slated to be held later this week.
According to the report, Swiss national, Justo, 48, who was PetroSaudi International (UK)’s IT manager until April 2011, is suing Tong for damages in the island nation’s High Court.
Justo says that he was owed US$2 million after handing over two data storage drives at Fullerton Hotel to Tong in February last year.
He claims that part of the deal struck was reflected in a document entitled “Sale of Justo Property IT Software”signed between Tong and himself. He also cited WhatsApp exchanges and meetings held in Bangkok and Singapore involving Tong.
Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown, who published several of the documents on her blog, was also said to have attended a meeting in Bangkok two years ago.
In the present suit, Justo, who says he was never paid for the data, is asking for its return and for the destruction of all copies of documents made from it.
The storage drives are said to have contained documents belonging to 1MDB and PetroSaudi, its one-time partner in a 2009 joint venture undertaking which never took off.
Tong, who admits being present at the Fullerton Hotel meeting and signing the document, however denies the claim, saying instead that Justo was not entitled to recover the data since it was “widely reported” to have been stolen from PetroSaudi. He also denies having induced Justo into delivering the data drives.
Justo is currently serving a three-year jail term in Thailand for attempted extortion and blackmail of his former employer.
('Trial looms over 'stolen data deal' between Justo and Tong.' – Free Malaysia Today, April 12, 2016)
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3. RELATED: MEDIA TYCOON TONG KOOI ONG SEEKS TO STRIKE OUT JUSTO'S REPLY TO DEFENCE PAPERS
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RELATED: JUSTO SAMAN THE EDGE, SARAWAK REPORT
BERNAMA melaporkan, ugutan Justo gagal lalu beliau menyerahkan data tersebut kepada Kooi Ong dan Clare yang kemudiannya menawarkan US$2 juta sebagai imbuhan, namun ianya tidak ditunaikan sehingga warga Switzerland itu ditangkap di Koh Samui, Thailand.
BERNAMA melaporkan, ugutan Justo gagal lalu beliau menyerahkan data tersebut kepada Kooi Ong dan Clare yang kemudiannya menawarkan US$2 juta sebagai imbuhan, namun ianya tidak ditunaikan sehingga warga Switzerland itu ditangkap di Koh Samui, Thailand.
REPORTED BY KUALA LUMPUR POST
Bekas kakitangan PetroSaudi International, Xavier Andre Justo akan mengemukakan saman terhadap pemilik The Edge Media Group Datuk Tong Kooi Ong serta pengasas Sarawak Report, Clare Brown Rewcastle.
Laporan BERNAMA dipetik sebagai berkata, Xavier turut menyaman penerbit The Edge Ho Kay Tat dan mengarahkan ketiga-tiga mereka memulangkan semula kesemua data yang diberikan untuk mengugut PetroSaudi sebelum ini.
Menurut Justo, beliau akan membawa kes ini ke Singapura kerana beliau menyerahkan data tersebut kepada ketiga-tiga defendan di sana.
Justo kini menjalani hukuman penjara tiga tahun di Bangkok setelah didapati bersalah mencuri 90 gigabyte data termasuk email dan dokumen bagi mengugut bekas majikannya itu.
BERNAMA melaporkan, ugutan Justo gagal lalu beliau menyerahkan data tersebut kepada Kooi Ong dan Clare yang kemudiannya menawarkan US$2 juta sebagai imbuhan, namun ianya tidak ditunaikan sehingga warga Switzerland itu ditangkap di Koh Samui, Thailand.
Data sama juga digunakan Kooi Ong dan Clare bagi memburukkan imej 1MDB selain menuduh PetroSaudi memas
Sebelum ini, Polis Thai mengesahkan data yang diberikan Justo kepada Kooi Ong dan Clare diubah bagi tujuan memburukkan Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak.
“Laman web mengubah data untuk memburukkan Perdana Menteri,” kata jurucakap Polis Thailand, Leftenan Jeneral Prawuth.
('Justo saman The Edge, Sarawak Report.' – Kuala Lumpur Post, April 13, 2012)
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1. TRIAL LOOMS OVER 'STOLEN DATA DEAL' BETWEEN JUSTO AND TONG
2. RELATED: JUSTO SAMAN THE EDGE, SARAWAK REPORT
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RELATED: MEDIA TYCOON TONG KOOI ONG SEEKS TO STRIKE OUT JUSTO'S REPLY TO DEFENCE PAPERS
He is suing Mr Tong, the owner of Malaysia's The Edge media group, and two others. He claims that he was never paid the US$2 million (S$2.7 million) promised for two storage drives containing data which he supposedly handed over in Mr Tong's presence at a Fullerton Hotel meeting in February last year.
REPORTED BY THE STRAITS TIMES OF SINGAPORE
REPORTED BY THE STRAITS TIMES OF SINGAPORE
Media tycoon Tong Kooi Ong, in yet another salvo in an ongoing suit in the High Court of Singapore, has sought to strike out Swiss national Xavier Justo's reply to the former's defence papers. The move comes after Justo's lawyer in February dismissed Datuk Tong's defence as groundless.
A closed-door High Court pre-trial conference was held yesterday in the closely watched case. A pre-trial conference before an assistant registrar manages the run-up to the actual High Court hearing, monitoring timelines for documents to be submitted and ruling on interlocutory matters such as striking out actions.
Justo is the former employee of PetroSaudi who allegedly leaked details which led to claims that billions of ringgit were misappropriated at 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), an investment arm of the Malaysian government.
He is suing Mr Tong, the owner of Malaysia's The Edge media group, and two others. He claims that he was never paid the US$2 million (S$2.7 million) promised for two storage drives containing data which he supposedly handed over in Mr Tong's presence at a Fullerton Hotel meeting in February last year.
Along with damages, he wants the items, said to contain data about global oil services firm PetroSaudi and its business partner 1MDB, to be returned and for any copies to be destroyed, according to amended court documents filed by his lawyer Suresh Damodara last November.
Mr Tong, defended by lawyer Doris Chia, argues that Justo is not entitled to the items.
Mr Tong's latest move to strike out a key document by Justo to his defence follows another preliminary bout last December. That was when he succeeded in persuading the court to order that Justo place a $50,000 deposit as security for costs before the case is allowed to proceed further.
Justo, 48, who worked for PetroSaudi International (UK) as an IT manager until April 2011, is serving a three-year jail term in Thailand for blackmail of his former employer.
The owner and editor of the Sarawak Report, Ms Clare Rewcastle-Brown, though named as a defendant in Justo's suit, told The Straits Times on Monday that she has not been served with court papers in relation to the suit.
('Media tycoon Tong Kooi Ong seens to strike out Justo's reply to defence papers.' – The Straits Times of Singapore, April 13, 2016)
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