NINE QUESTIONS FOR SARAWAK REPORT: FOCUS / SR V RPK: SEDDONS LETTER REVEALS MORE THAN REWCASTLE INTENDED

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2. RELATED: THE SEDDONS-RPK CORRESPONDENCE
3. RELATED: KES SRC INTERNATIONAL DAN DANA RM2.6 BILLION: SPRM AKAN RESPONS ARAHAN PEGUAM NEGARA DALAM WAKTU TERDEKAT
4. RELATED: IS RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON COINCIDENTAL?
5. RELATED: MALAYSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION SNUBS REWCASTLE BROWN
6. RELATED: A RECORD OF UNTRUE STORIES - THE CASE OF CLARE REWCASTLE

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DECONSTRUCTING THE SEDDONS CORRESPONDENCE

Underneath the strongly-worded, yet sloppy semi-confession and preemptive defence jumps out damaging details and admissions that Clare Rewcastle Brown can no longer deny.

BY CASSIUS PEREIRA

In a surprising development, Sarawak Report is confirmed to have served London-based blogger-in-exile Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) a letter of demand through their attorney, Seddons on April 7, 2016.

Contained within the correspondence are basically accusations of erroneous reporting on the part of RPK, demanding - amongst others - for the removal of specific articles that points directly to her murky, hidden past.

1. WHAT "DAMAGING MATERIAL" IS CLARE REWCASTLE TRYING TO KEEP BURIED?

"At the foot of the Malaysia Today article you have provided a hyperlink labelled "READ MORE HERE", inviting readers to click on the link and thereby visit and read what appears at http://www.opensourceinvestigations.com/malaysia/a-record-of-untrue-stories-the-case-of-clare-rewcastle/, a page on a website operated in the name Open Source Investigations ("the OSI article") ... As has obviously been your intention, by so doing you will have caused and will continue to cause readers of the Malaysia Today article also to visit and read the OSI article." – Seddons

Also, the letter continues, "The Articles assert that Ms Rewcastle Brown was a dishonest journalist who was not able to get a job at the BBC or ITV as she was known to publish stories that were known by her to be untrue ... It is your allegation that is deliberately untrue, designed as it is to undermine the corruption that our client has exposed and which you seek to hide. Ms Rewcastle Brown has never run a story that she knew to be untrue."

The article in question (see #6 below) actually features a short, but highly damaging report by the reputable Private Eye Magazine, in its 958th issue of September 4, 1998.

Private Eye Magazine wrote the following damning entry that Clare Rewcastle Brown has been doing her darnedest to keep hidden:

"Carlton Television, still red-faced after its hard-hitting drug smuggling expose The Connection was revealed to be a fake, has cocked-up again.

"A London Today "investigation" at the end of June suggested that proxy votes for the May local elections had been misused, to the extent that Labour had been deprived of victory in many wards.

"Two women claimed their votes for the May local elections were given by proxy without their knowledge. In fact both had received letters from the returning officer, acknowledging receipt of their request to vote by proxy and telling them how to cancel if they changed their minds.

"London Today's reporter Clare Rewcastle talked of "serious question marks" over the way Lib Dem votes were won and "something fishy" going on.

Resident Abdur Rahim Mulla said on the programme he didn't know how someone "got the right to make a proxy vote, so he told Rewcastle to spike his contribution – yet it still went on air.

"All political parties were given a full list of proxy votes before the elections – not mentioned. Out of 970 proxy votes in Hackney, 540 were in wards where there was no Lib Dem candidate – not mentioned.

"Never mind the lack of facts – feel the sensation!"

– Private Eye Magazine, Issue 958, September 4, 1998

The is no evidence that Clare Rewcastle Brown had initiated any legal action against this publication, so by her own warped reasoning, this shows that she concurs with what is written 18 years ago.

As mentioned in the Seddons letter, she states clearly that, "For as long as the Malaysia Today article and its link to the OSI remains available on your website and is recoverable by Google or other internet searches, the Articles will always be likely to cause further serious harm to our client's reputation."

We fail to sympathise with her predicament.

2. ADMISSION TO HAVING LIED ABOUT SULAIMAN'S NON-EXISTENT DISEASE, AND PROPAGATING THE LIE BY HAVING NEVER RETRACTED NOR CORRECTED THE ERROR

"Be that as it may Rahman Sulemain (sic.) has never chosen to challenge our client on this issue directly himself, he still being alive and well in the west, where he now lives having abandoned all his political and business positions in Malaysia."

The warped logic employed by Seddons to justify the propagation of this untruth is the excuse that there being no press charges to date, and thus Raja Petra Kamarudin and others would be in the wrong for reporting that her reporting is wrong, when it in fact is.

For instance, can a robber legally prevent someone from reporting her simply on the basis that the house owner never pressed charges against her?

This is a weak defence at best, deceitful at worst.

The Seddons letter foolishly emphasises that she really did assert something that she now knows to be untrue, without any acknowledgment of the glaring error that she had committed, by reprinting the incorrect assertion of the non-existent disease suffered by Sulaiman, and thus non-existent "AIDS scandal in Sarawak":

"This is what we mean when we speak of an AIDS scandal in Sarawak. That a leader of the state, who has himself experience and understanding of this vicious disease through his own family, could on the one hand move heaven and earth to get the very best treatment for his son, while callously ignoring others who have the same affliction."

Thus, the notion that Clare Rewcastle Brown never lied about this writeup (and plenty others not mentioned within the letter in reference) is patently untrue.

We invite Clare to challenge us on this point.

Furthermore, the letter also admits that Clare Rewcastle Brown based this malicious rumour based on nothing more than hearsay: "As Ms Rewcastle Brown made clear she had been told that Rahman Sulaiman was suffering from Aids (sic.)..."

Regardless, it must also be noted that she never retracts her disproven statement, and is even insisting that the propagation of this lie is justified barring a court action.

Ethics alone will not move her to do the right thing, this is evident.

3. CLARE KNEW THAT THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SHAHNAZ MAJID MATCHED INFORMATION FROM HER CONVICTED FABRICATOR CONTACT, CULLEN JOHNSON BUT FAILED TO ALERT ANYONE BEFORE OR AFTER THEY PRINTED THE MATERIALS AFTER BEING "PRESENTED IN COURT"

"The MPs' motion and our client's story was based, inter alia, on evidence from the Chief Minister's daughter-in-law, Shahnaz Abdul Mahjid (sic.) in divorce proceedings in Kuala Lumpur, cited in the article."

Clare Rewcastle further fails to mention that the statement by the Swiss MPs' motion were also based on the same information that she knew to be from convicted fabricator, Cullen Johnson.

She previously stated, "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

But two years later, changed her statement to, "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." – A Truly Ugly Story - Theft, Hacking and Smear Tactics, January 10, 2015

She also admitted to having knowledge of the information being suspicious, but again, let the public think that they are true, even today: "Therefore, it was only after strikingly similar financial information [from Cullen Johnson] 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." – A Truly Ugly Story - Theft, Hacking and Smear Tactics, January 10, 2015

As per her usual modus operandi, there has been no corrections made even after realising and admitting to having earlier suspicions to the veracity of her source and integrity of the information she supplied.

Her working tactics concerning Cullen Johnson mimics her disastrous brush with Xavier Justo.

UK FRAUD ACT 2006
2 Fraud by false representation

(2) A representation is false if—

(a) it is untrue or misleading, and;

(b) the person making it knows that it is, or might be, untrue or misleading.

(3) “Representation” means any representation as to fact or law, including a representation as to the state of mind of—

(a) the person making the representation, or;

(b) any other person.

(4) A representation may be express or implied.

(5) For the purposes of this section a representation may be regarded as made if it (or anything implying it) is submitted in any form to any system or device designed to receive, convey or respond to communications (with or without human intervention).

– Laws of the United Kingdom, UK Fraud Act 2006

4. XAVIER JUSTO - FORMERLY 'WHISTLEBLOWER', NOW MORTAL ENEMY. IN THE SEDDONS LETTER, REWCASTLE ADMITS AGAIN TO BEING A PART OF THE GROUP THAT DEFRAUDED JUSTO

"It is also true that Mr Justo wanted to be paid for this information and that it was our client who found someone who was, or so it appeared, able and prepared to pay Mr Justo as much as US$2 million, namely the "media tycoon" Tong Kooi Ong. In the event, although our client did try to see that Mr Justo got paid as agreed, and indeed to our client's regret, no money was forthcoming from Mr Tong." – Seddons

Without needing to make further argument, we need only compare the last statement with what the Law of the UK says, to take but one example:

UK FRAUD ACT 2006
11 Obtaining services dishonestly

(1) A person is guilty of an offence under this section if he obtains services for himself or another—

(a) by a dishonest act, and

(b) in breach of subsection (2).

(2) A person obtains services in breach of this subsection if—

(a) they are made available on the basis that 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.

– Laws of the United Kingdom, UK Fraud Act 2006

This admission is the latest iteration amongst many previously repeated.

Clare also - in full knowledge of it being untrue - falsely represented Justo as a 'whistleblower', even in the full knowledge that there was a monetary deal going on out of public view, prior to that information becoming known, to her great embarassment.

Yet, she never explained why she never disclosed the backdoor dealings to her audience at the material time, and in fact lied about the nature of Justo's involvement being that of a 'whistleblower' when he in fact was later on convicted on blackmailing charges, and had undeniably arrived at some monetary agreement with Clare and Co.

5. THE 1MDB SHAM AND THE MACC REFUTATION

Clare, through her lawyers has admitted in this case to have made a public statement later proven by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission to be false, but claims that the MACC's statement had been discredited with the statement, "The MACC criticism of our client was unfounded and has now been discredited," without any documentary evidence to prove this.

For reference, the MACC is on record as stating, "In the meantime, the MACC would like to clarify that the report made by news portal Sarawak Report today, that claimed that there were supposedly 37 separate recommendations of charges brought forward by the MACC to the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak involving SRC International as untrue."

How had Sarawak Report managed to authoritatively (condemnations on Sarawak Report doesn't constitute one) refute the MACC's official statement remains a mystery, but evidently, the lack of retraction even after the MACC's refutation obviates the unethical methods in which Clare Rewcastle Brown and Sarawak Report operate in.

In 2016, as it was in 1998, Clare Rewcastle Brown's work ethics has remained equally suspect at best.

Thus, considering the above five points, although they certainly do not exhaust the arguments weighing against her based on her constantly contradictory statements, we can safely say that the following statement made through her lawyer is certainly untrue: "More importantly, nothing in those reports was published fraudulently or dishonestly by Ms Rewcastle Brown, when she knew it to be untrue. They were not, and did not contain, lies by our client."

Naturally, the cases against her are mountainous, and many have been uncovered previously in this blog, and also other blogs that are only interested in the real truth of the matter. As they become available, we will elaborate more on this topic and give it the focus it really deserves.

In this case, the truth will ultimately work against her.

('Deconstructing the Seddons Correspondence.' – The NINE QUESTIONS Blog, April 17, 2016)

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1. DECONSTRUCTING THE SEDDONS CORRESPONDENCE
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3. RELATED: KES SRC INTERNATIONAL DAN DANA RM2.6 BILLION: SPRM AKAN RESPONS ARAHAN PEGUAM NEGARA DALAM WAKTU TERDEKAT
4. RELATED: IS RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON COINCIDENTAL?
5. RELATED: MALAYSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION SNUBS REWCASTLE BROWN
6. RELATED: A RECORD OF UNTRUE STORIES - THE CASE OF CLARE REWCASTLE

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RELATED: THE SEDDONS-RPK CORRESPONDENCE

REPORTED BY MALAYSIA TODAY

SEDDONS

Your ref:
Our ref: REW001.001/ML/MML
Email: Mark.Lewis@seddons.co.uk
DDI: +44(0)2077258012
Fax: 02079355049

Raja Petra Kamarudin Esq

2 Broadway,
Manchester
M40 3LN

Dear Sir

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

Our client: Clare Rewcastle Brown

"A Record of Untrue Stories - Clare Rewcastle", Malaysia Today, February 2 2016.

We act for Clare Rewcastle Brown, a London-based freelance journalist who, as you know, has for some years specialised in reporting in Malaysian affairs.

Particularly, Ms Rewcastle Brown has reported and campaigned on the plundering of the land, forests and other natural resources of Sarawak (where she was born), the massive corruption associated with those activities and the appalling deprivation and hardship caused to the indigenous population. It was as a vehicle for that campaign that, in 2010, Ms Rewcastle Brown founded the online Sarawak Report, together with its sister organisation Sarawak Free Radio.

Ms Rewcastle Brown instructs us concerning seriously defamatory and damaging material published by you on, and also by means of, the Malaysia Today website. This letter is sent pursuant to the Pre-Action Protocol for Defamation, in contemplation of proceedings for libel against you in the High Court if our client's reasonable requirements in this matter are not met.

We are aware that you have continued to publish other seriously and defamatory and damaging material at such a rate that out letter is out of date in that it does not include the latest defamation published by you as part of your relentless campaign to defame our client. It will be our intention to proceed on against you for all defamation and therefore when replying you might wish to respond on the basis that this letter sets out your more recent material. The proceedings that will be issued will be in respect of the words set out here and your subsequent defamatory material.

The publications

On 2 February 2016 you first published on Malaysia Today an article headed "A Record of Untrue Stories - the Case of Clare Rewcastle" above a photograph of our client bearing the caption "A Fraudulent Journalist".

This article ("the Malaysia Today article") is at http://malaysia-today.net/a-record-of-untrue-stories-the-case-of-clare-rewcastle/. We attach a printout.

The Malaysia Today article continues to be published by you, both to visitors to Malaysia Today who use your onsite search facility to look for material about our client and/or matters referred to in the article and to persons using search engines such as Google to look for the same material.

At the foot of the Malaysia Today article you have provided a hyperlink labelled "READ MORE HERE", inviting readers to click on the link and thereby visit and read what appears at htto://www.opensourceinvestigations.com/malaysia/a-record-of-untrue-stories-the-case-of-clare-rewcastle/, a page on a website operated in the name Open Source Investigations ("the OSI article").

As has obviously been your intention, by so doing you will have caused and will continue to cause readers of the Malaysia Today article also to visit and read the OSI article.

We attach a printout of the OSI article. It is in fact in the same terms as your Malaysia Today article, except that it has the following concluding paragraphs that you omitted from your article.

"Rewcastle's nervousness about the 'oust Najib' campaign's results

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), the government agency that investigates and prosecutes corruption in the public and private sectors, conducted an inquiry into 1MDB scandal.

On 31 December 2015, MACC submitted the investigation papers to the Malaysian Attorney-General. The Attorney General required further explanation on some of the suggestions and actions proposed by the MACC and sent back the probe. A few days ago, MACC responded to the Attorney General's queries.

As the judicial investigation came to an end, Clare Rewcastle Brown and her associates have become increasingly nervous about the outcome of their campaign. On 17 January 2016, they announced on Sarawakreport (sic) that MACC's investigation "contains no less than 37 separate charges against Najib". As already been shown on OSI, this was just another distortion. MACC promptly released a statement, publicly reprimanding Rewcastle for being "incorrect".
http://www.sprm.gov.my/images/KES-SRC-INTERNATIONAL-DAN-DANA-R-2.6-BILION-SPRM-AKAN-RESPONS-ARAHAN-PEGUAM-NEGARA-DALAM-WAKTU-TERDEKAT.pdf

Caught out for her dishonesty again

Based on MACC investigation, Malaysia's Attorney General, Mohamed Apandi Ali, has cleared Prime Minister Najib Razak of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal. No crime was committed by the Prime Minister Najib Razak. What about the plotters and their media accomplice, Clare Rewcastle Brown? Their illegal actions and the motives behind them have been revealed. All the accusations on the donation were proved to be completely false and the campaign was left in tatters.

But having spent so much money on the political campaign and the motivation of the recruited blogger, more falsehoods and deliberately misleading stories are likely from Clare Rewcastle."

The libels

Obviously these vicious articles ("the Articles") were intended to be and are very seriously defamatory of our client, damaging both to her personal and professional reputations.

Their overarching imputation is encapsulated by the heading and caption referred to above and the first subheading, "Sarawak Report's long and shameful history of lying". Ms Rewcastle Brown is branded as an habitually dishonest and deceitful journalist with a career-long history of publishing stories she knew to be untrue.

As you will have appreciated, no more professionally insulting libel could be levelled at our client. It is entirely untrue. It is not justified by the series of untrue charges made in the Articles, nor by any other conduct by our client in her career as a journalist.

Work for the BBC and ITV

The Articles assert that Ms Rewcastle Brown was a dishonest journalist who was not able to get a job at the BBC or ITV as she was known to publish stories that were known by her to be untrue.

It is your allegation that is deliberately untrue, designed as it is to undermine the corruption that our client has exposed and which you seek to hide. Ms Rewcastle Brown has never run a story that she knew to be untrue.

The son of the Sarawak Chief Minister

The articles suggest that a story published in Sarawak Report in October 2010 was another case of our client publishing stories she knew to be untrue. Supposedly, in this story she lied by claiming that the son of the the Sarawak Chief Minister had AIDS when the truth was that he had withdrawn from public life because he was grieving the death of his mother.

The truth is that the story in question ("Where is Sulaiman?" Sarawak Report, 19 October 2010) is completely different from how you purposely misrepresent it. As Ms Rewcastle Brown made clear she had been told that Rahman Sulaiman was suffering from Aids (sic.) and that he was abroad receiving treatment whereas indigenous Aids sufferers received sub-standard treatment from Malaysia's health services were needlessly under-providing for ordinary Aids (sic.) sufferers (sic.) It was preposterous to suggest that the article was homophobic (no mention of sexuality was made in the article), clearly Aids (sic.) is not just a disease of one sexuality, moreover in Malaysia it tends to be more prevalent in heterosexual people. Be that as it may Rahman Sulemain (sic.) has never chosen to challenge our client on this issue directly himself, he still being alive and well in the west, where he now lives having abandoned all his political and business positions in Malaysia.

The article clearly ends by saying "This is what we mean when we speak of an AIDS scandal in Sarawak. That a leader of the state, who has himself experience and understanding of this vicious disease through his own family, could on the one hand move heaven and earth to get the very best treatment for his son, while callously ignoring others who have the same affliction" (sic.)

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/03/03/is-return-of-the-prodigal-son-coincidental/

The articles suggest that a story published in Sarawak Report on 14 January 2013 is another case of our client publishing stories she knew to be untrue. Supposedly, in this story she lied by claiming that Rahman's father Abdul Taib bin Mahmud, the Chief Minister of Sarawak , (sic.) stashed state funds in Swiss bank accounts when this was not true, because the Chief Minister did not have any Swiss bank accounts.

The truth is that the story in question is Sarawak Report reported a motion by Swiss Federal MPs that accounts belonging to the Chief Minister and his family should be frozen so that the ill-gotten gains of the Taib family in those accounts could be returned to the people of Sarawak.

The Swiss MPs' motion stated: "He [Taib] has abused his public office in a spectacular was to illicitly enrich himself, his family members and his political cronies through corruption, abuse of office and the establishment of a number of monopolies held by his family members and cronies. Research by non-governmental organizations has shown that the Taib family holds stakes in over 400 companies in 25 countries and offshore finance centers. The Taib family assets have been estimated at over 20 billion Swiss franks (sic.). A large part of Taib's illicit assets have been acquired in the context of the illegal logging of tropical rainforests of Borneo and the export of tropical timbers" (sic.)

The MPs' motion and our client's story was based, inter alia, on evidence from the Chief Minister's daughter-in-law, Shahnaz Abdul Mahjid (sic.) in divorce proceedings in Kuala Lumpur, cited in the article. This evidence was to the effect that the Chief Minister and his family, particularly his son Mahmud, had accounts amounting to well in excess of US100 million in various countries, including accounts in Switzerland holding riches corruptly and illicitly acquired by plundering Sarawak.

1MDB and the Prime Minister of Malaysia

According to the articles, the latest incidence of fraudulent journalism in Ms Rewcastle's "history of lying" is to be found in her work published in Sarawak Report exposing corruption related to Malaysia's 1Malaysia Development Berhad, widely known as "1MDB".

As you know, the true background to this baseless charge is that, in a series of exposés in Sarawak Report, our client has shown 1MDB to be a case study in the workings of Malaysia's kleptocracy, demonstrating how, under the direction of Malaysian Prime Minister cum Finance Minister Najib Razak, billions of dollars were borrowed for 1MDB's development work and then channelled out of Malaysia. In May 2015, Sarawak Report published information which showed that over a billion dollars of unexplained cash had been funnelled back into Malaysia and into the Prime Minister's own bank accounts.

Contrary to your allegation in the Articles, Ms Rewcastle Brown's reports on these matters were not, or at least have not been shown in any convincing way to be untrue in any significant respect. Despite the Prime Minister's best efforts no one seriously doubts that very substantial sums money did indeed find their way out of 1MDB funding, out of Malaysia and then into the pocket of the Prime Minister and his family. This matter is now the subject of massive international media coverage and serveral (sic.) lawsuits, including a suit against the Prime Minister by the former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammed.

More importantly, nothing in those reports was published fraudulently or dishonestly by Ms Rewcastle Brown, when she knew it to be untrue. They were not, and did not contain, lies by our client.

Just as falst as the charge that our client's reports on the 1MDB affair were lies are the supposed "facts" presented in the Articles in support of that charge.

Recruited for a "plot"

Contrary to your claim in the Articles, Ms Rewcastle Brown was not "recruited" by any team of Malaysian businessmen. aggrieved or otherwise, either to work on the 1MDB story or more generally on a plot to oust from office the Prime Minister, Najib Razak. If there was such a plot, which Ms Rewcastle does not believe there was, she was no conscious part of it.

"Stolen data" and "bribery"

As is well known, Sarawak Report's exposé of the fraud behind the so-called "1MDB PetroSaudi joint venture" which removed US$1.83 billion dollars from Malaysia's public purse was substantially based on the PetroSaudi database which that company's ex-director Xavier Justo copied and took with him when he left the company.

It is also true that Mr Justo wanted to be paid for this information and that it was our client who found someone who was, or so it appeared, able and prepared to pay Mr Justo as much as US$2 million, namely the "media tycoon" Tong Kooi Ong. In the event, although our client did try to see that Mr Justo got paid as agreed, and indeed to our client's regret, no money was forthcoming from Mr Tong.

However, it is bizzare and disingenuous for you, a journalist presumably concerned with exposing corruption and getting to the truth, to turn on our client and adopt the Article's allegation that the information and evidence obtained from Mr Justo was "stolen", or the allegation that the payment she thought she had procured amounted to "a bribe".

In any event, the truly serious allegation in the Articles that, having obtained the database from Mr Justo, our client then "tampered with the documents" in order dishonestly to substantiate her (supposedly) dishonest story that a donation to Prime Minister Najib Razak had come from 1MDB funds, is entirely untrue. She has not "tampered" with any document, and has no reason to believe that any document had been "tampered with" before she received it.

PM Najib Razak's donation

The story published by Ms Rewcastle, substantially based on the information from Mr Justo was to the effect that US$1.83 billion paid to 1MDB into the PetroSaudi joint venture was largely misappropriated into bank accounts belonging to Jho Low; the purcahase (sic.) of a Jho Low owned (sic.) UBG and fraudulent payments to PetroSaudi key executives. This allegation has been substantiated by the recent formal demand by the Malaysian Central Bank, which has required 1MDB to return the money on the grounds that it was exported under false pretences. Subsequent to the PetroSaudi scandal relating to 1MDB, Sarawak Report and other news organisations have published extensive material unearthed by Malaysia's own investigative task forces set up into 1MDB (prompted by the PetroSaudi story) which relate to huge sums of money found in the Prime Minister's accounts. This information was discovered by the task forces looking into the money missing from 1MDB, as Sarawak Report and others have reported.

Ms Rewcastle published that story in good faith, in the belief that was what the evidence showed.

The OSI article
Readers directed by you to "read more" by going to the OSI article will have gone on to read (and will prospectively continue to go on to read) how, supposedly, our client was reprimanded by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission because she had dishonestly misrepresented the body's report on its investigation into the allegation that the PM took state funds from 1MDB by giving a distorted account of the report that falsely claimed that it had contained 37 charges against the PM.

This , of course, is itself a false and defamatory distortion of the true position. The MACC criticism of our client was unfounded and has now been discredited.

In any event, the MACC did not accuse Ms Rewcastle of any dishonest misrepresentation. Nor was she guilty of any such "dishonest journalism".

Serious harm

You cannot credibly dispute that publication of this deliberately damning attack on our client on your influential and apparently authoritative website by both your Malaysia Today article and the linked OSI article, both to your readers and to "search engine visitors" to the Malaysia Today article, will have caused serious harm to our client's reputation.

Our client is particularly concerned by the harm that will have been done and the further harm that must be likely from publication in the UK, her professional base, and in Malaysia, the focus of most of her professional work.

Requirements

Removal of the Malaysia Today Articles

For as long as the Malaysia Today article and its link to the OSI remains available on your website and is recoverable by Google or other internet searches, the Articles will always be likely to cause further serious harm to our client's reputation.

Please respond to us immediately on receipt of this letter and either confirm that you have or will straight away remove the Malaysia Today articles from, or block access to it on the Malaysia Today website, or explain on what basis you seek to justify continuing to publish the Articles' obviously serious defamatory and damaging allegations.

Our client reserves her right to make immediate application to the High Court for an injunction requiring removal of the Malaysia Today Article (sic.) from the website should you ignore this letter or give no adequate response justifying continued publication.

Retraction and apology
You must as soon as is practicable publish on the Malaysia Today website as a news item an unqualified apology to our client in agreed terms for publishing the Malaysian (sic.) Today Article (sic.), unequivocally retracting and acknowledging the complete falsity of any suggestion:

- that our client is a dishonest journalist, who knowingly publishes stories that she knows to be untrue;
- that she has at any point in her reports on the 1MDB affair and the corrupt payments to the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib or his family published anything that she did not sincerely believe to be true and supported by the evidence;
- that she has in her and Sarawak Report's campaigning journalism always attempted to remain independent from business and political factions and parties in Malaysia and Sarawak or that she has not honestly attempted to establish and tell the truth about the activities and conduct of those factions and parties; and
- that she has never ever been recruited by or worked with any faction or party to promote or take part in any political plot against any political figure.

This retraction and apology, to be headed "An apology to Clare Rewcastle and Sarawak Report", must appear at the top of the Home page on Malaysia Today for a period of not less than 48 hours and must thereafter remain accessible as a news item on Malaysia Today in the same way that the Malaysia Today Article (sic.) has to date been maintained on the website.

As soon as we have your agreement to publish an apology and retraction in these terms and in this manner, we will provide you with a draft, in order that you can propose any editing required so that, without altering what it says, it conforms to Malaysia Today's "house style".

Undertaking

You must give our client your written undertaking that you will not henceforth publish or cause or facilitate any publication whether by means of the Malaysia Today website or by any other means of any of the statements acknowledged to be false in the retraction and apology required by our client as set out above.

OSI
You must provide our client with as much information as you have that will enable her to identify and pursue the persons, legal and natural, who produce and publish the Open Source Investigations website and/or who wrote and publish (sic.) the OSI Article (sic.) that you have adopted in the Malaysia Today Article (sic.) and caused to be published by the READ MORE HERE link in the Malaysia Today Article (sic.)

Without restriction to the generality of this requirement, our client requires that you disclose how and with what results you contracted and communicated with these persons or were contracted by them and communicated with them when either of you sought to verify the contents of the OSI Article and/or obtain permission to reproduce it or when they contacted you to invite you to reproduce it on Malaysia Today.

Compensation and Costs

Both in token of the sincerity of your retraction and apology and in compensation for the serious injury to our client's reputation and feelings caused by these publication, you must pay a substantial and reasonable amount by way of damages, as well as meeting our clients' (sic.) legal costs in this matter.

We invite your proposals for this compensation. Obviously our client's attitude to what represents an adequate sum will depend to a large degree on your response to her claim and how adequately and promptly you meet her requirements set out above.

Funding
Both this firm and Counsel act for Ms Rewcastle in this matter on Conditional Fee Agreements that provide for staged success fees. Formal notice of funding will be served if proceedings are necessary.

Response

We must have your immediate response to our client's requirement stated above that the Malaysia Today Article (sic.) be immediately removed from the website. We repeat that our client reserves her right to make immediate application to the High Court for an injunction requiring that this happen.

The Pre-Action Protocol for Defamation requires that you provide a full response to this letter of claim as soon as reasonably possible. We see no reason why you cannot give that response within 7 days, and look forward to receiving it within that time.

The Protocol also provides you should indicate when you will provide your full response if you believe that you need longer than the 7 days we propose. If you do so believe, please let us know as soon as possible by what date you intend responding and why you cannot respond sooner.

Our client reserves the right to issue proceedings in the High Court for libel without further notice if we have not received any or any adequate response by 4pm on 21st April. Meanwhile, all our client's rights are reserved.

May we please have your earliest possible response.

Yours faithfully

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Seddons

('The Seddons-RPK Correspondence.' – Malaysia Today, April 7, 2016)

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1. DECONSTRUCTING THE SEDDONS CORRESPONDENCE
2. RELATED: THE SEDDONS-RPK CORRESPONDENCE
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4. RELATED: IS RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON COINCIDENTAL?
5. RELATED: MALAYSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION SNUBS REWCASTLE BROWN
6. RELATED: A RECORD OF UNTRUE STORIES - THE CASE OF CLARE REWCASTLE

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RELATED: KES SRC INTERNATIONAL DAN DANA RM2.6 BILLION: SPRM AKAN RESPONS ARAHAN PEGUAM NEGARA DALAM WAKTU TERDEKAT

REPORTED BY MALAYSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION

SURUHANJAYA Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) mengesahkan telah menerima kembali kertas siasatan berhubung kes SRC International dan dana RM2.6 bilion daripada Jabatan Peguam Negara hari ini.

[THE Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) confirms the return receipt of the investigation papers concerning SRC International and the RM2.6 billion donation from the Attorney-General's Office today.]

SPRM mengambil maklum arahan daripada Jabatan Peguam Negara yang memerlukan penjelasan lanjut mengenai beberapa cadangan dan tindakan yang telah dikemukakan oleh SPRM sebelum ini. Respons SPRM kepada permintaan Jabatan Peguam Negara akan dikemukakan dalam waktu terdekat.

[MACC acknowledges the order made by the Attorney-General's Office that requires further clarification about several of the suggestions and actions that had been put forward by the MACC previously. The MACC's response to the Attorney-General's Office will be issued in the nearest future.]

Sementara itu, SPRM ingin menjelaskan bahawa laporan portal berita Sarawak Report hari ini, yang mengatakan kononnya terdapat 37 syor dakwaan berasingan telah dikemukakan oleh SPRM terhadap YAB Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak melibatkan kes SRC International, adalah tidak benar.

[In the meantime, the MACC would like to clarify that the report made by news portal Sarawak Report today, that claimed that there were supposedly 37 separate recommendations of charges brought forward by the MACC to the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak involving SRC International as untrue.]

('Kes SRC International dan Dana RM2.6 billion: SPRM akan respons arahan Peguam Negara dalam waktu terdekat.' – MACC, January 18, 2016)

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1. DECONSTRUCTING THE SEDDONS CORRESPONDENCE
2. RELATED: THE SEDDONS-RPK CORRESPONDENCE
3. RELATED: KES SRC INTERNATIONAL DAN DANA RM2.6 BILLION: SPRM AKAN RESPONS ARAHAN PEGUAM NEGARA DALAM WAKTU TERDEKAT
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5. RELATED: MALAYSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION SNUBS REWCASTLE BROWN
6. RELATED: A RECORD OF UNTRUE STORIES - THE CASE OF CLARE REWCASTLE

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RELATED: IS RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON COINCIDENTAL?

First public appearance of Taib’s son, Sulaiman, has spawned rumours of him standing in Balingian.

REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

Prodigal son Sulaiman Taib’s unexpected presence on Friday to welcome his father Taib Mahmud’s return from Kuala Lumpur as Sarawak’s new Governor has fired up the rumour mill here.

Speculations are divided over whether his return was linked to Balingian state seat which now sees a by-election, or the Taib business empire.

Taib had to step down from the Balingian seat after assuming the Governor’s post.

Of the two sons – the other is Mahmud Bekir – Sulaiman was his father’s ‘chosen one’ until he went AWOL in 2010 following his mother’s death.

At the time Sulaiman was first time MP of Kota Samarahan, a seat which he won easily in the 2008 general election beating PKR’s Hussain Abang Apok by a 11,411 vote majority.

He was subsequently appointed deputy tourism minister under the then prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and was retained in the post by his successor, Najib Tun Razak.

In December 2009 Sulaiman resigned from the post,citing personal reasons. Taib had once said that Sulaiman was disturbed by his mother Laila’s death in April 2009.

During Sulaiman’s absence, the Kota Samarahan seat was look after by his uncle Ali Mahmud and other senior PBB leaders.

In last year’s general election PBB dropped Sulaiman and fielded former local government official Rubiah Wang who went on to retain the seat.

Sulaiman’s surprising appearance on Friday night at Kuching International Airport alongside his siblings Mahmud, Jamilah and Hanifah to welcome his father as such did not go unnoticed, especially since he was not present at his father’s wedding in January and official birthday celebrations in Mukah four months ago.

Was it coincidental then that on Saturday national news agency Bernama reported that there was talk that the party was closely guarding the name of another possible candidate for Balingian?

Will it be Sulaiman?

Speculations, though divided, are rife that Sulaiman’s return is to persist with the Ya’kub political dynasty which began with Sarawak third governor Rahman Yaakub, Taib’s uncle.

Mahmud, his elder brother who was speculated as a possible candidate, has however said that he “would prefer to concentrate on business first”. Many have attributed this to his ongoing divorce settlement issues.

Sulaiman, 45, meanwhile is said to be intelligent and loving life in the fast lane. He is reportedly more interested in cars than politics. He is considered as ‘the most playful’ of the Taib offspring and as the one who never take things or life seriously.

He was once on the board of directors of Cahya Mata Sarawak(CMS), a corporation closely linked with Taib, and also the chairman of RHB Bank, before he was purportedly asked by Bank Negara Malaysia to leave because his lack of commitment.

Sulaiman also had a messy separation with his wife, Anisa Hamidah Chan, who incidentally is the daughter of ex-deputy chief minister and SUPP president George Chan.

Could Sulaiman be the pro-longer of the Ya’akub political dynasty as suggested by some at the moment?

Most likely, the so-called ‘Ya’akub political dynasty’ will die a natural death, unlike those of the Lims, Anwars, Razaks and Jaafar in Malaya.

But whatever the agenda, what is almost certain is that his reemergence is not a twist of fate, especially since his father, who is now the Governor, must swiftly relinquish his business stakes.

('Is return of the prodigal son coincidental?' – Free Malaysia Today, March 3, 2014)

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2. RELATED: THE SEDDONS-RPK CORRESPONDENCE
3. RELATED: KES SRC INTERNATIONAL DAN DANA RM2.6 BILLION: SPRM AKAN RESPONS ARAHAN PEGUAM NEGARA DALAM WAKTU TERDEKAT
4. RELATED: IS RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON COINCIDENTAL?
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6. RELATED: A RECORD OF UNTRUE STORIES - THE CASE OF CLARE REWCASTLE

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Clare Rewcastle Brown’s credibility in Malaysian circles is already at a low point, with Anwar Ibrahim referring to her as his “media advisor” and with Rewcastle asking for Anwar’s permission before writing stories on her blog.

REPORTED BY OPEN SOURCE INVESTIGATION

Self-styled “journalist” Clare Rewcastle Brown has again been caught out for her dishonesty, this time by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). The powerful and respected agency officially found Rewcastle Brown “incorrect”.

The façade of a conspiracy

As exposed by OSI previously, British-based blogger Clare Rewcastle Brown is the public face of the conspiracy plot to remove Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. The billionaire Francis Yeoh, the former PM Mohammad Mahathir, the media tycoon Tong Kooi Ong and the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took part in the plot.

Rewcastle Brown conspired to oust Najib Razak, confided her plan to a convicted criminal – “She [Clare] said she wanted to bring down the Prime Minister, Najib Razak” (Xavier Justo, Confession 29 June 2015)”; offered a $2million bribe for stolen data; assisted the criminal in his attempt to launder the $2million; selectively picked, forged and released information to portray legal yet complex financial transactions as shady deals.

Clare Rewcastle Brown’s credibility in Malaysian circles is already at a low point, with Anwar Ibrahim referring to her as his “media advisor” and with Rewcastle asking for Anwar’s permission before writing stories on her blog.

Rewcastle’s allegations dismissed

Rewcastle Brown developed an obsession with the Malaysian PM. She believes that what she is doing is “to change the destiny of one country” (WhatsApp, 19 March 2015). Rewcastle wants to celebrate with alcohol when “Najib is done” (WhatsApp, 16 June 2015).

Clare returned to her “oust Najib” crusade again this week. In her Sarawak Report on 17 January, she publicly announced that the MACC’s investigation was finished and submitted to the Attorney General, resulting in a whopping 37 separate charges against the Prime Minister.

“The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has completed its investigation into the matter and placed a dossier on Apandi’s desk, which according to several sources, contains no less than 37 separate charges against Najib.”

In case the reader missed how many charges there were, Clare repeated her accusation.

“On top of those 37 charges relating to SRC International...”

OSI already revealed that Rewcastle Brown forged the data and released a fabricated story. The $2 million story failed to provide proof of wrongdoing. So that is why Rewcastle and her associates tried to use MACC, hoping that the mention of the respected institution would bring some credibility to their campaign. It was a desperate attempt to keep the story going and it was wrong.

So wrong in fact that the MACC promptly released a statement, singling out the “Sawarak Report” and stating that Rewcastle’s “claim that there are 37 separate allegations/recommendations submitted by the commission against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak involving SRC International, is incorrect.”

http://www.sprm.gov.my/

Actually MACC press release contradicts everything Rewcastle Brown said. Not only that there are no "charges against Najib”, but it is also false that “MACC has completed its investigation”. According to MACC, the agency “sent back the probe received from the Attorney General”, Mohamed Apandi Ali. The Attorney General needs “further clarification” and MACC will submit a response “in the near future”.

A failed journalist after all

It is a very serious matter when a significant government body, like the [MACC], has to publicly reprimand a “journalist” for being “incorrect”.

This is not the first time Clare Rewcastle Brown has been “incorrect”. She has a very long and shameful history of being “incorrect” when it comes to truth.

Back in 2010, Rewcastle Brown published a story claiming the son of then Chief Minister of Sarawak had AIDS.

“Kuching is once again awash with rumours about the health of the ‘heir apparent’, the Chief Minister’s son Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib… The failure to explain the situation is giving unfortunate credence to the widespread and powerful rumours that the MP may be suffering from a self-inflicted, lifestyle disease.” (Sarawak Report, 19 October 2010)

http://www.sarawakreport.org/

But this was “incorrect”. Sulaiman Taib was not ill. He had withdrawn from public life because of grief over the death of his mother.

In 2011 Rewcastle Brown published a story claiming then Chief Minister of Sarawak had stashed state funds in Swiss bank accounts.

“Taib is believed to have invested a great deal in the once secretive Swiss banks”. (Sarawak Report, 12 May 2011)

http://www.sarawakreport.org/

But this too was “incorrect”. Indeed, the former Chief Minister of Sarawak didn’t even have any bank accounts in Switzerland.

In 2013, Rewcastle Brown published a story claiming the Prime Minister of Malaysia had suffered a stroke.

“Word is seeping out that the Prime Minister of Malaysia suffered a ‘minor stroke’ over the weekend…perhaps the pressure has started to tell.” (Sarawak Report, 5 January 2013).

http://www.sarawakreport.org/

But – yet again – Clare Rewcastle was “incorrect”. On the day he had supposedly suffered a stroke, the Prime Minister of Malaysia had in fact attended a dinner for armed forces veterans.

Then in 2013 Rewcastle Brown published a story claiming the son of then Chief Minister of Sarawak had money stashed in overseas bank accounts.

“Testimony, which has also been corroborated to Sarawak Report by separate investigators, was that [Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib – son of Chief Minister of Sarawak] has personal accounts in Canada, the US, the Caribbean, France, Monaco, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Switzerland.” (Sarawak Report, 14 January 2013)

http://www.sarawakreport.org/

To be consistent, Clare Rewcastle was “incorrect”. The allegations were false. Clare Rewcastle was relying on a Canadian forger – Cullen Johnson – now serving time in jail.
When it comes to Malaysian politics, it is worth asking “is that the truth, or did you hear it from Clare Rewcastle Brown?”

('Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Snubs Rewcastle Brown.' – Open Source Investigation, January 20, 2016)

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1. DECONSTRUCTING THE SEDDONS CORRESPONDENCE
2. RELATED: THE SEDDONS-RPK CORRESPONDENCE
3. RELATED: KES SRC INTERNATIONAL DAN DANA RM2.6 BILLION: SPRM AKAN RESPONS ARAHAN PEGUAM NEGARA DALAM WAKTU TERDEKAT
4. RELATED: IS RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON COINCIDENTAL?
5. RELATED: MALAYSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION SNUBS REWCASTLE BROWN
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RELATED: A RECORD OF UNTRUE STORIES - THE CASE OF CLARE REWCASTLE

REPORTED BY OPEN SOURCE INVESTIGATION

On Tuesday, 26 January 2016, the Malaysian Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali dismissed as false allegations that a donation to PM Najib Razak had come from state fund 1MDB. In fact, the investigation concluded it had come from the Saudi Royal family. The false allegation had been used as the basis for a plot to oust the democratically-elected Malaysian PM and were initially promoted by Clare Rewcastle Brown.

The Attorney-General’s decision came a week after the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had publicly criticised the same Clare Rewcastle Brown for publishing false information.

UK-based blogger Clare Rewcastle Brown has been the public face of the campaign to oust Najib, a fact she has admitted in private conversations. Revelations and further admissions that she offered $2million for stolen data, which was edited and published on her website, have further exposed her motivations. But who is she really?

Sarawak Report’s long and shameful history of lying

Born in the former British Crown Colony of Sarawak, Clare Rewcastle Brown moved to UK at a young age. She tried to become a journalist at the BBC and ITV but failed after running stories she knew not to be true.

"An occasional column devoted to cross-media plugs masquerading as news."

Carlton Television, still red-faced after its hard-hitting drug smuggling expose The Connection was revealed to be a fake, has cocked-up again.
A London Today "investigation" at the end of June suggested that proxy votes for the May local elections had been misused, to the extent that Labour had been deprived of victory in many wards.
Two women claimed their votes for the May local elections were given by proxy without their knowledge. In fact both had received letters from the returning officer, acknowledging receipt of their request to vote by proxy and telling them how to cancel if they changed their minds.
London Today's reporter Clare Rewcastle talked of "serious question marks" over the way Lib Dem votes were won and "something fishy" going on. Resident Abdur Rahim Mulla said on the programme he didn't know how someone "got the right to make a proxy vote, so he told Rewcastle to spike his contribution – yet it still went on air.
All political parties were given a full list of proxy votes before the elections – not mentioned. Out of 970 proxy votes in Hackney, 540 were in wards where there was no Lib Dem candidate – not mentioned.
Never mind the lack of facts – feel the sensation!

– Private Eye Magazine, Issue 958, September 4, 1998

After that, she became a low level blogger, founding, in 2010, sarawakreport.org.

Sarawak Report was initially set up in 2010 to bring down Tun Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, then Sarawak Chief Minister. Rewcastle and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim established what would become a long-standing relationship – it was with Anwar’s daughter that she first offered $2million for the stolen data – and started a campaign against Taib.

In October 2010, Rewcastle Brown published a story claiming Taib’s son had AIDS. (http://www.sarawakreport.org/2010/10/where-is-sulaiman/)

This was later proved wrong, with Sulaiman Taib not ill. But withdrawing from public life because of grief over the death of his mother. http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/03/03/is-return-of-the-prodigal-son-coincidental/

In May 2011, Rewcastle Brown published a story claiming then Chief Minister of Sarawak had stashed state funds in Swiss bank accounts. (http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/ and http://www.sarawakreport.org/)

The turth? Taib didn’t even have any bank accounts in Switzerland.

Sarawakreport (sic.) posts were proved untrue and the campaign to bring Taib down failed. But Rewcastle Brown carried on with her false stories. It was Najib Razak’s turn to become the target after she was recruited by a political campaign to oust Razak Najib.

It was about overthrowing the democratically-elected PM

In the last weeks OSI has revealed Rewcastle Brown’s role in the plot to oust PM Najib Razak.

Francis Yeoh, one of Malaysia’s wealthiest men, by his own admission owes his success to favourable treatment by the former PM Mohamad Mahathir. http://www.malaysia-today.net/ (Bloomberg Business, 4 September 2011), also see https://www.youtube.com/

Since PM Najib Razak has come to office, Yeoh’s business has struggled. Revelations detailed how Yeoh teamed up with businessmen holding similar grievances against the current Malaysian Prime Minister, including media tycoon Tong Kooi Ong, a close friend and associate in a plot to oust Najib Razak.

Clare Rewcastle was recruited. It was the failed journalist turned blogger who offered the $2million bribe for the stolen data; “I have offered them [Malaysian businessmen] to buy 30% of my company. Then I will take the risk…a dodgy transaction but I will do it”. (Clare Rewcastle, WhatsApp Conversation, 18 May 2015).

She then assisted the Swiss national Xavier Justo, who stole the documents, in his attempt to launder the $2million: “seems to be on its way to my company at least. Then we can start to get it to you” (Clare Rewcastle, WhatsApp Conversation, 1 June 2015) and she then received and retained the stolen data and tampered with the documents received from Justo. http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/ .

They themselves admitted the campaign was not about 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the state owned investment fund whose advisory board is headed by the PM. It was about overthrowing Najib Razak’s government. “She [Clare] said she wanted to bring down the Prime Minister, Najib Razak” (Xavier Justo, Confession 29 June 2015)”. Tong admitted it was “an internal Malaysian matter only” (Xavier Justo, Confession 26 June 2015)

According to reports, the plot was well-funded, with as much as $140million shelled out in worldwide media campaign. http://www.malaysia-today.net/the-rm2-billion-donation-mahathir-kept-a-secret-from-you/

Rewcastle’s nervousness about the “oust Najib” campaign’s results

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), the government agency that investigates and prosecutes corruption in the public and private sectors, conducted an inquiry into 1MDB scandal.

On 31 December 2015, MACC submitted the investigation papers to the Malaysian Attorney-General. The Attorney General required further explanation on some of the suggestions and actions proposed by the MACC and sent back the probe. A few days ago, MACC responded to the Attorney General’s queries.

As the judicial investigation came to an end, Clare Rewcastle Brown and her associates have become increasingly nervous about the outcome of their campaign. On 17 January 2016, they announced on Sarawakreport that MACC’s investigation “contains no less than 37 separate charges against Najib”. As already been shown on OSI, this was just another distortion. MACC promptly released a statement, publicly reprimanding Rewcastle for being “incorrect”.
http://www.sprm.gov.my/images/KES-SRC-INTERNATIONAL-DAN-DANA-R-2.6-BILION-SPRM-AKAN-RESPONS-ARAHAN-PEGUAM-NEGARA-DALAM-WAKTU-TERDEKAT.pdf

Caught out for her dishonesty again

Based on MACC investigation, Malaysia’s Attorney General, Mohamed Apandi Ali, has cleared Prime Minister Najib Razak of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal. No crime was committed by the Prime Minister Najib Razak. What about the plotters and their media accomplice, Clare Rewcastle Brown? Their illegal actions and the motives behind them have been revealed. All the accusations on the donation were proved to be completely false and the campaign was left in tatters.

But having spent so much money on the political campaign and the motivation of the plotters’ recruited blogger, more falsehoods and deliberately misleading stories are likely from Clare Rewcastle.