CURRENT / JUSTO V TONG & CO.: SET TO REVEAL THE BROWN CONNECTION; REWCASTLE BUYS TIME

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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

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. 

CURRENT / JUSTO V TONG & CO.: PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE HELD

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PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE HELD BETWEEN JUSTO'S AND TONG'S LAWYERS

Justo is suing Tong and Group Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of The Edge Ho Kay Tat and founder-editor of the Sarawak Report Clare Rewcastle Brown for damages.

REPORTED BY BERNAMA

SINGAPORE, April 13, 2016– 

A pre-trial conference between lawyers representing Xavier Andre Justo and Datuk Tong Kooi Ong was held in chambers at the Singapore Supreme Court this morning.

Damodara Hazra LLP appeared for the Swiss national Justo while David Lim & Partners LLP represented Tong, owner of The Edge Media Group, at the conference before

Assistant Registrar Ho Yee Tien Delphine.

Suresh Damodara, lawyer for the 48-year-old former employee of PetroSaudi International, and Tong's counsel Doris Chia declined to comment.

Justo is suing Tong and Group Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of The Edge Ho Kay Tat and founder-editor of the Sarawak Report Clare Rewcastle Brown for damages.

Ho and Rewcastle Brown were unrepresented.

BREAKING / JUSTO LAUNCHES HIS SINGAPORE ASSAULT

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1MDB LEAK DEAL: EX-PETROSAUDI EXEC SUES THE EDGE OWNER IN SINGAPORE COURT

He also cited WhatsApp exchanges between Mr Tong, two other people and himself as evidence, as well as meetings in Bangkok and Singapore between himself and Mr Tong and/or others. These allegedly included two meetings with Ms Clare Rewcastle-Brown, the owner and editor of The Sarawak Report, in a Bangkok hotel in 2014.

REPORTED BY THE STRAITS TIMES OF SINGAPORE

Details of the alleged deal behind the leaks that spawned claims about the misappropriation of billions at a Malaysian state investment firm linked to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak may well unravel in the High Court in Singapore.

Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo, the man allegedly behind the leaks, is suing the owner of Malaysia's The Edge media group Tong Kooi Ong and two others for damages.

Justo claims that he handed over two data storage drives in Mr Tong's presence at a Fullerton Hotel meeting in February last year in return for US$2 million (S$2.7 million) - money which he never received. 

He wants the items - which contain data about global oil services firm PetroSaudi and its business partner 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) - to be returned and for any copies to be destroyed, according to court documents filed last November.

BREAKING / SR VS RPK?

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RAJA PETRA: MAHATHIR AND SARAWAK REPORT TRYING TO SILENCE ME
He vowed not to back down, and defiantly wrote: “Do your worst”. 

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Raja Petra Kamarudin has accused Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown and the anti-Najib forces around former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad of attempting to silence him for life through a court order and, at worst, commit him to jail. 

He wrote today that he had been sent a legal notice from Sarawak Report to take down all articles about Clare Rewcastle-Brown and Sarawak Report published at Malaysia Today and to publish an apology drafted by them. 

CURRENT / THE SLOW, DELIBERATE DEFEAT OF THE 2015 MALAYSIAN COUP D'ETAT

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LIKE IT OR NOT, NAJIB WINS THIS ROUND

Despite ongoing international probes into 1MDB, it is likely that the Opposition has been outplayed.

REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

by Scott Ng

The release of the Public Accounts Committee report on the 1MDB scandal has been trumpeted as sweet vindication for our Prime Minister. 

For the better part of the past 12 months, Najib Razak has been judged in the court of public opinion as a dictator, a perpetrator of grand corruption, an accessory to murder and even a coward. There have been videos of football fans belting out songs that call for his resignation, art works depicting him as a clown and even a case of someone screaming a profanity at him as he made his way through a crowd. 

These have all instilled a belligerent mood amongst the rakyat, and the PAC report is not likely to silence his most ardent detractors. However, even with the investigations in Hong Kong, Switzerland, the United States and Singapore continuing, it is likely that the PM has won this round.