BREAKING / SR V RPK: RPK CONCEDES TO SR; CLARE'S FANS CHEER

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2. RELATED: CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN

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RAJA PETRA'S BLOG RETRACTS ANTI-CLARE ARTICLE, EXPRESSES REGRET

REPORTED BY MALAYSIAKINI

Malaysia-Today.net, a blog owned by blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin, has retracted an article discrediting Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown, who had written extensively about the multi-billion ringgit deposits received by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and 1MDB.

The article, titled 'A Record of Untrue Stories - The Case of Clare Rewcastle', also carried a picture of Rewcastle-Brown with the caption, 'A fraudulent journalist'.

In Malaysia Today's statement of regret published on its website yesterday, the portal noted that the article made a number of allegations against Rewcastle-Brown, who had complained that they were untrue.

"We did not write the article and were not involved in its writing and we do not have any relationship with its authors.

FOCUS / SR V RPK: SEDDONS LETTER REVEALS MORE THAN REWCASTLE INTENDED

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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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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.