BREAKING / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN TALKS BACK ABOUT HER CASE IN LONDON

THE NINE QUESTIONS Panel notes with interest Clare Rewcastle Brown's strange attempt at a sorry excuse for a media spin to dig herself out of the hole she is digging herself ever deeper into.

Below, we will reproduce her response to the recent news concerning her alleged failure to submit her defence before the 4.00 pm deadline on August 30, 2017.

The NINE QUESTIONS Panel will interject the article with comments shown in grey.

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SARAWAK REPORT EDITOR TIGHT-LIPPED ON DEFENCE AGAINST HADI'S SUIT

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“I will not reply in detail at this point, as my lawyers are handling this matter.” However, Rewcastle-Brown said the blog post was a “malicious and highly inaccurate” spin and NST should not have republished its claims as though the blog is an accurate or reliable source of information.

REPORTED BY MALAYSIAKINI via MALAYSIA CHRONICLE

Whistleblower site Sarawak Report’s editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown is tight-lipped regarding her defence against PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s defamation suit against her.

“I will not reply in detail at this point, as my lawyers are handling this matter,” she told Malaysiakini today via email when queried on the matter, following reports purporting that she failed to file her defence on time. [The NINE QUESTIONS Panel notes with interest the contradictory nature of this statement of reservation from commenting, which is immediately followed by the comment she supposedly wasn't intending to make. This is typical of the forked nature of any conversations involving Clare Brown.]

On August 31, New Straits Times (NST) quoted a blog claiming that Rewcastle-Brown had failed to file her defence by 4pm on August 30 (UK time) and that this is supposedly a violation of an August 2 court order.

The blog reportedly claimed that Rewcastle-Brown’s lawyers would likely file for an extension in October, but the failure would cause alarm to Pakatan Harapan politicians who had demonised Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak based on her reports.

However, Rewcastle-Brown said the blog post was a “malicious and highly inaccurate” spin and NST should not have republished its claims as though the blog is an accurate or reliable source of information.

“There are very real concerns about the release and then deliberate distortion of information relating to the standard management of this case for political propaganda purposes in Malaysia, with the clear purpose of giving false impressions, even before the response to Mr Hadi’s claims have been laid before the court,” she added. 

She also noted that NST had quoted the blog claiming that US sources had purportedly confirmed that Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad had been channelling “millions” into her bank account to topple Najib.

“This is an extremely serious, libellous and wholly untrue accusation of the sort that I have become used to from various anonymous and unattributed fringe blogs, but rarely from an authored article in a mainstream newspaper. Frankly, I am shocked,” she said of the allegation. [Better to be at the fringe than to be a fraud. At this point in the article, we wonder why aren't these statements made through Clare Rewcastle Brown's lawyers, just as she said that they will be handling "this matter" - whether that means in terms of making public statements, or the case matter itself. Either way, it is even stranger still why does Clare Brown refuse to confirm - whether through Sarawak Report, her media friends, or even through her lawyers - that her defence was entered within the stipulated time? A simple statement to that effect would dispel and avoid any unnecessary doubt without actually revealing the contents of the defence. But we are seeing nothing of the sort. We are inclined to believe that Raggie Jessy/The Third Force is telling the truth concerning Clare's alleged failure to provide her defence to the court until she or her lawyer can issue an unequivocal confirmation of the timely submission of her defence. Until that happens, she sounds like she is diverting the matter into another conspiracy theory to preoccupy whatever fanbase she may have left so that they will remain loyal to the end, and perhaps not demand that she return the donation money she gleefully fleeced from her supporters knowing full well that she is fraudulent - Clare Rewcastle Brown is welcome to sue us over this statement - if she dares.]

Hadi is suing Rewcastle-Brown over her allegations that he had received RM90 million.

('Sarawak Report Editor Tight-Lipped on Defence Against Hadi.' – Malaysiakini via Malaysia Chronicle, September 2, 2017)

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CONCLUSION

Clare Rewcastle Brown knows that she is making this public response out of desperation to convince the public that Sarawak Report truly is telling the truth, when the opposite is true.

As the clock ticks, this erratic and contradictory statement made without going through her lawyers shows that there is a severe disconnect between what she knows she should and shouldn't do, and what she ends up doing - and wrongly at that - out of desperation and panic.

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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The NINE QUESTIONS Blog will return with more facts.

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FOCUS / EVEN RJ/TTF IS RAISING THE ISSUE OF DONATIONS MADE TO CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S COURT BATTLE AND ITS MORAL CONTRADICTION

THE NINE QUESTIONS Panel is again reiterating that Clare Rewcastle Brown/Sarawak Report should return the money collected from the public in the event that she and her dungheap of a publication loses the case against her in London. 

She should be made to pay for whatever it is that she should be responsible for and not extract the responsibility from the public's goodwill. 

Goodwill which, in the highly likely event that she loses, will dissipate faster than one can say, 'FRAUD!'.

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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2. RELATED: IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION, CLAIM NO. HQ17M01386
3. RELATED: CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S INABILITY TO SHOW PROOF TO COURT BRINGS INTO QUESTION SHOULD SHE RETURN THE MONEY COLLECTED TO DEFEND HER CASE

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CLARE REWCASTLE'S DONORS ACTUALLY GIVING HADI MONEY
Pakatuns are going to keep enriching Hadi and his lawyers, as Ms. Rewcastle is bent on delaying the trial past the 14^th general election (GE14) just to prevent Malaysians from discovering what I have been saying all this while – that all the evidences she claims to possess are nothing short of fabrications wrapped around conjectures and hearsay, none of which are substantiated, none of which hold in the court of law.

REPORTED BY RAGGIE JESSY/THE THIRD FORCE

Clare Rewcastle Brown has taken you guys for a jolly good ride.

Last Thursday, the disgraced British journalist failed to secure an extension from a London Court in a defamation suit brought against her by PAS president Dato’ Seri Abdul Hadi Awang. The suit pertains allegations that Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak solicited political favours from Hadi by bribing the latter RM90 million.

The court’s decision followed Ms. Rewcastle’s repeated failure to file and serve her defense right up to the 30^th of August 2017, a deadline stipulated within a court order dated the 2^nd of August 2017 (see #2 below). Ironically, this is the same lady who spent close to two years telling Malaysians that she had truckloads of “smoking gun evidences” to prove the Prime Minister of Malaysia was corrupt and criminally perverse.

But the evidence has yet to surface. 

CURRENT / 1MDB SETTLES DEBT WITH IPIC, WSJ TONES DOWN TO SAVE FACE, BUT STILL MISLEADS

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2. RELATED: 1MDB MAKES SECOND PAYMENT TO IPIC

3. RELATED: 1MDB: SECOND TRANCHE FULLY PAID TO IPIC

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1MDB MAKES PAYMENT TO RESTORE FAITH IN MALAYSIA STATE SECURITIES

REPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIAN

(WSJ), AUGUST 31, 2017 –

Malaysia’s troubled state-investment fund 1Malaysia Development, or 1MDB, said on Wednesday it had paid the second part of a missed instalment to Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company. 

While 1MDB is under pressure and being wound up, the payment could alleviate some concerns about Malaysian state securities for foreign investors, who own a significant share of government bonds in Malaysia. 

Allegations of fraud involving 1MDB, which is under investigation in half a dozen countries, have already spooked investors by weighing on the country’s currency.

FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S INABILITY TO SHOW PROOF TO COURT BRINGS INTO QUESTION SHOULD SHE RETURN THE MONEY COLLECTED TO DEFEND HER CASE

Sarawak Report's Clare Rewcastle Brown had famously collected £33, 513 to fund her defence in the London High Court. 

The legal suit initiated by PAS President YB Abdul Hadi Awang is revealing that Clare is having problems providing the necessary evidence to back her allegations, famously regaled through her aforementioned notoriously fake news mouthpiece. 

With this latest development in light, let's revisit what was written by Sarawak Report in order to solicit money through the portal Crowd Justice, and the NINE QUESTIONS Blog will let the readers decide whether such monies were well-spent, justified and whether those monies should be returned to the donors should Clare Rewcastle Brown be found guilty.

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DEFEND SARAWAK REPORT

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Sarawak Report is being sued by PAS, the Islamic Party of Malaysia. We believe we have a strong case and need to stand up to the big money that appears to be flowing into their action.

BY SARAWAK REPORT

For the past seven years Sarawak Report has detailed the consequences of politcal (sic) corruption in Malaysia on the environment, civil liberties and the prosperity of the nation.  We have worked on this project as a voluntary not for profit commitment.   

It was our work that exposed what has become the world's largest kleptocracy scandal, involving up to $7 billion dollars stolen from the development fund 1MDB. 

Numerous banks have been already held to account and 15th June the US Dept of Justice issued a third court order for the sequestration of over $1.5 billion in assets bought with money stolen by 1MDB.   

The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, has admitted he used much of this money to buy political support and to win the last election - although he claims that the $681 million that went into his own accounts came from a mystery Saudi Royal donor and not 1MDB as detailed by the joint US, Swiss, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, UK, Hong Kong and Luxembourg investigations into the scandal.Sarawak Report has led on this massive international scandal all the way, revealing story after story both on the crime itself and the distribution of all the proceeds.   

There have been numerous legal threats by various players, but so far none have sued us in the face of overwhelming evidence. [{SR} didn’t {respond to the letters} because the extremely recalcitrant and preponderant Ms. Rewcastle ignored the letters and told the judge that she received dozens of such letters, none of which ended in court battles. Earlier today, she asked the judge to grant her an extension to submit her case against Hadi but it was refused." – The Third Force] However,  Malaysia's Islamic party PAS has now taken exception to being caught up in the scandal, having broken with the opposition alliance in order to collaborate with the Prime Minister's own BN alliance at the very height of the exposures of theft from the development fund. 

Sarawak Report pointed out that the PM distributes money to gain political support and that considerable largesse was noted to have been passing from his administration for the first time into PAS during this very period of intense scandal, at which point a section of the leadership chose to rupture its links with the opposition and later work with Najib instead - splitting the party's own leadership and following in the process. PAS's President Hadi has said he views our comments as a personal attack on his reputation in the UK, yet he is seeking to avoid placing security of costs in the UK court before we file our defence. 

This forces us to pay for expensive legal support to file that defence, money we have little hope of retrieving, whether or not he continues with his case. We believe this is a politically motivated attack and that the people involved are hoping we will settle the action rather than place a defence.  They will then use that outcome, backed by BN's powerful propaganda machine to seek to discredit us.  Please help us fight this case in order to counter this the latest of so many attempts to discredit our work.

('Defend Sarawak Report.' – June 2017)

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One more question: Is this type of donation taxable, and were there any declarations made to honour it by Clare Rewcastle Brown?

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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The NINE QUESTIONS Blog will return with more facts.

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BREAKING / THE "WOLVES" ARE BITING BACK AS THE DOJ BALKS ON PROCEEDING WITH 1MDB CASE

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2. RELATED: RED GRANITE OPPOSES DELAY IN DOJ SUITS OVER 1MDB-LINKED ASSETS
3. RELATED: RED GRANITE OPPOSES DOJ'S PROPOSED PAUSE ON 1MDB SUITS

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FEDS FACE RESISTANCE IN BID TO DELAY 1MDB FORFEITURE CASES FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

Schwartz adds that the government's request is "without precedent" and a violation of his clients' due process rights. 

REPORTED BY THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

The financier of Wolf of Wall Street and others whose assets have been tied up as part of a U.S. government crackdown on foreign corruption are slamming a proposed delay in the 1MDB forfeiture cases.

Earlier this month, federal prosecutors explained the need to pause civil litigation. With claims being made on assets including Hollywood films, a catalogue of EMI songs, a Picasso painting once given to Leonardo DiCaprio, real estate in Beverly Hills, London and New York, and more, the feds sought permission to prioritize their ongoing criminal investigation into an alleged conspiracy to launder money misappropriated from a Malaysian public fund.

Prosecutors wrote that a stay is warranted "because proceeding with civil discovery will have an obvious adverse effect on the related criminal investigation.... Any disclosures by the government beyond those in the complaint will reveal details of the underlying investigation to which the potential targets and subjects are not entitled."

BREAKING / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN OF SARAWAK REPORT FAILS TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE IN LONDON COURT; MISSES 4.00 PM DEADLINE

And it finally unravels - Clare Rewcastle Brown's house of cards begins to tumble down, one card at a time. So, grab more popcorn because this whole charade is about to get so real, all our heads will start spinning from the thrill. Here is where the truly interesting part of this saga spanning over a decade begins.

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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2. RELATED: IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, QUEENS BENCH DIVISION, CLAIM NO. HQ17M01386
3. RELATED: CLARE BROWN FAILS TO FURNISH EVIDENCE IN LONDON COURT OVER BRIBERY CLAIM

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SARAWAK REPORT FAILS TO MEET 4.00 PM DEADLINE

As a result, the Sarawak Report Chief Editor will now have to return to court in October, where it is likely that her counsel will make another attempt to seek an extension. Nonetheless, today’s development is set to trigger an alarm within the Mahathir-led Malaysian opposition coalition that has painstakingly demonised Najib based on her articles.

REPORTED BY THE THIRD FORCE

At 4.00pm United Kingdom (UK) time, Sarawak Report’s Chief Editor, Clare Rewcastle Brown, failed to furnish a London Court with evidence that Malaysian premier Najib Razak bribed PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang RM90 million. Her failure to do so violates a Court Order dated 2nd August 2017 (see below) that required her to file and serve her defence by the stipulated date.

To recap, and in short, Clare is being sued over a Sarawak Report editorial alleging that Najib bribed Hadi RM90 million to solicit political favours from the latter. The PAS president asked his United Kingdom (UK) based lawyers to send her three letters demanding that she apologise for the false allegation but the apology never came.