CURRENT / PAS AND KHALID IBRAHIM SATISFIED WITH ARUL KANDA'S EXPLANATION ON 1MDB RATIONALISATION, PAKATAN HIVE OF SPIN DOCTORS SET AFRENZY

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2. RELATED: 1MDB RATIONALISATION GOING SMOOTHLY: KHALID

3. RELATED: TAN SRI KHALID IBRAHIM ON THE 1MDB RATIONALISATION AND RESTRUCTURING EXERCISE

4. RELATED: NAJIB PRAISES PAS' ACCEPTANCE OF 1MDB EXPLANATION, EYES 'CHANGE' IN STATE

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PAS SATISFIED WITH 1MDB EXPLANATION BY ARUL KANDA

1MDB was thrust into the limelight recently when a US$602.72 million (RM2.58 billion) payment, which was part of its settlement agreement with Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), was delayed.

REPORTED BY NEW STRAITS TIMES

KUALA LUMPUR, AUGUST 7, 2017 –

PAS has given the thumbs-up to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officer Arul Kanda Kandasamy after a meeting with him today.

PAS deputy president Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man was reported by online news portals as saying that Arul Kanda’s explanation on the debt incurred by 1MDB and its debt rationalisation plan was “satisfactory.”

Arul Kanda, who was one of the guests at a PAS roundtable discussion on 1MDB held in Ampang, spoke for more than two hours to Tuan Ibrahim and members of the Pas central working committee.

Also present were former Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, and several academicians from public universities.

FOCUS / ECO-GUNS FOR HIRE?: CORRUPTION WATCHERS REVEAL POSSIBLE STRONG LINKS BETWEEN CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN, BMF AND SWISS TIMBER COMPANY

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2. RELATED:  EXCLUSIVE: CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN – HALF A MILLION REASONS WHY

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CORRUPTION AT ITS WORST: ANTI-CORRUPTION HERO CLARE REWCASTLE MADE MARIONETTE FOR BIG MONEY?

Exclusive: British blogger and nature advocate, Clare Rewcastle Brown who dedicated her life work to battle corruption and saving the forests of Malaysia, is being sponsored by a wood exporting Swiss tycoon. 

REPORTED BY CORRUPTION WATCHERS 

According to new evidence, recently presented to Corruption Watchers by our sources, for the last few years, hundreds of thousands of euros were secretly channeled into Brown's business bank account, with the mysterious donor being Swiss billionaire Martin O. Pestalozzi. 

What does this magnate from Switzerland have to do with a London based freelance journalist who protects nature?   

Clare Rewcastle Brown is probably known best for her belligerent coverage of the deforestation phenomenon in Malaysia over the pages of her blog, Sarawak Report. Throughout the years she has revealed countless occurrences of corruption and misconduct, fighting for the environment and for justice. Another "quality" Brown is well-known for is her a total and utter vagueness surrounding her funding sources, the shocking revelations now clarify the reason behind this ambiguity.   

  

The perturbing new evidence reveals that Pestalozzi himself is the co-founder and owner of an international company exporting the tropical precious wood called Teak. Pestalozzi's company's not-so-hidden goal is obtaining monopoly over the global Teak market, or in their words: "become [one] of the preferred suppliers of manufacturers around the world" (according to our source, the majority of the blog's revenue  [consists of] Pestalozzi's hefty grants). 

But what role exactly does Brown play in Pestalozzi's "wood cartel"? 

FOCUS / HADI VS. CLARE ROUND 1: H=1; C=0

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2. RELATED: CLARE GAGAL KES PRA-PERBICARAAN, MAHKAMAH LONDON YAKINI SISTEM KEHAKIMAN MALAYSIA

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UK COURT RULES NO EVIDENCE THAT NAJIB AND MALAYSIAN JUDICIARY ARE CORRUPT

“Malaysians can now rest assured that Sarawak Report is nothing but a fake news portal that fabricated email transcripts, shopping receipts, banking documents, money trails and what have you, none of which were authentic, none of which would hold in the court of law.”

REPORTED BY THE THIRD FORCE

Last Wednesday, the 2nd of August 2017, a group of British lawyers representing PAS President Dato’ Seri Abdul Hadi Awang attended a Case Management hearing in London. The hearing was to decide the amount Hadi needed to deposit as security with the court in relation to a civil suit he is bringing against Clare Rewcastle Brown, the Chief Editor of Sarawak Report. 

The suit pertains allegations by Sarawak Report that the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak, bribed the PAS president with RM90 million, money that Ms. Rewcastle claims originated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). To date, she has yet to furnish the court with evidence to substantiate her claims despite being given ample time to do so. 

Yet, she asked the judge to fix £800,000 (about RM4.5 million) as the security Hadi needed to deposit with the court. The PAS president, on the other hand, offered to pay just RM80,000, arguing that the sum was “sufficient and uncontroversial.” Not only did the court accept Hadi’s offer, it ruled that Ms. Rewcastle herself needed to pay costs worth 15,000 pounds (about RM85,000) immediately and the balance upon assessment of the total cost.

BREAKING / CLARE BROWN GREEDILY EATS HER FOOT AT LONDON COURT; LOSES CASE MANAGEMENT HEARING AGAINST HADI

The NINE QUESTIONS Panel asks whether Clare Brown will be returning the over £30,000 in 'donations' collected for her legal fees, now determined to be much less than the wild figure of £800,000 she cunningly came up with, perhaps to garner more sympathy for her bogus cause - a conclusion seemingly shared by the courts in London despite CRB's desperately incessant protestations to the contrary. 

Although the possibility that she would be needing a whole lot more than the current amount is tantalisingly within the horizon - and well deserved should the courts find against her. Which should lead the donors to kick themselves in the head for having parted with any sum to defend a person who would then have been proven the liar. 

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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2. RELATED:  CLARE LOST PRE-TRIAL CASE AS LONDON COURT TRUSTS MALAYSIAN SYSTEM

3. RELATED: LONDON COURTS ACCEPT HADI'S OFFER IN SUIT AGAINST SR EDITOR

4. RELATED: PERKEMBANGAN POSITIF KES SAMAN SARAWAK REPORT DI LONDON

5. RELATED: WHO'S FOOTING THE BILL FOR HADI'S COSTLY UK SUIT, ASKS REWCASTLE-BROWN
6. RELATED: SARAWAK REPORT REACHES GBP£30,000 LEGAL FUND GOAL

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LONDON COURT FAVOURS HADI IN CASE MANAGEMENT IN SUIT AGAINST CLARE REWCASTLE-BROWN

“This [deposit] is in the event he (Hadi) was to lose the case and would have to pay Rewcastle-Brown’s legal costs, which she estimates to be around £800,000 (RM4.5 million) in total for the whole hearing till completion.”

REPORTED BY NEW STRAITS TIMES

KUALA LUMPUR, AUGUST 5, 2017 –

Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang’s case management involving his civil suit against Sarawak Report founder and editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown, favoured on behalf of the PAS president. 

The Case management took place at the Courts in London, United Kingdom on August 2. 

In a statement, Hadi’s political secretary Dr Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar said the case management arose after Rewcastle-Brown applied to the court for the Marang member of parliament to deposit monies with the court as a security for legal costs involving the parties court proceedings.

BREAKING / JUSTO LAUNCHES HIS SINGAPORE ASSAULT

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

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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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2. RELATED: THE ANC AND SARAWAK REPORT WANT TO SEND ME TO JAIL

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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”. 

REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

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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2. RELATED: 1MDB REPORT: PAC ZEROES IN ON FORMER CEO SHAHROL AS AMONG THE CULPRITS
3. RELATED: PAC 1MDB REPORT EVADED PM'S ROLE AS ADVISER, CLAIMS KIT SIANG
4. RELATED: NAJIB WAS NEVER DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN 1MDB'S AFFAIRS, PAC DEPUTY CHIEF SAYS
5. RELATED: FULL INTERVIEW WITH PAC CHAIRMAN HASAN ARIFIN

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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. 

BREAKING / THE 1MDB SAGA EASES TO A DEFINITE END

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2. RELATED: SRC INTERNATIONAL, RM2.6 BILLION FUND PROBES FIND NO CRIMINAL WRONGDOING BY PM, SAYS AG

3. RELATED: AG DECLARES CASE CLOSED, SAYS 'NO CRIMINAL OFFENCE' IN SRC, RM2.6B PROBES

4. RELATED:  NO CRIMINAL OFFENCE OVER RM2.6 BILLION IN NAJIB'S ACCOUNTS, CASE CLOSED, SAYS A-G

5. RELATED:  MALAYSIAN PM CLEARED OF GRAFT AFTER FUNDS IN ACCOUNT DECLARED A SAUDI GIFT
6. RELATED: PM NAJIB CLEARED AFTER RETURNING 'PERSONAL DONATION' TO SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY: MALAYSIA AG

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ON DONATIONS VERDICT - NAJIB RAZAK

"This issue has been an unnecessary distraction for the country. Now that the matter has been comprehensively put to rest, it is time for us to unite and move on." – PM Najib Tun Razak

REPORTED BY THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER

I welcome the statement issued today by the Attorney-General, Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali. The findings followed a thorough investigation by the relevant institutions, and he has confirmed what I have maintained all along: that no crime was committed.

‎I appreciate that political funding is a topic of concern to many people. That is why I first initiated political funding reform proposals in 2010. Unfortunately, these were blocked by the opposition at the time. However, I have instructed for them to be put forward again for discussion.

‎This issue has been an unnecessary distraction for the country. Now that the matter has been comprehensively put to rest, it is time for us to unite and move on.

‎I will now redouble my focus on the key issues that matter to Malaysia, especially combating the threat of terrorism, and strengthening the economy in the face of global headwinds.‎

CURRENT / SARAWAK REPORT BACKFIRES...YET AGAIN

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2. RELATED: SARAWAK REPORT CONFIRMS PETROSAUDI'S AND ANWAR IBRAHIM'S RELATIONSHIPS
3. RELATED: I'M NOT ANWAR'S STOOGE, SAYS SARAWAK REPORT EDITOR

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IN ITS HASTE TO "PAINT NAJIB BLACK", SARAWAK REPORT EXPOSES ANWAR'S LINKS TO TERROR ORGANISATIONS

REPORTED BY MALAYSIAN DIGEST

KUALA LUMPUR, January 4, 2016 –

Recently Sarawak Report published what it intended as an expose aimed at the ruling Malaysian government and its links to PetroSaudi officials but instead exposed former Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's links to terror organizations in the Middle East.

Lim Sian See blog recently highlight a Sarawak Report article that reproduced an email between Nawaf Obaidi, the brother of Tarek Obaid, the CEO of PetroSaudi, with the Deputy National Advisor for International Economic Affairs in the US National Security Council (NSC), Michael Froman.

The email mentioned that Nawaf did a confidential background assessment and discovered Anwar has close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood network (Ikhwan Muslimin) that the US government deemed as a terror organization.

“More alarmingly, we have found proof of Mr. Ibrahim’s ties with some of the leading brotherhood ideologues and financiers around the globe, such as Youssef Al Qaradawi, Yassin Qadi, Youssef Nada and others.

“The International Institute of Islamic [Thought] in Virginia that was raided on numerous occasions by the federal authorities in the past several years and the nerve center of brotherhood financing in the US has Mr. Ibrahim as a founding member,” the email stated.

LSS Report highlighted the significance of the unintended revelation.

CURRENT / DECEMBER 15 SET FOR JUSTO INTERVIEW

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2. RELATED: POLICE TO INTERVIEW JUSTO IN BANGKOK ON DECEMBER 15, IGP SAYS

3. RELATED: POLICE EXPECTED TO RECORD JUSTO'S STATEMENT ON DECEMBER 15

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POLICE TO RECORD STATEMENT FROM JUSTO IN BANGKOK

"Our counterparts in Bangkok have given the approval for us to interview Justo." – Datuk Amar Singh

REPORTED BY THE NEW STRAITS TIMES

KUALA LUMPUR, December 10, 2015–

Police will record a statement from former PetroSaudi executive Xavier Andre Justo in Bangkok on December 15. 

Bukit Aman CID deputy director (investigation and law) Datuk Amar Singh said that he will be heading the special police investigative mission to Bangkok on that date. 

"Our counterparts in Bangkok have given the approval for us to interview Justo," said Amar when contacted. 

Justo, who is a Swiss national, was sentenced to three years jail on August 17 after pleading guilty to blackmailing his former employer PetroSaudi International. 

BREAKING / MACC MET RM2.6B DONOR

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2. RELATED: MACC SAYS MET DONOR OF RM2.6B, BUT MUM ON IDENTITY
3. RELATED: MACC MET RM2.6B DONOR: REPORT
4. RELATED: RM2.6 BIL DONOR INTERVIEWED BY MACC, REPORT SAYS

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MACC ADMITS: WE'VE MET DONOR OF RM2.6BIL

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had [said] in the Dewan Rakyat on December 3 that MACC has identified the donor of the RM2.6 billion political fund and that Bank Negara Malaysia has been informed of the account.

REPORTED BY THE NEW STRAITS TIMES

KOTA BARU, December 7, 2015–

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today confirmed that it has sent a team to the Middle East to meet the donor of the RM2.6bil political fund.

MACC investigations division director Datuk Azam Baki said the meeting with the donor was held recently.

However, Azam could not disclose any details, including the identity of the donor, as investigations were ongoing.

"Investigations into the case are still ongoing. Once we have completed our investigation, we will hand over the findings to the Deputy Public Prosecutor, who will decide on the next course of action.

CURRENT / SYARIAH APPEALS COURT ON MAHMUD TAIB DIVORCE: SHAHNAZ HAD NO LOCUS STANDI

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2. RELATED: EX-WIFE EXAGGERATED MY WEALTH, MAHMUD SAYS
3. RELATED: NO NEED FOR ALIMONY AS ABU BEKIR PAID FOR EX-WIFE'S HOUSE, CARS

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HIGH COURT NOTIFIED OF MAHMUD'S SUCCESSFUL APPEAL

The Kuala Lumpur Shariah High Court was today informed that the Shariah Appeals Court had on July 14 ruled in favour of Sarawak entrepreneur Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib in the child maintenance claim brought by former wife Shahnaz Abdul Majid against him.

REPORTED BY BLOGTAKES

KUALA LUMPUR, (FMT) August 20, 2015–

The decision was conveyed to Kuala Lumpur Shariah High Court Registrar Nor Faiz Afsal Abu Bakar by Mahmud’s counsel Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar, Saadiah Din and Muhammad Izaan Azalan. Mohd Rafie Mohd Shafie and Akberdin bin Abdul Kader, who act for Shahnaz were, however, not present.

The appellate court had last month unanimously ruled that Shahnaz had no locus standi to bring the claim as their son Raden Murya Abdul Taib Mahmud had reached the age of majority on his eighteenth birthday.

BREAKING / JUSTO TO BE QUIZZED BY MALAYSIAN COPS THIS WEEK

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2. RELATED: POLICE TO INTERVIEW 1MDB LEAKER JUSTO [THIS] WEEK
3. RELATED: MALAYSIAN POLICE TO INTERVIEW XAVIER JUSTO [THIS] WEEK

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MALAYSIAN COPS TO INTERROGATE JUSTO IN THAILAND, SAYS IGP

“They (Thai police) are now willing to welcome our officers to interrogate Justo,” [the IGP] told reporters after a parade of cadet inspectors at the Kuala Lumpur Police Training Centre in Kuala Lumpur today.

REPORTED BY THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER

KUALA LUMPUR, (BERNAMA) November 28, 2015– 

The Malaysian police will send a team to Thailand to interrogate Xavier Andre Justo on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), says Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar.

CURRENT / THE "BROWN" PLOT THICKENING AGENT

AS THE DAYS WEAR ON, MORE REVELATIONS SURROUNDING THE WHATSAPP EXCHANGES BETWEEN BROWN & CO. AND THE SWORN CONFESSION OF XAVIER ANDRE JUSTO SURFACE

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REWCASTLE-BROWN AND ALLEGED CO-CONSPIRATORS ASKED TO DENY PARTICIPATION IN WHATSAPP GROUP 'MEET'

REPORTED BY THE NEW STRAITS TIMES

Those implicated in an alleged conspiracy to topple Datuk Seri Najib Razak's administration have been challenged to deny that they had any part or were involved in the WhatsApp group "Meet". 

"Meet" was so named to signify a meeting the key personalities had in Singapore in February, and is part of the evidence Thai authorities had been looking into in its investigations into Xavier Andre Justo's blackmail of his former employer PetroSaudi International Ltd. It is a three-month long thread between Justo, Clare Rewcastle-Brown, who was acting as his broker, as well as The Edge Media Group's top guns, Datuk Tong Kooi Ong and Ho Kay Tat.

Petaling Jaya Utara member of parliament and Public Accounts Comittee member Tony Pua, while not a part of "Meet", was widely mentioned, especially by Rewcastle-Brown and Justo. 

FOCUS / THE STRAWMAN'S FIRES

THE "BROWN-STRAUMANN" LINK

Amidst the obviously rehashed and discarded "explosive" news reporting by "reputable" news outlets, lies hidden the true picture why these stories are time-released by exactly the same culprits.  The NINE QUESTIONS Panel will gradually flatten these characters with the weight of the ultimate truth.

The past second week of September went by with such a flurry of announcements and 'leaks' from Sarawak Report and allies about their calls for one investigation or another, and just as it was in 2013, these very same actors faffle between themselves on who gets to report which of the plentifully debunked stories this time around.

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In this latest multi-pronged attack against the Malaysian establishment, the Prime Minister is now attacked by Al Jazeera, and the Sydney Morning Herald 'broke' the story about the Governor of Sarawak with an "explosive revelation" about the Tun Pehin Sri's (catchall phrase, "Taib-family") "secret holdings" in Adelaide.

Naturally, upon reading the article, several facts jumped out, screaming for attention.

Note that as the article is evidently based on firmly and factually debunked sources, we shall not reproduce the said September 12, 2015 article, although it can be found by clicking on the link here.

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The SMH Debunk #1

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