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

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2. RELATED: JUSTO SAMAN THE EDGE, SARAWAK REPORT
3. RELATED: MEDIA TYCOON TONG KOOI ONG SEEKS TO STRIKE OUT JUSTO'S REPLY TO DEFENCE PAPERS

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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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2. RELATED: JUSTO'S, TONG'S LAWYERS HOLD PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE

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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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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. 

CURRENT / THE SAUDI GIFT AND THE WAR ON TERROR

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2. RELATED: THE MYSTERY BEHIND A $700M DONATION FROM THE SAUDI ROYALS TO THE MALAYSIAN PM

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SAUDI GIFT FOR MALAYSIA PM NAJIB RAZAK 'FOR ELECTION CAMPAIGN'

The Saudi source said the donation was made amid concern in Riyadh about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.

REPORTED BY BBC

The $681m (£479m) deposited in the bank account of Malaysian PM Najib Razak by Saudi Arabia was to help him win the 2013 elections, a Saudi source says. 

Malaysia's attorney general cleared Mr Najib of allegations of corruption on Tuesday after ruling that the money was a donation from the Saudi royal family. 

Mr Najib had denied that the money came from state investment fund 1MDB. 

The Saudi source said the donation was made amid concern in Riyadh about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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.

BREAKING / THE THORN ON REWCASTLE'S SIDE

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2. RELATED: LSS: SARAWAK REPORT HAS FIGHTING SPIRIT!

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THE TRUE NATURE OF CLAIRE REWCASTLE BROWN EXPOSED BY HER OWN PEOPLE

This clearly shows the desperate lengths this disgraced publisher will resort to twist facts to fit her sensational exposes about Malaysia's leadership and proves that her allegations are not based on sound journalistic investigations.

REPORTED BY MALAYSIAN DIGEST

December 14, 2015–

Clare Rewcastle Brown, known to many as the founder of the infamous Sarawak Report – an online news portal based in London that has been making attention-grabbing exposes in the international media alleging financial irregularities and corruption involving Malaysian leaders and its state-owned investment companies, is widely believed to be in cahoots with individuals plotting to overthrow the government of this country.

In a series of damning reports by Sarawak Report, Clare has repeatedly rehashed baseless allegations against several leaders of the country accusing them of abuse of power as well as financial mismanagement in an attempt to tarnish the good name of the leaders.

BREAKING / MALAYSIAN POLICE RECORDED JUSTO'S STATEMENT IN BANGKOK

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2. RELATED:IGP: JUSTO'S STATEMENT ON 1MDB RECORDED

3. RELATED:MALAYSIAN COPS RECORD JUSTO'S STATEMENT IN BANGKOK

4. RELATED: IGP: JUSTO'S STATEMENT ON 1MDB RECORDED 

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POLICE RECORDED JUSTO'S STATEMENT IN BANGKOK: IGP KHALID

REPORTED BY THE NEW STRAITS TIMES

KUALA LUMPUR, (BERNAMA) December 15, 2015–

Malaysian police’s plan to record Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo’s statement in connection with 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) proceeded today as scheduled in Bangkok, Thailand. 

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar confirmed this to Bernama when asked about the move to record the statement of the PetroSaudi former employer who is currently being detained in Bangkok. 

BREAKING / DETAILS OF THE JUSTO V TONG, HO AND BROWN TRIO SUBMISSIONS FILED IN THE SINGAPORE HIGH COURT

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2. RELATED: DFENCE [SIC.] OF THE 1ST DEFENDANT
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XAVIER ANDRE JUSTO'S STATEMENT OF CLAIM AT THE HIGH COURT OF SINGAPORE

REPORTED BY MALAYSIA TODAY

Table of Contents

1. Statement of Claim, 17th November 2015 10:49 AM … Page 1
2. Defence, 3rd November 2015 05:34 PM … Page 43


CASE NO: HC/S 986/2015
CASE NAME: Xavier Andre Justo & Anor v Tong Kooi Ong & 2 Ors
Case Status: Pending
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

HC/S 986/2015

1. XAVIER JUSTO 

(Switzerland Passport No. X1813585) 

2. JUSTO CONSULTING CO LTD 

(Registration No. Unknown)

… Plaintiffs

And

1. TONG KOOI ONG 

(NRIC No. S2768952C) 

2. HO KAY TAT 

(Malaysia Passport No. A20725350) 

3. CLARE REWCASTLE-BROWN 

(ID Unknown)

… Defendants