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.

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.

EDITORIAL / THE MENTAL ACROBATICS REQUIRED TO KEEP SUPPORTING CLARE BROWN'S COURT CASE IN LONDON: LEVEL 999

In the interest of our readers, we would like to highlight a typical - albeit somehow very popularly visited - blog entry that had certainly put in a lot of thought and effort to keep justifying their continued and undying support for the fraud Clare Rewcastle Brown, and her equally fraudulent Sarawak Report. 

We present it in its translated form, and include the original posting in Malay for verification.

This one example though, truly describes the idiotic dilemma that Clare Brown had expertly put her supporters into this time around. This logic pattern is apparent everywhere even when it's not this obvious - and certainly not this entertaining in its blatant disregard to common sense.

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PAKATAN HAR^PAN WILL ORGANISE A DONATION DRIVE TO ASSIST CLARE BROWN

This is only the starting cost, and Claire (sic) is expected to expend a whole lot more cash to be paid to Hadi, especially in the event that she loses the lawsuit.

REPORTED BY SUARA PAKATAN HAR^PAN

AUGUST 7, 2017 –

Malaysians are clearly a generous lot. For example, YB Rafizi (PKR-MP for Pandan, Selangor) was able to collect RM1.5 million in 10 days in order to pay a RM300,000 fine following his defeat in the NFC lawsuit.

Taking a leaf from the experience, Pakatan Harapan will organise another fundraising event, this time to help the operator of Sarawak Report Clair Newcastle (sic) Brown, who had been ordered to pay £15,000 to the PAS President, Hadi Awang at a hearing in London.

This is only the starting cost, and Claire (sic) is expected to expend a whole lot more cash to be paid to Hadi, especially in the event that she loses the lawsuit.

Claire (sic) needs to be helped because her exposés have helped Pakatan Harapan to uncover whatever that the government is trying to hide concerning 1MDB. 1MDB-related issues will ensure Pakatan Harapan's victory in the upcoming GE14.

Pakatan Harapan expects to garner RM4 million to help Claire (sic) face the PAS lawsuit. Malaysians who owe her a debt of gratitude must come together and help out.

('Pakatan Harapan akan Adakan Kutipan Derma untuk Bantu Claire (sic) Brown.' – Suara Pakatan Har^pan, August 7, 2017)

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 RECEIVES ROYAL PARDON

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JUSTO GETS ROYAL PARDON IN THAILAND
Justo will have his sentence commuted by one-third and will probably serve the remainder of his jail term on parole or be transferred to another prison.

REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

BANGKOK (BERNAMA), August 9, 2016 –  

Swiss national Andre Xavier Justo, who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for attempted blackmail of his former employer, PetroSaudi International, has received a royal pardon.

According to lawyer Worrasit Piriyawiboon, his client got the pardon in conjunction with Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 70 years on the throne and Queen Sirikit’s birthday.

“The announcement of the royal pardon was released in a Royal Gazette website last night.