CURRENT / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S INTERVIEW ON CHANNEL NEWSASIA REGARDING THE WARRANT FOR HER ARREST

"I'M NOT SCARED": SARAWAK REPORT'S CLARE BROWN ON ARREST WARRANT FOR HER IN MALAYSIA

REPORTED BY CHANNEL NEWSASIA
"I am just the latest victim in an extraordinary series of recent events in Malaysia," says the London-based founder of investigative journalism site Sarawak Report.

LONDON, August 5, 2015 –

The founder of alternative news site Sarawak Report Clare Rewcastle Brown describes an arrest warrant put out for her as an "irrational" move on the Malaysian government's part, done entirely for "domestic consumption". 

Malaysian police announced the arrest warrant on Tuesday (August 4), on the basis that Ms Brown is involved in "activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy" and for the dissemination of false reports which is an offence under the Malaysian penal code.

Ms Brown, the sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said she does not think Malaysian authorities have a chance of extraditing her. 

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[RELATED: BREAKING / INTERPOL SAYS NO TO MALAYSIA'S RED NOTICE REQUEST – Sources, August 29, 2015] 

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CURRENT / JUSTO AND THE EDGE MEDIA GROUP

OWNER, PUBLISHER OF THE EDGE ADMIT MISLEADING SWISS NATIONAL INTO BELIEVING HE WOULD BE PAID FOR DOCUMENTS ON 1MDB
REPORTED BY THE STRAITS TIMES

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24, 2015–  

The owner and the publisher of The Edge Media Group admitted on Friday to misleading Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo into believing that he would be paid for handing over 400,000 documents relating to 1Malaysia Development Berhad's (1MDB) aborted venture with Saudi oil firm PetroSaudi.

In a joint response to The Straits Times' interview with the former PetroSaudi executive, Datuk Tong Kooi Ong and Mr Ho Kay Tat said: "Yes, we misled him." 

"But that was the only way to get hold of the evidence to expose how a small group of Malaysians and foreigners cheated the people of Malaysia of US$1.83  billion (S$2.5 billion)," they said in a statement posted on the Malaysian Insider, a news portal owned by the media group. 

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[RELATED: CURRENT / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S INTERVIEW ON CHANNEL NEWSASIA REGARDING THE WARRANT FOR HER ARREST – "The Prime Minister has now finally had it announced through the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission that that was not anything to do with 1MDB money, which actually certainly I and I don’t know of any investigative reporters who said it was." - Clare Rewcastle Brown - Channel NewsAsia, August 5, 2015]

[RELATED: SENSATIONAL FINDINGS! PRIME MINISTER NAJIB RAZAK’S PERSONAL ACCOUNTS LINKED TO 1MDB MONEY TRAIL - MALAYSIA EXCLUSIVE - Sarawak Report, July 2, 2015]

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BREAKING / MALAYSIANS LINKED TO JUSTO TO BE FURTHER QUESTIONED BY POLICE, SAYS IGP

MALAYSIANS LINKED TO JUSTO TO BE FURTHER QUESTIONED BY POLICE, SAYS IGP
REPORTED BY THE RAKYAT POST

KUALA LUMPUR, August 18, 2015 – 

Malaysians associated with imprisoned Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo can expect a further barrage of questions by police over the alleged conspiracy to discredit Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his administration. 

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[RELATED: FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY'S LEGAL CODES – "1A– Conspiracy to commit offences outside the United Kingdom." - UK CRIMINAL LAW ACT 1977, August 11, 2015]

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The move to call these individuals for further interviews has already been put in motion. 

CURRENT / MAHMUD TAIB: "EXAGGERATED WEALTH NOT REAL, BUT FORGERIES MASQUERADING AS HACKS"

EXAGGERATED WEALTH FOR MUTAAH CLAIM NOT REAL, THEY ARE FORGERIES MASQUERADING AS HACKS, SAYS DATUK SERI MAHMUD ABU BEKIR TAIB
REPORTED BY BlogTakes
Sarawak business entrepreneur Datuk Seri Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib today continued his testimony in the Shariah High Court of Kuala Lumpur in a re-examination by his counsel, testifying that an international politically motivated conspiracy had evolved from his divorce maintenance hearings against him and his family, in particular, his father Tun Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, Governor of Sarawak and immediate former chief minister of the state.

“What was [supposed] to be a private matter in divorce maintenance claims before the courts was blown up into an international attack and slander to change the political landscape of Sarawak. To add spice, my wealth was grossly exaggerated and misrepresented,” he said. 

He cited attacks from Sarawak Report led by British political activist Clare Rewcastle-Brown who is related to former UK prime minister Gordon Brown. Ms Rewcastle, he said, had picked up every conceivable piece of gossip and political scandal to undermine his reputation and credibility. 

“It saddens me that my divorce, which is painful enough for all, should have been hijacked by politicians and activists, and used to disseminate falsehoods under the cover of this respected court.” 

BREAKING / BUSINESSMAN AT CENTER OF MAJOR MALAYSIAN CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION IS JAILED IN THAILAND

BUSINESSMAN AT CENTER OF MAJOR MALAYSIAN CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION IS JAILED IN THAILAND
REPORTED BY THE TELEGRAPH
A Swiss oil company executive who supplied material to Clare Rewcastle Brown about business dealings in Malaysia has been jailed for attempted corporate blackmail

A former oil company executive at the centre of claims that Gordon Brown’s sister-in-law was part of a plot to topple the Malaysian prime minister over corruption allegations has been sentenced to jail for attempted corporate blackmail. 

Xavier Justo, a Swiss businessman who used to work in London for PetroSaudi International, an energy company with offices in Mayfair and Riyadh, was jailed for three years in Bangkok after pleading guilty to the charges. 

In a written confession, Justo said earlier that he had met Clare Rewcastle Brown, a campaigning British journalist, as he tried to sell corporate data about PetroSaudi’s dealings with 1MDB, the scandal-plagued Malaysian state investment fund. 

BREAKING / RMP TO RESUME EFFORTS TO INTERVIEW JUSTO IN THAI PRISON, WITH A-G HELP

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COPS TO RESUME EFFORTS TO INTERVIEW JUSTO IN THAI PRISON, WITH ASSISTANCE FROM A-G
REPORTED BY THE RAKYAT POST

KUALA LUMPUR, August 17, 2015 –

Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo’s conviction in Thailand for alleged corporate espionage and extortion, has proven to be a catalyst for police investigations here into the conspiracy to discredit Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his administration. 

And police are expected to act swiftly for as long as Justo remains behind bars in a Thai prison, it would be their window of opportunity. 

"We can interview him while he remains in prison in Bangkok, Thailand,” Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said. 

BREAKING / SWISS NATIONAL XAVIER JUSTO GIVEN 3-YEAR JAIL TERM FOR 1MDB-LINKED BLACKMAIL

SWISS NATIONAL XAVIER JUSTO GIVEN 3-YEAR JAIL TERM FOR 1MDB-LINKED BLACKMAIL
REPORTED BY THE STRAITS TIMES OF SINGAPORE

BANGKOK, August 17, 2015 –

Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo was sentenced to three years in jail by a Thai court on Monday for blackmailing his former employer PetroSaudi International, which is entangled in a huge scandal involving the Malaysian government. 

His sentence was halved after his confession, according to court officials. It is not clear whether Justo will appeal as his lawyer has refused to take questions until he has consulted his client. 

The 49-year-old former IT executive blackmailed his former employer, an energy company that was involved in a failed venture with state investor 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) in 2009. He then tried to sell data which he stole from the company to a group of people who he said intended to use it to topple Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. 

FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY'S LEGAL CODES

FOCUS THIS TIME IS AN ANTHOLOGY OF 9Q4SR's FACEBOOK COMMENTS THAT ARISES FROM TOPICS PRESENTED ON THE NINE QUESTIONS Blog

Posted on Sarawak Report's facebook Page on August 16, 2015

FEATURED TOPIC:

CLARE’S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY’S LEGAL CODES | UPDATE AUGUST 16

III. “SIMILAR, BUT DIFFERENT.”

II. “WHICH ONE IS IT?”

I. "NOT TRIABLE IN THE UK.”

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CURRENT / THE JUSTO CONFESSION ON THE STRAITS TIMES OF SINGAPORE

REPRODUCED BELOW IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE SINGAPORE STRAITS TIMES ARTICLE IN REFERENCE TO PERTINENT SECTIONS FILTERED TO BRING FOCUS ONTO THE ACTUAL CONFESSION AND IMMEDIATE RESPONSES.

THE JUSTO CONFESSION 
on the Straits Times of Singapore
July 24, 2015

XAVIER ANDRE JUSTO

"I tried to open an account in Singapore, to have the money paid directly from (the buyer's) account, 

"DBS Bank refused, I don't know why. After that I opened an account in Abu Dhabi in my own personal name which was refused by (the buyer) because it had my name on it. 

"Then I tried to use my company account in Hong Kong and he said the same, after that it was through a Luxembourg company and then again (the buyer) refused and after that Clare Brown took the lead, 

“[The buyer also] offered to pay me by cash.

"So I was supposed to go to Singapore every week or every other week to receive an envelope with a few thousand or tens of thousands, and repeat this process for months until the final amount will have been paid. And again I refused. 

"All of what is written in my confession, most of it is proven by e-mail conversations, WhatsApp messages I have had with (them). 

"[Ms Rewcastle-Brown had agreed to receive the US$2 million from the buyer and send {me} US$250,000 a month for consultancy services.] 

"I don't know if she received the money or not, (because) I was arrested, 

"I have no idea. 

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[RELATED: CURRENT / JUSTO AND THE EDGE MEDIA GROUP – "Yes, we misled [Justo]. But that was the only way to get hold of the evidence to expose how a small group of Malaysians and foreigners cheated the people of Malaysia of US$1.83 billion (S$2.5 billion). All the more so when we know he will be upset with us because we will eventually not pay him what he wants." - Datuk Tong Kooi Ong and Ho Kay Tat - The Straits Times, July 24, 2015]

[RELATED: BREAKING / BUSINESSMAN AT CENTER OF MAJOR MALAYSIAN CORRUPTION SCANDAL IS JAILED IN THAILAND – “I did pursue [Justo] doggedly to get the material. In the end he surrendered it for free." - Clare Rewcastle Brown - The Telegraph, August 17, 2015]

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[RELATED: BREAKING / SWISS NATIONAL GIVEN 3-YEAR JAIL TERM FOR 1MDB-LINKED BLACKMAIL – "The country’s anti-corruption agency later said the $700 million was donations, effectively clearing Razak of wrongdoing." – FultonCounty.COM, August 17, 2015]

[RELATED: FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY'S LEGAL CODES - "2– Fraud by false representation; (2) A representation is false if— (b) the person making it knows that it is, or might be, untrue or misleading." - UK FRAUD ACT 2006, August 16, 2015]

RELATED: EPISODES / DRAMATIS PERSONÆ–WHO'S WHO OF CLARE BROWN – "Therefore, it was only after strikingly similar financial information [from Cullen Johnson] was submitted in a court hearing related to Abu Bekir’s divorce and then printed in all the Malaysian media, that we too subsequently quoted what the Malaysian media reported had been said in court." - Clare Rewcastle Brown - Sarawak Report, January 10, 2015]

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[RELATED: CURRENT / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S INTERVIEW ON CHANNEL NEWSASIA REGARDING THE WARRANT FOR HER ARREST – "The Prime Minister has now finally had it announced through the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission that that was not anything to do with 1MDB money, which actually certainly I and I don’t know of any investigative reporters who said it was." - Clare Rewcastle Brown - Channel NewsAsia, August 5, 2015]

[RELATED: SENSATIONAL FINDINGS! PRIME MINISTER NAJIB RAZAK’S PERSONAL ACCOUNTS LINKED TO 1MDB MONEY TRAIL - MALAYSIA EXCLUSIVE - Sarawak Report, July 2, 2015]

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[RELATED: FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY'S LEGAL CODES -"11– Obtaining services dishonestly. (2) A person obtains services in breach of this subsection if– (a) they are made available on the basis that the payment has been, is being, or will be made for or in respect of them, (b) he obtains them without any payment having been made for or in respect of them or without payment having been made in full, and (c) when he obtains them, he knows– (i) that they are being made available on the basis described in paragraph (a), or (ii) that they might be, but intends that payment will not be made, or will not be made in full." - UK FRAUD ACT 2006,  August 16, 2015]

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"[The group {I} had met in Singapore - including Ms Rewcastle-Brown - had tampered with the data {I} had given them.] 

"I gave the original documents without any kind of alteration, 

"I can say that I gave those documents to two groups of people, [one was Ms Rewcastle-Brown and "her IT guy" and the other was the Malaysian businessman and his colleague.] 

“[Those {I} met had talked about using the documents] to try to bring down the Malaysian government. 

“[They also referred to plans to] modify the documents.

“[{I}...admitted that {I} had stolen company data - some 90 gigabytes worth - when {I} left in 2011.

"{I} asked PetroSaudi for more money in 2013 but it turned {me} down. Subsequently, through a contact in Geneva with connections in Malaysia, {I} was introduced to Ms Clare Rewcastle-Brown, whom {I} later met in Bangkok at the Plaza Athenee hotel [sic.] and in Singapore at the Fullerton Hotel. In Singapore, she was accompanied by the others named in {my} confession.] 

"[{My confession} had not been made under duress, and that {I} had been pleasantly surprised at how well {I} had been treated in the Bangkok prison.]"

- Xavier Andre Justo, ex-PetroSaudi International Director - International 'Person-of-Interest', July 24, 2015

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RELATED: CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN’S RESPONSE TO THE JUSTO CONFESSION

“Bunkum. 

"What I have presented on 1MDB and has been clarified by The Edge and corroborated by several other official sources is a coherent explanation of events, versus the dodging, changing stories of 1MDB. 

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[RELATED: CURRENT / JUSTO AND THE EDGE MEDIA GROUP – "Yes, we misled [Justo]. But that was the only way to get hold of the evidence to expose how a small group of Malaysians and foreigners cheated the people of Malaysia of US$1.83 billion (S$2.5 billion). All the more so when we know he will be upset with us because we will eventually not pay him what he wants." - Datuk Tong Kooi Ong and Ho Kay Tat - The Straits Times, July 24, 2015]

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“[Justo was] full of untruths. 

"Why would I wish to alter anything? If I had, why haven't 1MDB and PetroSaudi brought out the evidence of such altering in all of the last five or so months?”

- Clare Rewcastle Brown, Founder-Editor of Sarawak Report, July 24, 2015

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[RELATED: FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY'S LEGAL CODES -"11– Obtaining services dishonestly. (2) A person obtains services in breach of this subsection if– (a) they are made available on the basis that the payment has been, is being, or will be made for or in respect of them, (b) he obtains them without any payment having been made for or in respect of them or without payment having been made in full, and (c) when he obtains them, he knows– (i) that they are being made available on the basis described in paragraph (a), or (ii) that they might be, but intends that payment will not be made, or will not be made in full." - UK FRAUD ACT 2006,  August 16, 2015]

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[RELATED: BREAKING / BUSINESSMAN AT CENTER OF MAJOR MALAYSIAN CORRUPTION SCANDAL IS JAILED IN THAILAND – “I did pursue [Justo] doggedly to get the material. In the end he surrendered it for free." - Clare Rewcastle Brown - The Telegraph, August 17, 2015]

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RELATED: THE EDGE MALAYSIA CEO MR HO KAY TAT’S RESPONSE TO THE JUSTO CONFESSION

"[The newspaper had] a public duty to find and report the truth. 

"We were not involved in any theft, we did not pay anyone, and we did not tamper (with) any of the e-mails and documents we were given, 

"[The newspaper was handing over to Malaysian government investigators printed documents and the hard disk that contains bank transfers and statements linked to the 1MDB scandal .]”

- Mr Ho Kay Tat, CEO of The Edge Malaysia, July 24, 2015

('I was offered $2.7m for stolen data: Ex-PetroSaudi employee Xavier Andre Justo on the 1MDB saga.' - The Straits Times, July 24, 2015)

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The NINE QUESTIONS Blog will return with more facts.

TOPIC / THEFT BREACH OF TRUST - THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE

TOPIC REPRODUCES MATTERS AND DISCUSSIONS OF INTEREST FROM THE TREASURE TROVE OF PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE SITES AROUND THE WEB WITHOUT PANEL COMMENTARY

THEFT BREACH OF TRUST:

LEGAL GUIDANCE:

THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE.

Breach of trust in excess of £170K [RM1.09M]

R v TORKONIAK [2005] 1 Cr.App.R.(S.) 27 

Convicted of 15 counts of theft, two counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, one count of false accounting, two counts of obtaining property by deception, one count of forgery, and one count of perjury. The defendant was in practice as a solicitor. He negotiated a settlement of £100,000 for a client who suffered personal injuries. The defendant told the client that the amount awarded was £18,000 and retained at least

TOPIC / UK FRAUD ACT 2006

Fraud Act 2006

LAWS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

FRAUD ACT 2006

Fraud

1 Fraud 

(1) A person is guilty of fraud if he is in breach of any of the sections listed in subsection (2) (which provide for different ways of committing the offence). 

(2) The sections are— 

(a) section 2 (fraud by false representation), 

(b) section 3 (fraud by failing to disclose information), and 

(c) section 4 (fraud by abuse of position).