BREAKING / JUSTO'S LAWYERS REVEALED 1MDB DOCUMENTS TO RAO

JUSTO'S LAWYERS REVEALED 'UNTAMPERED' 1MDB DOCUMENTS, CLAIMS RAMESH
Ramesh said the alleged tampering involved dates, names, figures and houses, among others. He, however, stressed that he could not reveal more details as the documents were part of Justo lawyer’s appeal affidavit.

REPORTED BY THE STAR ONLINE

PETALING JAYA, November 11, 2015

Ramesh Rao Krishnan Naidu claims that he has seen the “untampered” documents relating to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

The Pertubuhan Minda dan Sosial Prihatin Malaysia president said he was granted access to the documents through former PetroSaudi International executive Xavier Andre Justo’s lawyer, Worrasit Piriyawiboon.

“We are not making this up. We have seen the original documents and the tampered ones as published (in several reports),” he said here, Saturday.

Ramesh said the alleged tampering involved dates, names, figures and houses, among others. He, however, stressed that he could not reveal more details as the documents were part of Justo lawyer’s appeal affidavit.

Ramesh said he was shown the documents during a three-day visit to Bangkok, Thailand with his lawyer Zakwan Hafiz Ahmad Ansari on Tuesday.

The trip, he said, was their own initiative to “assist the Malaysian police in their investigation”

On October 23, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said he would send his officers to Bangkok to interview Justo after permission was granted to them following a meeting between Malaysian and Thai police.

Ramesh, however, said he had yet to hear of any development from the police.

“That’s why we took these initiatives to meet Justo’s lawyer so it would be easier for the police to conduct their investigation,” he said.

Based on the meeting with Worrasit, Ramesh said he was told that Justo was “100% willing” to meet with Malaysian police.

Ramesh said he felt compelled to pursue the matter as he was the one who lodged a police report for journalist Lester Melanyi over alleged fact-tampering by the Sarawak Report news portal.

The police report also claimed that Lester was reportedly used by Clare Rewcastle-Brown, who runs Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak, to spread false news on the website to purportedly smear Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's “good name”.

“I am hoping that the police would continue their investigations on Justo and Clare.

“I would also like to challenge those who believed anything that was published on Sarawak Report as authentic to make a public apology,” Ramesh said.

On October 14, Justo appealed against a three-year prison term handed down by the Bangkok South Criminal Court on August 17 for blackmailing his former employer, PetroSaudi International.

Among the reasons for the appeal was that Justo did not tamper with the documents he obtained from PetroSaudi International and that it was his first offence.

His lawyer had said that any damage to the image of the Prime Minister was because of the activities of third parties who doctored or tampered with the documents that they received from Justo.

He maintained that Justo had not tampered with the documents.  

 ('Justo's lawyers revealed 'untampered' 1MDB documents, claims Ramesh.' - The Star Online, November 7, 2015)

CURRENT / JUSTO SUES BROWN, TONG AND HO TRIO

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2. RELATED: JUSTO TO SUE 3 HE GAVE DATA TO IN SINGAPORE
3. RELATED: JUSTO TO SUE TRIO HE GAVE PETROSAUDI DATA

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JUSTO TO SUE 3 HE GAVE DATA TO IN SINGAPORE
The source told Bernama the lawsuit is scheduled to be heard at the High Court in Singapore on November 4.

REPORTED BY BERNAMA

BANGKOK, October 28, 2015–

Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo, now serving a three-year jail term here for trying to blackmail his former employer PetroSaudi International, is to sue the owner of the Edge Media Group and its top executive as well as the founder of Sarawak Report in the High Court in Singapore.

Justo wants Toong (sic.) Kooi Ong and Group Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of The Edge Communications Sdn Bhd Ho Kay Tat and founder-editor of Sarawak Report Clare Rewcastle-Brown to return the data that he had handed them, according to a source familiar with the case.

BREAKING / JUSTO DENIED BAIL

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2. RELATED: JUSTO DENIED BAIL
3. RELATED: BANGKOK COURT DENIES JUSTO BAIL
4. RELATED: JUSTO DENIED BAIL
5. RELATED: JUSTO DENIED BAIL
6. RELATED: COURT DENIES BAIL TO SWISS BLACKMAILER

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SWISS BLACKMAILER'S BAIL REQUEST REJECTED

His lawyer also said that Justo’s lawsuit as a plaintiff against three people, including Clare Rewcastle-Brown, the Malaysian-born Britain-based editor of the online Sarawak Report, would go ahead as planned in Singapore.

REPORTED BY BANGKOK POST

BANGKOK, October 26, 2015–

Convicted extortionist Xavier Andre Justo was deemed a flight risk and denied bail pending appeal on Monday by the Southern Bangkok Criminal Court, according to his lawyer Worasit Wiriyapiboon.

The court on August 17 sentenced the Swiss national to three years in prison for attempted blackmail of his former employer PetroSaudi International (PSI), backdated to his arrest on June 22.

CURRENT / POLICE TO MEET JUSTO WITHIN A WEEK

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2. RELATED: MALAYSIAN POLICE SET TO INTERVIEW JUSTO, LATEST BY END OF OCTOBER
3. RELATED: POLICE TO RECORD XAVIER JUSTO'S STATEMENT IN BANGKOK: IGP

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MALAYSIAN POLICE TO QUIZ JUSTO NEXT WEEK
Justo, who is being jailed in Thailand for blackmailing his former employer, was sought after by the Malaysian police to facilitate investigation into issues surrounding 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

REPORTED BY THE NEW STRAITS TIMES

KUALA LUMPUR, October 23, 2015– 

A team of police investigators will leave for Bangkok next week to record a statement from former PetroSaudi International executive Xavier Andre Justo. 

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the team will be led by a senior officer from the Federal police headquarters. 

"I expect our team to secure the interview next week. 

"Our counterparts in Bangkok have given the approval for us to question Justo and acquire documents related to our probe. We are currently still in discussion to find the right time to do this. 

CURRENT / CLARE INNOCENT AND AUTHENTIC?

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2. RELATED: 'LIVID' 1MDB DIRECTORS WANTED US$700M BACK FROM PETROSAUDI'
3. RELATED: MINUTES OF 1MDB BOARD MEETING PROVES 1MDB'S ARUL A LIAR
4. RELATED: 1MDB BOSS DENIES SARAWAK REPORT'S CLAIM HE LIED
5. RELATED: 1MDB FILES POLICE REPORT OVER LEAKED INFORMATION
6. RELATED: PUA MAKES STARTLING ADMISSION

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CLARE BROWN PROVEN INNOCENT: IGP MUST WITHDRAW WARRANT, GO AFTER 1MDB & NAJIB INSTEAD - TONY PUA

REPORTED BY MALAYSIA CHRONICLE

October 17, 2015 –

The Sarawak Report continued its exposé on the minutes of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) Board meetings with the disclosure yesterday indicating that the Directors (BOD) were furious with the top management team led by Datuk Shahrol Halmi.

The minutes dated 3rd October, soon after the signing of the 1MDB-Petrosaudi joint venture agreement, provided a damning confirmation that all the earlier documents leaked by the Sarawak Report were completely authentic.

Instead, the minutes proved that the Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Razak and his cohort of Ministers, as well as the current 1MDB President, Arul Kanda’s repeated attempts to taint the leaked information and documents by the whistle-blower website are clear cut lies. They have obviously alleged that the exposed documents were “doctored” or “tampered” to cover up the multi-billion ringgit scandal.

The minutes revealed that the Board of Directors were furious with the top executives of 1MDB for signing the joint venture agreement in reckless haste, and without any substantive due diligence; the highly suspicious speed of preparation of the valuation report which was prepared by Edward Morse; and most damningly, misappropriating US$700 million to an account unauthorised and unrelated to the joint venture.

The minutes disclosed that the Board “viewed that the formalisation of the joint venture was completed in a very short time which raises questions as to whether adequate control measures, checks and balances were put in place to protect the Company’s interests”. The Sarawak Report had exposed the fact that the top management of 1MDB met with Petrosaudi for the very first time in London on 23rd September 2009 and signed the joint venture agreement a mere 5 days later on the 28th.

CURRENT / THE JUSTO APPEAL AND ITS AFTERMATH

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2. RELATED: SWISS BLACKMAILER APPEALS FOR SUSPENDED JAIL TERM
3. RELATED: SWISS NATIONAL ANDRE JUSTO APPEALS TO THAI COURT FOR SUSPENDED SENTENCING
4. RELATED: WHERE IS JUSTO'S US$2 MIL, ASKS RAJA PETRA

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"JUSTO DIDN'T DOCTOR DOCUMENTS"
REPORTED BY THE NEW STRAITS TIMES

BANGKOK, October 15, 2015 –  

Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo has appealed against the three-year prison term handed down to him by the Bangkok South Criminal Court on August 17 for blackmailing his former employer, PetroSaudi International. 

Justo’s new lawyer, Worrasit Piriyawiboon, filed the appeal in the court yesterday morning with 59 pages of supporting documents, just two days before the period to appeal expires. 

Among the reasons for the appeal was that Justo did not tamper with the documents he obtained from PetroSaudi and it was his first offence. 

This raises a question: If Justo did not tamper with the documents, then who did? Was it Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle Brown or others? 

CURRENT / NURUL ANWAR DUE FOR QUESTIONING

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2. RELATED: POLICE TO QUESTION NURUL IZZAH IN PROBE ON 1MDB STOLEN DATA OFFER CLAIM
3. RELATED: NURUL IZZAH NEXT TO BE QUESTIONED BY COPS OVER LINKS WITH JUSTO

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POLICE TO QUESTION NURUL IZZAH OVER JUSTO'S CLAIMS

Police ready to question the Opposition MP over claims she offered to give ex-PSI employee government contracts in exchange for confidential information.

REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

PETALING JAYA, September 17, 2015– 

Police, looking to question Opposition MP Nurul Izzah Anwar over claims she was willing to procure stolen data damaging to Prime Minister Najib Razak, have been told the PKR lawmaker is currently not in Malaysia.

Speaking to The Malaysian Insider, Nurul’s lawyer Latheefa Koya said, “She is being investigated under Section 124B of the Penal Code (activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy) but is yet to be questioned. 

“The police were looking for her yesterday (Tuesday) but she is not around. She will be back on Monday.” 

FOCUS / THE STRAWMAN'S NOOSE

FOCUS THIS TIME TRAINS OUR EYES ONTO THE FACTUALLY TACITURN MR LUKAS STRAUMANN OF BRUNO MANSER FONDS FAME.

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2. RELATED: LETTER FROM MISHCON DE REYA (EXCERPTED)
3. RELATED: ACTUAL LETTER TO THE BBC

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MORE ROPE TO HANG LUKAS STRAUMANN?
REPORTED BY BLOGTAKES

It appears that there will be more rope to hang Bruno Manser Fund’s Dr Lukas Straumann for the defamatory statements made in recent weeks against Sarawak governor Tun Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud. 

Bruno Manser Fund and Sarawak Report have been challenging Taib to sue them, and claiming that a lack of a lawsuit so far “proves” their case. Which sort of makes sense, provided you don’t think very hard.

They seem to calculate that a Governor, particularly one as proud of his shiny new job as Taib, won’t sue. But more to the point, they would get huge publicity and financial support – notably amongst wealthy activists in Europe – if they could run around claiming that they themselves were under attack.

What they hardly ever point out is that he already HAS sued and won [against Malaysiakini], specifically on the main issue that they hang their hats on: Their claim that Taib set up his brother to control and demand kickbacks from log exports was disproved.

This is probably the biggest single allegation made by Sarawak Report, BMF and Global Witness that has already been tested in court and thrown out. Yet they continue to make it, almost always without telling their readers that it has been disproved.

FOCUS / THE WHATSAPP CONVO RECON

FOCUS THIS TIME RECONSTRUCTS THE BITS OF CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN CLARE & CO. THEY ARE AMALGAMATED AND ARRANGED BY CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

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UPDATED NOVEMBER 1, 2015
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The WhatsApp Exchanges
Alleged conversations between the key suspects*

[These whatsap (sic.) messages and ‘confessions’] are exactly what are now being used out of context as the main ‘evidence’ behind the smear campaign and videos featured on ‘The Real Clare Rewcastle’ Facebook site. 
– Sarawak Report, October 31, 2015

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CURRENT / FIFTY-TWO YEARS OF MALAYSIA, SIXTY-ONE DAYS OF THE '9 QUESTIONS'

On this day, the 16th of September, 2015

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SELAMAT HARI MALAYSIA

KE-52

MMXV

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THE 

NINE QUESTIONS

FOR

SARAWAK REPORT

HAS SURPASSED THE SIXTY-DAY MILESTONE

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.