BREAKING / "THE WOLVES" REACH A SETTLEMENT WITH THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, THE NOOSE TIGHTENING AROUND CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN & CO'S NECKS

IN what looks like an upsetting development for the Sarawak Report camp, the US Department of Justice has reached a settlement with Red Granite Pictures - the notorious producers of the critically-acclaimed and groundbreaking 'Wolf of Wall Street' starring Leonardo DiCaprio as renegade American stock broker, Jordan Belfort who made a killing pumping and dumping non-performing stocks and repackaging them as bluechips with ridiculously inflated prices.

In what can best be described as a caper like no other, we are starting to think that Red Granite Pictures really should consider making a movie of this whole 1MDB saga, and also a mini-series on the shenanigans of the Clare Rewcastle Brown and Lukas Straumann pairing, not forgetting the financiers and politicians behind them. It's time that their sinister motivations - masked as civil rights crusades and environmental campaigning, when that cannot be farther from the actual truth - be exposed for what they truly are.

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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2. RELATED: 'WOLF OF WALL STREET' PRODUCER SETTLES U.S. FORFEITURE SUIT

3. RELATED: 'WOLF OF WALL STREET' PRODUCER REACHES SETTLEMENT IN CORRUPTION CASE

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'WOLF OF WALL STREET' PRODUCER RED GRANITE SETTLES FORFEITURE CASE WITH U.S. GOVERNMENT

Prosecutors previously told the court civil discovery would have an adverse effect on the related criminal investigation.

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Red Granite Pictures and the U.S. government have resolved the civil forfeiture case related to a Malaysian embezzlement investigation, according to a notice of settlement filed in California federal court Friday.

The feds had been seeking seizure of more than $1 billion in assets that were allegedly diverted by high-level Malaysian officials into shell companies, some of which may have been used to fund Red Granite's films. The company is run by CEO Riza Aziz, the stepson of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, and prosecutors believed it received about $100 million of the embezzled funds. A separate civil forfeiture targeting profits from Red Granite's Daddy's Home and Dumb and Dumber To has also settled.

FOCUS / AU CONTRAIRE, CLARE (REWCASTLE BROWN), SARAWAK IS A BEACON OF UNITY AND HARMONY; HOW SARAWAK REPORT AND LAPDOG BRUNO MANSER FONDS KEEP DISTORTING THE TRUE SITUATION IN SITU

ONCE again, reality bites the poison pen blog disguising itself as legitimate 'journalism' with the recent revelation by the Junior Chamber International (JCI) whom Sarawak hosted early September, that Sarawak remains the very beacon of peace that it has been celebrated for time and again.

The JCI had recently organised the acclaimed International Summit of Peace in the Sarawak capital of Kuching. The choice obviates and testifies to the continued successes of the Abdul Taib, Adenan and currently, Abang Jo Administrations in fostering peace and harmony despite Sarawak being situated in a region still being rocked by persistent and deadly inter-communal and inter-religious strifes.

We feel that it is this very potent combination of harmony and peace that is standing in the way of Sarawak Report and Bruno Manser Fonds - its fondest and most loyal pet animal, and they will stop at nothing to undermine and disrupt this enviable status quo that Sarawakians from all walks of life enjoy, as it is only within the ashes of destruction can these camps conjure up a corrupted Utopia in their own distorted images.

May their efforts continue to go to waste.

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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SARAWAK A UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF PEACE

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“I will just encourage them, especially the young people [of Sarawak], to continue that – the idea to respect, believe, support and encourage one another, as well as to share that peace with the rest of the world.” – Dawn Hetzel, Junior Chamber International World President

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CURRENT / REMEMBERING THE LIBERATION OF SARAWAK FROM IMPERIAL JAPANESE OCCUPATION

TODAY, September 11 in 1945, Sarawak is liberated by the Allied Army from Imperial Japanese occupation. 

We remember the moment that commemorates this historic day, and the sacrifices made by some of Sarawak's true heroes.

- The NINE QUESTIONS Panel.

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THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER CEREMONY OF THE JAPANESE TO THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES IN KUCHING, SARAWAK | SEPTEMBER 11, 1945
Aboard the corvette HMAS Kapunda, General H. Yamamura, Commanding Officer of Japanese Forces in the Kuching area, hands is sword to Brigadier T. C. Eastick, Commanding Officer, Kuching Force, on the occasion of the formal signing of the Japanese surrender. In the right background is Lieutenant A. J. Ford Ranr, Commanding Officer of the Kapunda. At the extreme left a person is either broadcasting of making a recording of the proceedings. – Naval Historical Collection

FOCUS / WHAT REALLY GOES ON IN SARAWAK, DESPITE NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNS BY CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN, LUKAS STRAUMANN AND THEIR MANIFEST DESTINY ORGANISATIONS SARAWAK REPORT AND BRUNO MANSER FONDS

SARAWAK Report and the Bruno Manser Fonds can claim whatever they want with all the huff and puff of their media might, but the State of Sarawak has been moving forward hand in hand not only with Malaysia - the country Sarawak helped create, and will struggle with, through thick and thin - but also alongside the world at large.

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REDEFINING GLOBAL TRIBES

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Join the revolution for Business Event communities to gather in unity to construct a stronger identity for Malaysia’s economy. 
Published by BESarawak, April 20, 2017

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THE JOURNEY - SARAWAK, BORNEO, MALAYSIA
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The Journey through Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, where adventure lives...
Published by SarawakTravel STB, January 4, 2012

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SARAWAK | WHERE ADVENTURE LIVES
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If adventure had a home, it would be the vast wilderness. Grand, green, awesome! Like no other place on earth. If adventure had a home, it would be filled with the friendliest people on earth. People of different races, religions and cultures. If adventure had a home, it would be here when one arrives as a guest and leaves as family. If adventure had a home, its home would be Sarawak. Come and explore our vast wild home of adventure. Sarawak, where adventure lives.
Published by SarawakTravel STB, February 26, 2016

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CAT CITY || KUCHING SARAWAK MALAYSIA
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Kuching (cat) City is one of the cleanest cities in Malaysia. Kuching is also a popular destination for people from neighboring countries like Indonesia and Brunei to come for [a] holiday. 
Published by Times Off, March 6, 2017

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WELCOME TO BEAUTIFUL GIAM VILLAGE AND WATERFALL SARAWAK
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Published by Johny John, May 16, 2017

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DISCOVER THE CITY OF UNITY, KUCHING
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A tourist is traveling around Kuching and meeting up his old friend, Eric which happens to be a local in town. Eric decides to bring his curious little friend around town and explain more on the components of uniqueness they have in Kuching that he could never forget. Eric also emphasizes on a remarkable experience his friend will embark not just the city itself, but also the unity of the multiracial society in Kuching. He introduces the tourist to his friends which are multiracial, show the tourist how everyone gets along very well without any complication despite having different backgrounds with different cultures and beliefs.
Published by Danish Busmah, May 15, 2016

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KUCHING | CITY OF UNITY
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Kuching is now the world's first City of Unity, and together we share this joy and pride.
Published by Asa Esa Films, August 14, 2015

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MIRI, SARAWAK
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Miri is a coastal city in northeastern Sarawak, Malaysia, located near the border of Brunei, on the island of Borneo.
Published by Eriic Aubins, April 2, 2017

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VISIT SIBU YEAR 2017 PROMOTIONAL VIDEO
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For more updates, please visit: https://www.travelsibu.com

Published by Visit Sibu Year 2017, March 14, 2016

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Thus, while Clare Rewcastle Brown and Lukas Straumann can jump around campaigning and peddling false and divisive stories about Sarawak - where they do not even reside, nor ever had at any length in their useful lives - the holy grail of their misguided crusade remains a beacon of unity and exemplary cultural harmony, pragmatically pursuing a unique version of modernity with inclusivity as its core value.

Sarawak will run a course along with the rest of the world. We are just unsure if Sarawak Report, BMF and their clone organisations are in sync with the rest of humanity, and not still as a bunch of "katak di bawah tempurung" (insular frog living under a coconut shell).

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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CURRENT / BLOGGER RAGGIE JESSY/THE THIRD FORCE PRESSES THE ATTACK AGAINST CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN, SILENCE FROM BROWN

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WITH ever mounting evidence verified by a reputable UK publication - The Telegraph previously did an extensive exposé about the Browns' alleged propensity for passing the buck to the common people in favour of allegedly alleviating their own pockets when it suits them - Raggie Jessy of the blog The Third Force is back to tell us about this lurid, yet suppressed (at least by Sarawak Report) piece of relatively recent history that is too blatant too ignore.

The fact that the whole episode went unpunished justifies the repeated retelling of it to as wide an audience as possible.

Also, the fact that one of the members of the Brown clan is currently and actively slandering Malaysians in every angle that she can frame her bogus stories from - chiefly of which is the anti-corruption angle - serves to factualise the abject and unbridled hypocrisy that is clearly being displayed by this self-appointed crusading 'journalist'.

Or a "half-past-six" journalist in Malaysian parlance.

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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2. RELATED: IN THE LATEST SALVO BY RAGGIE JESSY/THE THIRD FORCE, CLARE BROWN'S ALREADY SEMI-EXPOSED SKIRT IS LIFTED FOR ALL AND SUNDRY TO SEE

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CLARE BROWN AND THE RM110 MILLION EXPENSES SCANDAL THAT ROCKED BRITISH PARLIAMENT

In Malaysia, Gordon would have been investigated by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC), the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM), MACC, the Attorney General’s chambers and Bank Negara (BNM) just the way Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak was. Yet, he got off scot free in the UK despite paying members of his immediate family with hard-earned taxpayer-money just to clean his Westminster flat!

REPORTED BY THE THIRD FORCE

On the 4^th of November 2009, at 6.48 GMT, Sean Noonan of the Stratfor Global Intelligence team sent an email concerning cuts in expenses that were imposed upon British lawmakers. In the email, Noonan referred to a report that spoke of questionable claims made by British Members of Parliament (MPs), leaked to The Telegraph by an unidentified government official.

Noonan was referring to the United Kingdom (UK) Parliamentary Expenses Scandal (PES), a major blow to the premiership of Gordon Brown that violently rocked the British House of Commons. In May 2009, Gordon came under intense scrutiny both by the media and the British parliament following revelations that he used taxpayers’ money to pay his wife (Sarah Brown), brother (Andrew Brown) and sister in-law (Clare Rewcastle Brown) to manage his housekeeping.

Noonan’s mail came months after his colleague, Lauren Goodrich, pointed out in another email that the crisis had cost Gordon at the polls and was bound to bring his premiership to an end. And she was right – amid public outrage over the scandal and the lack of commitment towards criminal prosecutions (which did eventually take place in 2010), support for Gordon’s Labour party took its worst beating ever in a century during the local elections held on the 4^th of June 2009 for all of UK’s 27 County Councils.

On the 8^th of May that year, The Telegraph shocked the nation when it spread the entire list of MPs and their expenses claims in print (see also screenshot below). The findings by the British daily – which, for the record, were legit and never challenged by Gordon – included details of a house swap arrangement that allowed the then premier to transfer his claims under the Additional Costs Allowance (ACA).

CURRENT / IN THE LATEST SALVO BY RAGGIE JESSY/THE THIRD FORCE, CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S ALREADY SEMI-EXPOSED SKIRT IS LIFTED EVER HIGHER FOR ALL AND SUNDRY TO SEE

IN what seems to be developing into a very public and acidic spat between two giants of electronic media, Raggie Jessy or The Third Force fires another blow to the Sarawak Report camp with the revelation of Clare Rewcastle Brown's murky, yet suppressed past.

For those who have sighted this aspect of her past life, it is worth a revisit. For those who hasn't, enjoy the revelation, in the well-crafted flowing style that The Third Force is known for by now. 

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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2. RELATED: MP'S EXPENSES: HOW BROWN AND HIS CABINET EXPLOIT EXPENSES SYSTEM
3. RELATED: MP'S EXPENSES: GORDON BROWN'S HOUSE SWAP THAT LET HIM CLAIM THOUSANDS
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EVIDENCE SURFACES THAT CLARE BROWN AND HUBBY STOLE TAXPAYERS' MONEY

The scandal was deemed by the British House of Commons as a deliberate act of criminal malfeasance on Gordon’s part and an abuse of position by a public official to receive gratification. Ms. Rewcastle took the heat off herself and her husband by gallantly defending Gordon, saying, “He definitely needed a cleaner when in London, and it was part of his expenses entitlement”.

REPORTED BY THE THIRD FORCE via MALAYSIA TODAY

The Third Force (TTF) is a propaganda blog, says Clare Rewcastle Brown.

According to the Chief Editor of Sarawak Report, TTF “is not a news portal, but a habitually libellous propaganda blog that shouldn’t have been cited by any newspaper.” Ironically, this lady chose to air her fury via Free Malaysia Today (FMT), a Nelson Fernandez run portal that received RM12 million from John Soh between the years 2009 and 2014.

Even more ironical is the fact that the article was written by a Nawar Firdaws, an FMT columnist who was seen intimately dancing with the DAP’s Zairil Christopher in several photos at a drinking hole in the Hartamas area. Despite repeated claims by bloggers and freelance writers of the illicit love affair, FMT and the DAP remained tight lipped about the whole thing and went so far as to censor reports that even so much as mentioned Zairil’s name for several days.

'Apparently, the hand holding incident involving Zairil Christopher of DAP and FMT's Nawar Firdaws took place in Kuching - SeaDemon.' 

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Now, doesn’t this go a long way to show just how credibly and morally unsound FMT is? And is it just a coincidence that Nawar, having been accused of flirting with someone known to be a Lim Kit Siang apologist and stooge, was Ms. Rewcastle’s choice of a ‘journalist’ to take pot-shots at TTF? 

But then, it is not as if the FMT editorial came as a ‘huge surprise’ to me. 

After all, it takes one fake news portal to know another, which explains just why FMT religiously features claims made by Sarawak Report, including the infamous one where Ms. Rewcastle ‘mocked’ PAS president Dato’ Seri Abdul Hadi Awang for failing to sue her. 

The said article, published by FMT on the 8^th of April 2017, quoted the disgraced British journalist as saying that PAS failed to sue her despite threatening to do so. The Sarawak Report chief editor was referring to a letter of demand that Hadi’s United Kingdom (UK) lawyers issued her portal on the 13^th of December 2016. 

“They threatened to sue me within a week if I didn’t do lots of things in mid-December… but didn’t,” she said. 

But she may have spoken too soon. 

Nineteen days after that cocky and sarcastic jibe, Hadi got his lawyers to file a defamation suit against her and Sarawak Report at a High Court in London. The suit pertained allegations made by Sarawak Report that the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak, had solicited political favours from Hadi by offering the latter a RM90 million bribe. 

Ideally, the suit should have been the ‘chance of a lifetime’ for Ms. Rewcastle to prove what she had been saying all along, that the Prime Minister of Malaysia was criminally perverse and morally corrupt, enough to offer bribes just to tighten his grip on government. Instead, she failed to offer the London Court even a shred of the “smoking gun evidence” she claimed to possess despite being given months to do so. 

And that’s not all. 

This lady, who “personifies herself to be the defender of truth and justice,” even had the cheek to tell the presiding judge that she ignored past letters sent by Hadi’s lawyers as none of the others she received ended in court battles. She made that bold yet reckless claim during a Case Management hearing on the 6th of August 2017 that was called to decide the amount Hadi needed to deposit with the court as security. 

Now isn’t that tantamount to telling the judge that you’re a habitual delinquent?

And yet, she labelled my portal a “habitually libellous propaganda blog” that the mainstream media should keep a ten-foot pole distance from. Tell me, who is this white piece of trash to dictate terms to the Malaysian mainstream media? How can anyone trust a lady who conspired with her own husband to defraud British taxpayers of their hard-earned money between the years 2004 and 2006? 

'You read right - Ms. Rewcastle and her husband, Andrew Brown, were accused of receiving thousands in taxpayer money between the years 2004 and 2006 just to 'clean' the then British premier's Westminster flat.' 

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And that, my friends, is not fake news, but the legitimate findings of the British House of Commons as reported by The Telegraph on 8^th of May 2009 (screen capture below). The British daily implied that the then Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown, had abused his position in power by “paying his brother” using taxpayer money “for cleaning services at his private flat at Westminter.”

MP'S EXPENSES: HOW BROWN AND HIS CABINET EXPLOIT EXPENSES SYSTEM
Gordon Brown and his most senior ministers are facing questions over their use of parliamentary expenses after the Daily Telegraph revealed details their claims. – The Daily Telegraph, May 8, 2009 

And just in case you are wondering who Gordon’s brother is, think no further – he is none other than Andrew Brown, Ms. Rewcastle’s partner in wedlock. According to the daily, receipts submitted by Gordon to the Parliamentary authorities disclosed that between 2004 and 2006, he paid Andrew £6,577 (worth some £21,000 by today’s standards) over 26 months just to clean his flat!

And if that isn’t enough evidence to convince you just how corrupt the Browns are, following is the cut-and-dry proof (also reproduced below) that will tell you the kind of trash this white spin-master of a journalist is: 

FOCUS / REVISITING HADI AWANG'S COURTROOM VICTORY AGAINST THE MIGHTY DAILY MIRROR; HADI IS CURRENTLY SUING CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN AND SARAWAK REPORT

MANY commenters had forgotten that YB Abdul Hadi Awang, MP is no stranger to the British legal system, and in fact have had a successful outing in the UK, using the same lawyer he is currently retaining. 

A good general always knows to stick to the same dark horse that wins the race, and YB Abdul Hadi Awang is looking ever the confident commander after winning his case in 2007.

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LEADING MALAYSIAN POLITICIAN WINS LIBEL COMPLAINT AGAINST DAILY MIRROR OVER FALSE TERRORISM ALLEGATIONS

The Defendant has explained that the photograph was published in error by the newspaper, and that it was intended to refer to a completely different person, the suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist Mr Abdul Hadi Al Iraqi. Mr Hadi Awang has no connection whatsoever with that person. The article has caused Mr Hadi Awang great embarrassment and distress.

CARTER-RUCK PRESS RELEASE

19 October 2007 

The Daily Mirror today apologised in the High Court to Mr Abdul Hadi Awang, a well-known Malaysian politician and an eminent Muslim scholar, over false allegations that he was, among other things, the Al Qaeda “number 3” and that he was being held in Guantanamo Bay.

BREAKING / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN TALKS BACK ABOUT HER CASE IN LONDON

THE NINE QUESTIONS Panel notes with interest Clare Rewcastle Brown's strange attempt at a sorry excuse for a media spin to dig herself out of the hole she is digging herself ever deeper into.

Below, we will reproduce her response to the recent news concerning her alleged failure to submit her defence before the 4.00 pm deadline on August 30, 2017.

The NINE QUESTIONS Panel will interject the article with comments shown in grey.

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SARAWAK REPORT EDITOR TIGHT-LIPPED ON DEFENCE AGAINST HADI'S SUIT

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“I will not reply in detail at this point, as my lawyers are handling this matter.” However, Rewcastle-Brown said the blog post was a “malicious and highly inaccurate” spin and NST should not have republished its claims as though the blog is an accurate or reliable source of information.

REPORTED BY MALAYSIAKINI via MALAYSIA CHRONICLE

Whistleblower site Sarawak Report’s editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown is tight-lipped regarding her defence against PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s defamation suit against her.

“I will not reply in detail at this point, as my lawyers are handling this matter,” she told Malaysiakini today via email when queried on the matter, following reports purporting that she failed to file her defence on time. [The NINE QUESTIONS Panel notes with interest the contradictory nature of this statement of reservation from commenting, which is immediately followed by the comment she supposedly wasn't intending to make. This is typical of the forked nature of any conversations involving Clare Brown.]

On August 31, New Straits Times (NST) quoted a blog claiming that Rewcastle-Brown had failed to file her defence by 4pm on August 30 (UK time) and that this is supposedly a violation of an August 2 court order.

The blog reportedly claimed that Rewcastle-Brown’s lawyers would likely file for an extension in October, but the failure would cause alarm to Pakatan Harapan politicians who had demonised Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak based on her reports.

However, Rewcastle-Brown said the blog post was a “malicious and highly inaccurate” spin and NST should not have republished its claims as though the blog is an accurate or reliable source of information.

“There are very real concerns about the release and then deliberate distortion of information relating to the standard management of this case for political propaganda purposes in Malaysia, with the clear purpose of giving false impressions, even before the response to Mr Hadi’s claims have been laid before the court,” she added. 

She also noted that NST had quoted the blog claiming that US sources had purportedly confirmed that Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad had been channelling “millions” into her bank account to topple Najib.

“This is an extremely serious, libellous and wholly untrue accusation of the sort that I have become used to from various anonymous and unattributed fringe blogs, but rarely from an authored article in a mainstream newspaper. Frankly, I am shocked,” she said of the allegation. [Better to be at the fringe than to be a fraud. At this point in the article, we wonder why aren't these statements made through Clare Rewcastle Brown's lawyers, just as she said that they will be handling "this matter" - whether that means in terms of making public statements, or the case matter itself. Either way, it is even stranger still why does Clare Brown refuse to confirm - whether through Sarawak Report, her media friends, or even through her lawyers - that her defence was entered within the stipulated time? A simple statement to that effect would dispel and avoid any unnecessary doubt without actually revealing the contents of the defence. But we are seeing nothing of the sort. We are inclined to believe that Raggie Jessy/The Third Force is telling the truth concerning Clare's alleged failure to provide her defence to the court until she or her lawyer can issue an unequivocal confirmation of the timely submission of her defence. Until that happens, she sounds like she is diverting the matter into another conspiracy theory to preoccupy whatever fanbase she may have left so that they will remain loyal to the end, and perhaps not demand that she return the donation money she gleefully fleeced from her supporters knowing full well that she is fraudulent - Clare Rewcastle Brown is welcome to sue us over this statement - if she dares.]

Hadi is suing Rewcastle-Brown over her allegations that he had received RM90 million.

('Sarawak Report Editor Tight-Lipped on Defence Against Hadi.' – Malaysiakini via Malaysia Chronicle, September 2, 2017)

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CONCLUSION

Clare Rewcastle Brown knows that she is making this public response out of desperation to convince the public that Sarawak Report truly is telling the truth, when the opposite is true.

As the clock ticks, this erratic and contradictory statement made without going through her lawyers shows that there is a severe disconnect between what she knows she should and shouldn't do, and what she ends up doing - and wrongly at that - out of desperation and panic.

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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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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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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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?

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