Sarawak Report has been made privy to extraordinary accusations of betrayal and ‘black magic’ from deep inside Taib Mahmud’s family-run regime, as deadly rivals square up to succeed the failing Chief Minister. Allies of brother-in-law, Adenan Satem, who is fighting a fatal heart disease, have confided that they believe his condition is the work of […]
Chief Minister, Taib Mahmud’s business-partner brother Onn has left some very awkward questions to be answered in Sydney, where his family lives in one of the city’s smartest houses, over-looking the harbour bridge. Documents obtained by Sarawak Report plainly show that Onn Mahmud has offered conflicting information to the Australian authorities, in order first to
The daily shortwave radio show Radio Free Sarawak has faced a number of mysterious disruptions over the past three weeks, prompting a deluge of calls and emails from listeners. The production team says that the massive response and widespread concern from its regular audience has given them the best indication yet of just how popular
The world’s top news agency has now added to the growing number of features questioning Taib Mahmud’s crazy idea to turn Sarawak into a vast ‘Industrial Park’, providing cheap electricity for the world’s dirtiest smelting industries. In its feature on the Murum Dam the recent Reuters article begins with the observation that at least 40
The growing international understanding of Taib’s style of corrupted and kleptocratic (thieving) government is reflected in an opinion piece published this week by Australia’s Canberra Times. The article criticises the “destruction of the Borneo Rainforests” and Taib’s “Great Leap Forward” plans for 12 mega-dams: “There is method in the madness. As critics repeatedly point out,
Almost exactly a year ago Sarawak Report alerted that Taib and his hand-in-glove timber crony Tiong Hiew King were moving in to lay hands on Sarawak’s oil and gas reserves. Now the announcement has been confirmed! RH Petrogas, which is owned by Tiong, has just snatched 80% of a joint venture with Petronas to exploit
Sarawak Report has learnt that campaigners can claim victory after statements yesterday by Hydro Tasmania boss, Roy Adair, pledging that the company is withdrawing from its guiding role over Taib’s mega-dam projects. Adair, who had till recently enthused over Hydro Tasmania’s partnership with Sarawak Energy’s programme of up to 50 dams to power Taib’s ambitious
Freedom of information requests in Australia have recently brought to light the full, unedited interview of SEB Board Member and spokesman, Idris Buang, by the TV programme Dateline, about Sarawak’s mega-dam plans. And his arrogant and incautious remarks, which disparage the native way of life of many of Sarawak’s indigenous tribes, have brought gasps of
Taib has descended from his pedestal to engage with critics of his ‘great leap forward’ plan to plonk 50 hydro-electric dams across Sarawak’s rivers. That is to say, he has raged at unnamed persons from his platform at the DUN, who dared to say that he might not have had such a good idea with
The people advising Sarawak Energy (SEB), in particular Australia’s Hydro Tasmania, have taken every opportunity to portray the dams planned for Sarawak as a ‘sustainable’ and ‘renewable’ energy source, without bad consequences like fossil fuel. Hydro Tasmania in fact frequently implies that dams are “carbon neutral” and has declared that the company itself will become
NCR landowners in Sampadi have learnt the hard way how nothing can be trusted in the hands of BN, with party top dogs now fighting with each other to get hold of their lands. In July a group of 12 villagers from Kampung Gerunggang had decided to sell some of their NCR (Native Customary Rights)
The Taib family’s Australian company, Ta Ann Tasmania, is fuming because protestors held up their saw mills for some hours on Monday and again on Wednesday, by chaining themselves to the conveyor belts. Ta Ann’s spokesperson claimed that the world should be “outraged” and that the passive male and female protestors from the group Groundswell
Nick Wright is the Australian from Tasmania who acts as Vice President at Sarawak Energy Berhad in charge of ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ (CSR). In particular, he is in charge of the ‘re-settlement’ of tens of thousands of indigenous people due to be flooded from their homes by the damming of 12 major rivers. So, surely
The UK’s top selling paper the Daily Mail has also taken up the recent report condemning HSBC for bank-rolling Taib’s greedy destruction of Sarawak’s rain forests. The NGO Global Witness has released a major analysis showing how the bank, which claims to apply ‘green’ principles to its lending criteria, has nevertheless provided lending to such
Last year Mahmud made a big fuss, calling Sarawak Report liars for drawing attention to the fact that he has destroyed nearly all of Sarawak’s rainforest. We had said that less than 5% of the primary jungle remains and even that is now being cut down. But the Chief Minister went on record to deny it
This big black beast of a car is an American Hummer 2 SUV, one of the most expensive vehicles in the world, costing around half a million ringgit on the Malaysian market. For well over a year one of these models, registration number WNX9776, has been driven around KL by Mohamad Nedim Nazri, the son of
Earlier this month, Friday 12th October, onlookers in the Wisma Bapa Malaysia in Kuching were treated to an astonishing scene. The elderly Chief Minister, Taib Mahmud and his very young wife Ragad indulged in a public row in the foyer of his office building. Ragad had apparently turned up at the building and demanded to
Where was Michael Chia on 14th August 2008 ? UMNO have created so many contradictions with their various excuses that they must now produce some evidence. The story started back on that date when it was reported that timber trader Michael Chia had been arrested with RM40million in his suitcase, on his way to Sabah
Police numbers are being increased around the Penan blockade at the Murum Dam. Yesterday, they announced that they had detained an NGO sympathiser, who was bringing food and declared that this humanitarian act was ‘incitement’. “It is not wrong if he had sent the items to the Penans at their longhouse”, stated the local police
As the Penan people of Murum enter the fourth week of their blockade against the Murum Dam, local and international NGOs have rallied to their support. On Friday protestors, surrounded by news reporters, gathered outside Hydro-Tasmania’s impressive tower block headquarters in Hobart to demand that the company cease its lucrative partnership programme with Sarawak Energy.[click
Taib’s BN Ministers have been going blue in the face, complaining “instigators” are behind the Murum blockade and saying that all is now settled with the Penan at Murum dam. Top side kick and very unaccountably wealthy Planning Minister, Awang Tenga has been leading the attack alleging that the community are now happy with the
Prime Minister will surely not mind if we spell out some of the sources of the funds that have been pouring into the UBS accounts managed by Michael Chia, which he now admits were destined for UMNO..
Faced with overwhelming evidence and a criminal enquiry in Switzerland, BN have started admitting to its involvement in the Michael Chia money trafficking scandal linked to Musa Aman, the Chief Minister of Sabah. Musa had previously claimed he had: “no business associations whatsoever with an individual named Michael Chia” However his friend and political ally Mohd
Penan blockaders, who have brought construction on the Murum Dam to a standstill over the past ten days, have reacted with outrage at the news that their assemblyman, BN’s Liwan Lagang, has been telling the media that a settlement has been reached. In response they have instead tightened and extended the blockade to another approach
We want to thank donors to the Murum appeal. CONTRARY TO RUMOURS PUT ABOUT BY BN, THE BLOCKADE IS STILL UNDERWAY AS THE PEOPLE OF MURUM DEMAND FULL NEGOTIATION OVER THEIR DEMANDS. We have raised a growing sum which has already been used to send foodstuffs to the village people blockading at the roadside. The
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We can disclose that shocking revelations from a leaked report are what lie behind the massive road block at the Murum Dam site, where scores of lorries have been brought to a grinding halt by Penan tribespeople. The impoverished hunter-gatherers mounted the desperate protest in response to learning key details of the resettlement and compensation
Hydro-Tasmania’s tantrums over the recent Dateline Australia film ‘Last Fontier’ have been exposed as entirely misleading. A report by Sarawak Energy Bhd has detailed how, contrary to denials, the dam-building company is engaged in a leading ‘co-development’ and ‘partnership’ role in the implementation of Taib’s devastating plans for the so-called Sarawak Corridor of Energy (SCORE). These
Taib Mahmud has kept largely silent over the growing uproar about his vast illegal wealth. However, last year he broke this silence by declaring in the Dun Assembly itself that the news that the Swiss President had agreed to start a formal investigation into his possible assets in Switzerland was a malicious lie: “Let me
Chandra Muzaffar, Chairman of the 1 Malaysia Foundation and a leading BN ‘thinker’, has leapt onto the front pages of the news issuing dire warnings of ‘foreign plots’ to destabilise the government and indeed ‘global security’! In the process he has astoundingly associated BN with a whole slew of slimy dictators, whom peoples across the
Sarawak’s dam builders are learning how hard it is to stem a leak. The truth about Taib’s monstrous plans and their terrible impact on the people and the environment was finally revealed in a film by Australia’s Dateline programme, Last Frontier. Ever since that film was broadcast a couple of weeks ago the big players
He is the man who cashed-in an entire jungle of valuable hard timber. He is also the man who controls all the land titles for an area roughly the size of England, a position which he has systematically abused to enrich himself. Sarawak Chief Minister, Taib Mahmud, is furthermore the gate-keeper for all the state
A story about topless sunbathing has dominated international coverage of the William and Kate Sabah trip. It means the destruction of the jungle of Borneo, caused by corruption in Malaysia’s highest political circles, has been ignored in favour of a lot of fuss about a ‘Peeping Tom’ photographer. One person who will be relieved is
Britain’s major newspaper, the Daily Mail, has described the planned visit by the royal couple, Prince William and Kate, to Sabah as “the first diplomatic row of their fledgeling royal careers” today. The reason? Because the person waiting in Sabah to greet them on Friday is Chief Minister Musa Aman, now “implicated in a criminal
A recent Dateline Australia programme, Last Frontier, addressed some issues of indisputable public interest and concern in both Tasmania and Sarawak. It examined policies in those countries that will affect the lives of tens of thousands of people and destroy some of the world’s remaining forest ecosystems. In short Dateline investigated the plans to flood
With his constituents in revolt over the theft of their lands and destruction of their bridge by loggers, State Assemblyman Snowdan Lawan made an obligatory visit to Balai Ringen yesterday. But, he then hid in the police station and refused to come out and speak to the protestors outside! “There were at least 200 people
This weekend in Melikin police stood by and watched as a bulldozer destroyed the public bridge that had been built by the state to give access to the local people. It was an act of revenge by loggers, who are angry that these people have been trying to protect their Native Customary Lands from being
Today’s confirmation by the Office of the Attorney General in Switzerland that it has opened a criminal investigation against the banking group UBS, over suspected money-laundering on behalf of Musa Aman, looks set to cause an awkward diplomatic upset for the UK. After all, the royal couple Wills and Kate are right now packing their bags
Following the expose on Australia’s Dateline programme last week, Taib’s state government has at last agreed to fulfil its own promises made to the people of Sungai Asap more than ten years ago. Land Development Minister, James Masing has now announced that these refugees are entitled to the homes into which they were forcibly moved
The dirty blogger behind numerous websites commissioned by BN to defame Anwar Ibrahim and also Sarawak Report, has now been sacked as a commentator in the US by the prestigious Guardian Newspaper. The Guardian cited our exposes of Josh Trevino as evidence of his unsuitability as a writer in their statement confirming his dismissal last night.
Hydro-Tasmania hit the airwaves in Australia yesterday, in order to defend their involvement with Taib Mahmud’s schemes to flood Sarawak and destroy its major rivers with twelve new unwanted dams. Roy Adair, the Chief Executive Officer of the state-owned company, sought to play down the company’s involvement in Taib’s insane master plan [..]
Australia’s longest-running and highly prestigious TV current affairs programme, Dateline, has just devoted a full half hour show to the problems of logging in Sarawak and to Taib Mahmud’s crazy plan to build 12 more dams in the state Their veteran reporter, David O’Shea, spent days filming in Sarawak and interviewing people who had been
Five campaigners from Melikin in Balai Ringen were arrested last week after false accusations were made against them by a plantation company. They were later released without charge. We can reveal that the owners of the companies that are grabbing their land are two of Taib Mahmud’s top Ministers!
The people who have been taking action against injustice are changing the mood in Sarawak at a faster and faster pace. Their courage and determination are sweeping away the history of the last decades of destruction[..]
Australia’s support for Taib Mahmud’s SCORE project is becoming ever more deeply questionable, as the corruption surrounding every project in which it has sought to be involved gets plainer by the day. The message should be coming through clear by now. If you do business with Taib Mahmud’s Sarawak then you are immersing yourself in
The Chief Minister is well known for his obsession with black magic and omens, despite his proclaimed Muslim faith, which bans both. Sinister black birds are known to been allowed to hop freely around his home in Damak Jaya, spooking guests. The basement is packed with shrines and bomoh artefacts, all part of Taib’s attempt
Yet another ministerial mansion has sprouted up in Kuching and it tells us all we need to know about the corruption of the state. The proud owner is Awang Tengah, the Second Minister for Planning in Sarawak and after a year of construction he has just moved in [..]
Sime Darby is Malaysia’s largest company and the world’s largest palm oil conglomerate. It is predominately owned and controlled by the Malaysian Government. So, maybe little surprise that it is enmeshed in corruption, as laid bare by the arrest and charges against its former Chief Executive this week over the misappropriation of millions of ringgit.
As HSBC’s Global Head of Compliance resigned in disgrace yesterday, acknowledging the bank had turned a blind eye to a staggering $38 trillian dollars of suspect transactions, thoughts in Sabah will have returned to the financial affairs of their Chief Minister, Musa Aman. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) report into timber kickbacks (a case described
The huge homes belonging to Taib Mahmud’s political allies is one of the unanswered and glaring issues in Sarawak. How come so many ministers and YBs, who started on their political careers with no wealth at all, have ended up living in such style, when the salaries for public office are quite rightly modest? There
Fear of gangsters is widespread in Sarawak and with good reason. These are the operators outside the law who enforce the greedy land grabs and logging concessions handed out by Taib to his cronies. By using gangsters, Taib and his business partners avoid being directly implicated and can pretend to have nothing to do with
Many of the world’s worst dictators try to claim legitimacy through the ballot box, so that they can proudly claim that they are voted time and again into office by their ‘loving’ people. In fact, they cheat. Taib is one of these and probably the only person he is fooling is himself. The methods Taib
All human beings can understand justice. Where there is injustice it is up to our law-makers to legislate to prevent it and then for our courts to uphold those laws. But in Sarawak, where growing numbers of poor communities are being forced to desperate measures to save their lands and livelihoods, we often see the courts
Tens of thousands of families are being forced from their homes by Taib’s fanatical dam projects across the state.However, there is another equally devastating piece-meal process of eviction going on, as plantation companies continue to bully the longhouse folk from their native lands. As the Ibans of Rumah Niah dress for ‘war’, have Taib’s land grabbers pushed too far this time?
Make no mistake, the authors of written parliamentary answers in response to awkward questions choose their words with utmost care. Najib is no different. MP Chua Tian Chang had enquired of the Prime Minister what had happened to the Anti-Corruption Commission investigation into major money-laundering by the Sabah resident Michael Chia, who is a known
The complaint in Switzerland against UBS AG, for banking timber kickbacks on behalf Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman, has been transferred from the Zurich public prosecutor to the office of the Attorney General. This raises the matter to a federal level, indicating the potential seriousness of the case. It has prompted the country’s weekly business
Another mega-corruption project has just been awarded to Sarawak’s ‘Construction YBs’. Sarawak Report has frequently exposed how a large number of elected YBs have become directors and shareholders of construction companies, which then benefit to the tune of millions of ringgit from public contracts handed to them by their political boss, the Chief Minister, Taib Mahmud.
A complaint under Swiss criminal law has been lodged by lawyers against UBS AG bank. It follows our devastating revelations about the bank’s involvement in the channelling of nearly a hundred million dollars of timber kickback money, linked to the Chief Minister of Sabah, Musa Aman. We have demonstrated how the Hong Kong branch of
Sabah Chief Minister, Musa Aman, branded Sarawak Report maliciously motivated liars and implied we were master forgers. However, we now challenge him to name the Swiss bank UBS AG liars as well, because their submissions to a current court case in Singapore confirm our evidence! [..]
We have learnt that hospital staff in Lawas were instructed by the local YB, Awang Tenggah (Taib’s favoured side-kick), to keep quiet about an outbreak of Dengue Fever last month. The extraordinary intervention occurred at an emergency meeting at the hospital during the week before the Lawas Festival, after several cases had been reported in
DJ Peter John Jaban has now made contact with his colleagues at RFS. He called early today and admitted to running away, because he feared he would be hurt if he was questioned by the police. “I can come to a police station with my lawyer, provided the police are not rough with me” he
Police now say they are searching for Peter John Jaban, the Radio Free Sarawak presenter, following concerns about his disappearance. However, colleagues are now coming to the conclusion that Peter John, known as Papa Orang Utan to listeners, has most likely hidden himself voluntarily after becoming scared after being detained at KK airport. Today the station
The team at Radio Free Sarawak have still to receive any news of their presenter Peter John Jaban, who went off the radar yesterday, shortly after arriving in Miri. He had texted and telephoned from the airport in Kota Kinabalu that he had been detained by the authorities while boarding a morning flight to Sarawak.
“We just hope it is the police and not Taib’s people”, one of Peter’s friends observed today. It was a comment that sums up the mistrust and fear in Sarawak. The truth is that this afternoon no one can be sure what has happened to Peter John Jaban, known as Papa Orang Utan by listeners of
For half a century UMNO/BN and Taib have sucked out billions of ringgit from Sarawak’s natural resources. In return they have given cheap bribes at election time to the impoverished local people, who have seen none of the benefit of this wealth. But promises are even cheaper than bribes and BN politicians are therefore even
Today the Iban communities of Sebangan are celebrating yet another victory against Taib and the BN government of Sarawak. These people own the rights to one of the last remaining areas of un-destroyed rainforest in the region north of Kuching. However, Taib’s greedy sister Raziah could not bear to think of those trees still left
The UK has changed government 11 times since the date that Malaysia was given independence and in the same period France has had 20 Prime Ministers. However, during that entire 55 years UMNO/BN has grasped onto power, while at the same time calling Malaysia a democracy. The result has been predictable. The few families in
The Green Party in Australia is demanding explanations from Hydro-Tasmania about what exactly its subsidiary Entura is up to in Sarawak? Investigations by Sarawak Report have revealed that Entura, which acts as a consultancy arm of Australia’s publicly owned company, Hydro-Tasmania, has become deeply involved in a whole range of projects [..]
The Malaysian Prime Minister got a flavour of genuine democracy, when he ventured onto the stage in London’s O2 Arena last night and was promptly drowned out by the sound of protest! This is not something he would ever expect to have to put up with at home, in ‘the world’s most perfect democracy’, where
Speculation has dragged on for months about when Najib is going to summon up courage and call an election. Many believed it would be today, Monday, with a polling day for June 9th. But, surely even Najib Razak’s pricey foreign PR teams would hardly suggest launching an election campaign from the other side of the
The Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, has hired London’s top venue to stage a self-promoting event, all at the cost of taxpayers, next week! The O2 Arena, known locally as the Dome, is one of the UK capital’s most eye-catching modern landmarks and it will feature as a key location for the up-coming Olympics. It
The Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has confirmed to Sarawak Report that he fully intends to sue the New Straits Times, despite the newspaper’s grovelling apologies yesterday. It means that Malaysia’s abuse and manipulation of the media has become an issue across three continents since the weekend, with the BBC and Al Jazeera also opening enquiries
Malaysia’s attempts to cover up the scandal over the international money laundering of illegal timber money by Sabah’s Chief Minister, Musa Aman, is beginning to unravel. Following our release of several of the highly incriminating documents that have come into our possession relating to the case, a number of international bodies have started to take
The Middle East’s leading TV News Service, Al Jazeera, has given its own appalled reaction to the discovery that its coverage of Saturday’s Bersih 3.0 rally may have also have been doctored by Malaysia’s Astro satellite station. In an uncompromising statement a spokesman today declared: “We have not been censored in this way by another
The Astro satellite channel have contacted Sarawak Report to acknowledge that they DID censor the BBC news report on the Bersih 3.0 rally! Moreover, they have defiantly criticised the internationally respected British Broadcasting Corporation for questioning their right to do so! The issue goes to the heart of the issues over democracy in Malaysia and
The BBC in London has issued a statement saying it is urgently seeking explanations over the apparent doctoring of one of its news reports by the Malaysian satellite broadcaster Astro. A copy of the allegedly censored report has been circulated widely on You Tube since the weekend, showing how what was broadcast to viewers on
There was no tear gas in Belgrave Square today, but plenty of dripping umbrellas amid a sea of banners and masks, worn by students determined to defy threats and menaces that they could lose their grants if seen to support Bersih 3![..]
Sarawak Report has obtained copies of a highly intimidating email that has been sent out by an official from Malaysia’s Education Department in Washington to all Malaysian students receiving grants in the United States[..]
The Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party have been lashing out at each other in recent months like a bunch of vicious crocodiles. Five members have walked out and now they are fighting with the party leader, William Mawan, over who should contest which seat for BN at the coming Federal Election. So, it is perhaps no
A statement from the Swiss Attorney General’s office, published today in a national newspaper, has added further dramatic proof to our evidence that Sabah’s Chief Minister, Musa Aman, has been under investigation over timber kickbacks worth at least US$90million. The Zurich-based Sunday weekly, Sonntagszeitung, was following up on our reports that the Hong Kong authorities had
A court case, lodged in the High Court of Sabah in Sandakan in February, raises further questions over the business relationship between the Chief Minister, Musa Aman, and the family of Michael Chia, as well as the lawyer Richard Christopher Barnes. Aman has denied that Michael Chia was his favoured ‘adopted son’ or that he
A multi-million US dollar account, opened in the name of Richard Christopher Barnes with the Swiss Bank UBS in Hong Kong, was operating under written instructions that the money was to be held in trust for Musa Aman, according to evidence gained from the Hong Kong authorities. A letter, dated 25th May 2007 and now
Musa Aman, Sabah’s Chief Minister, has come out to publicly deny that he had any business relationship with the timber trade ‘fixer’ Michael Chia, thereby implying that the hundreds of documents that have been released into our possession, along with the testimony of industry insiders, are false. ” I wish to put it on record once
As all Malaysia now knows, BN/UMNO’s grip on power relies on the continuing support of two corrupted Chief Ministers in East Malaysia. Both Taib Mahmud and Musa Aman are up to their eyes in money stolen from their people and from the destruction of their home states through unsustainable logging and oil palm plantation. Many
Documents leaked from a Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) enquiry have provided devastating evidence of the Sabah Chief Minister, Musa Aman’s, personal involvement in a massive timber kickback scandal, which insiders say has been subject to a high level political cover-up. Aman has always denied that he was linked to allegations surrounding the Sabah timber trader
According to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) documents obtained by Sarawak Report, Malaysia’s Foreign Minister, Anifar Aman, has been the secret beneficiary of lucrative timber licences in Sabah’s dwindling Forest Reserves. The concessions came thanks to his brother, the local Chief Minister, Musa Aman. The documents form part of a major investigation by the MACC into
If you follow the money, the real motive behind Taib’s mega-projects becomes clear. We can now expose how the Chief Minister has managed to ensure that his own son, Abu Bekir Taib, has won the jackpot contract for the current dam construction at Murum! [..]
Today Sarawak Report has decided to take a respite from investigative activity and to allow some pictures to speak for themselves. In a recent statement, the Taib-owned timber company, Ta Ann, has sought to refute concerns that it is responsible for environmental degeneration and human exploitation in Sarawak. It has also accused Radio Free Sarawak
The question marks over Taib’s pet mega-project, the billion dollar Bakun Dam, have just multiplied into a full-blown crisis for the so-called ‘CEO of Sarawak’. The global mining company, Rio Tinto Alcan, has just announced that it is pulling out of the much-touted aluminium smelter venture, SALCO [..]
Outraged readers of Sarawak Report have been queuing up to dish the dirt on BN’s Dirty Datuks over the past few days. We have received widespread information about corrupted practices from insiders, who are clearly sickened by the greedy YBs, who have been cheating their constituents for decades. And it seems that many of those
We can demonstrate that Malaysia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, the BN/SUPP MP for Serian Richard Riot, has also been involved in the disgusting practice of profiting out of projects meant for his own constituency. In this case a RM9.3million ringgit road building project has been awarded to a company he controls through his son, Akjaemura Jaya
Women in the West are given to grumbling about the ‘glass ceiling’ that prevents even the most qualified and hard-working females from getting top management jobs and directorships. However, their Sarawak sisters seem to have no such difficulties – as long as they are Datins that is. The ‘Super Datins’ of Sarawak seem to achieve
Former BN State Assemblyman, Lihan Jok, famously lectured his constituents that the Baram Dam was “a gift from God”. But, who does Lihan Jok mean by God? The Baram Dam is a man made project and it will destroy some of the last remaining areas of untouched beauty on God’s Earth. So, by ‘God’ was
Over the past few days we have exposed some of the corrupt hand outs that have benefitted BN’s Dirty Datuks. But, once someone has embarked on cheating their people to get rich, they don’t stop. They keep looking for more. So, we now present some more of the corrupt sources of income [..]
The Federal MP for Hulu Rejang is revealed as the Director and key shareholder of a company that was supposed to be owned by his constituents and which has received huge public contracts and timber concessions. Wargana Consortium Sdn Bhd, is also exposed for promoting illegal logging [..]
Over recent days, PRS leader James Masing has attempted to defend the indefensible regarding his political persecution of a disabled man and his admission that he and his deputy sought kickbacks for NCR lands, taken for plantations. So, we await his excuses over our latest information[..]
The highly effective campaign to prevent Taib’s family company Ta Ann from destroying Tasmania, like Sarawak, is making Pinocchios out of politicians there! Last week the state’s Deputy Premier, Bryan Green, was subjected to national humiliation when he became the top story on Australia’s ABC news for supporting the company’s claims [..]
The BN Agriculture Minister, Mong Dagang, who demanded a disabled man be deprived of his RM300 a month support and the PRS leader, James Masing, who supported his action, have both been caught seeking illegal kickbacks for themselves worth ten of millions!
They were making the money out of NCR land defrauded from their own constituents in the same area!
Over the past week we have exposed how public contracts amounting to RM100million were gifted to two companies belonging to two of Taib’s key BN allies.
However, the largesse corruptly handed out to to the immediate family of Deputy Chief Minister, Alfred Jabu and their politically connected colleagues has dwarfed such sums.
First we exposed his massive timber concessions and enormous oil palm plantations, now we can detail how Assistant Minister for Entrepreneur Development, Naroden Majais, has received RM100million in government contracts for his construction company!
Two of Taib’s right hand political allies, Datuk Naroden Majais and Datuk Hamden Bin Ahmad are major shareholders in a company that has been handed vast tracks of timber concessions in the Baram area. The concessions total 840 square kilometres!
Earlier this week we exposed how Baram’s Federal MP, Jacob Sagan, was secretly bought by a series of timber concessions and construction contracts, worth hundreds of millions of ringgit, into supporting Taib’s proposals to flood his own region with a new monster dam project. However, Sagan is just one of an army of Dirty Datuks
More information has been coming to light about the corrupted business ventures of Dato Jacob Sagan, Malaysia’s Deputy Minister for International Trade and Industry.
The people of Baram have been sold down their own river by their native MP, the Federal Deputy Trade & Industry Minister Jacob Sagan!
Sarawak Report has received exclusive information, indicating that the local man’s support for Taib’s plans to flood his own area has been bought by two large timber concessions[..]
As the Ukit people perch pitifully on the edge of the waters that drowned their homes, Taib Mahmud has moved swiftly to maximise his own personal profit from the Bakun Dam. A series of astonishing deals are now being processed, all designed to ensure that his own family companies get enormous kickbacks [..]
These are the scenes they have been trying to hide, by setting up an exclusion zone to prevent NGOs and journalists from entering the region behind the Bakun Dam. However, Bruno Manser Fund workers have managed to breech that barrier in order to get exclusive pictures of the devastation behind the dam, which has now
The crowds passing through ‘Malaysia’s Speakers’ Corner’ on Trafalgar Square had the pleasure of watching cartoons being created live this weekend, as the ‘notorious’ Zunar took his campaign to London.[..]
Displaced families, who have received so little compensation from Bakun, may be interested to learn how Taib and his own family are planning to make billions out of the dam project, based on an investment of just RM2.00![..]
Campaigns on opposite sides of the globe are focusing attention on Sarawak today – and on those foreign companies that have been tempted to do business with the corrupted government of Taib Mahmud. In Switzerland the Bruno Manser Fund launches its stop www.stop-corruption-dams.org, in coordination with an international coalition of NGOs who are protesting at Taib Mahmud’s
BN mouthpieces, such as the Borneo Post, have been working hard to discredit the integrity of Sarawak Report and all our investigations into the corruption behind the destruction of the Borneo Rainforest and its peoples. They refer to mysterious “hidden agendas” and have quoted accusations that we are producing “baseless and mischievous” information resting on
For the first time people in the UK are beginning to wake up to the Malaysian High Commissioner, who turns out to be a fellow called Datuk Seri Zakaria Sulong. This is because he has just made the most extraordinary series of insensitive and highly undiplomatic remarks, if a report by the Borneo Post is
With Taib insisting he can only scrape together a miserable RM3.47million to alleviate all the hard core rural poverty in the state, it fairly beggars belief that he has felt it appropriate to generously donate land worth at least RM30million to the members of the Sarawak Club. The Sarawak Club comprises all the richest people
One very old adage is that you can’t bring your material wealth into the next world. Plenty of ancient cultures hoped otherwise, packing fabulous riches into the tombs and pyramids of greedy past rulers. But it was the tomb raiders who had the last laugh on them. More recent sufferers from excessive greed have invested
Industry insiders have revealed that the main suppliers of timber to the cheating Asia Plywood Company, are the well-known Sarawak tycoons, the Miri-based Hii family. Asia Plywood, which rents the major saw mill ‘Tegas Kesuma’, based in Tanjung Manis, is Malaysia’s largest plywood company. Earlier this week it was caught out deceiving regulators and customers
Two of Britain’s top chain stores have been caught out deceiving their customers over ‘eco-friendly’ wood by our latest Sarawak expose, which has also been taken up by the leading UK paper, the Daily Mail. We can demonstrate that B & Q and Wickes, which both specialise in selling building and decorating materials, have been
The Conservative Party’s ex-Environment Spokesman, Bill Wiggin, agreed to play a starring role in videos promoting Sime Darby, after enjoying a luxury trip to Malaysia sponsored by the company. The palm oil giant, headed by former Deputy PM Musa Hitam, has been exposed as a major client of FBC Media, the disgraced British public relations
The Chief Minister is not used to criticism and stamps like an angry child in the face of it. This is a great weakness, because it means that wrongs are not put right and fawning publicity can make him a laughing stock. This week his Press Secretary, Amin Sahmat, got into a terrible twist trying to explain the cancelling of the once regular post-cabinet press conferences, as reported in the Borneo Post.[..]
Bruno Manser Fund’s research team have done the world another favour. They have conducted a careful and painstaking analysis of the leaked Land & Survey Department information…we can now see clearly the extraordinary extent of the theft carried out by the Chief Minister and his family of Sarawak’s native and state-owned lands[..]
The Chief Minister of Sarawak faces the humiliation of being prosecuted for cheating members of his own community in a Kuching court. Some of the potential plaintiffs are among his own constituents! [..]
So the New Year has seen yet another legal climbdown by BN! First it was Taib, now it has been Najib’s turn to bottle out of a court case which should never have been brought [..]
So, the threats and bluster have come to naught. What a non-surprise! Taib Mahmud launched his libel case against Malaysiakini way back in 2008, thundering from the State Assembly that the evidence that his brother’s company had accepted kickbacks from Japanese shipping companies seeking licences to export Sarawak’s timber was “lies” [..]
