French Swoop on ‘KAQ’s’ 1MDB Funded Assets Worth €130 – €150 Million
As the Abu Dhabi fund IPIC sets about suing Goldman Sachs, the convicted former CEO and Chair of the IPIC subsidiary Aabar has seen the seizure of his assets in France………
As the Abu Dhabi fund IPIC sets about suing Goldman Sachs, the convicted former CEO and Chair of the IPIC subsidiary Aabar has seen the seizure of his assets in France………
Banks like Goldman Sachs have acted with a sense of impunity. But they won’t fool anyone that they were fooled by Jho Low…..
Malaysia is doing the world a service by going after Goldman Sachs…..
UMNO’s most enthusiastic remaining supporters seem now to be from the party which claims to champion those who have been worst hit by the corruptions of the past administration……..
Malaysia may be termed an ’emerging democracy’, but has it provided a potential pathway for the hard-pressed law-enforcers of the United States?…. COMMENTARY
Cambridge University is hosting a conference next week, at which the organisers claim ex-Najib Razak will speak. Some mistake? We think so!………
Evidence that Jamal Khashoggi was apparently paid $100,000 USD, obtained from 1MDB cash, to pen puff pieces promoting ex-Malaysian PM Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah will sadden fellow journalists……..
1MDB moves from banking to expose the dirty world of lobbying, including top rapper Pras Michael who took US influence peddlers to visit Jho Low at Robert Kuok’s Shangri-La Hotel in Bangkok…..
Abu Dhabi’s Wealth Fund Has Waded Into a Legal Battle That Threatens To Engulf The Powerful US Bank…….
How much money will Malaysia see as others crowd in to take their pickings and certain assets remain unchallenged?
As Leissner Points A Finger At His Colleagues, Questions Remain About When His Crimes Began?…….
What is it that Paul Stadlen has information on that is of so much interest to the authorities, why doesn’t he want to tell them and how was he paid for so many years for his dedicated service to Najib? ……
“Accounting controls easily circumnavigated”; “repeated success concealing Jho Low’s involvement” and “in pushing these deals” through Goldman’s “control functions”….
The United States has taken the big step into criminal proceedings over 1MDB. First to be indicted are not only Jho Low, but also two top officials of America’s most powerful bank. Watch as this scandal goes global….
Australian Greens have demanded Ta Ann meet with them to confirm the reported actions of their company and the police against peaceful protestors in Sarawak……
Hobart Oration focused on the impact of corrupt leadership on vulnerable people and the environment, both in Malaysia and across the globe……
Malaysians could only come to one conclusion as they watched their former prime minister’s receding back, which is that Najib must plead guilty now and spare himself and his country further disastrous public humiliation….
The GPS re-positioning programme is getting underway and local Sarawakians need to see it for what it is, which is yet more betrayal by greedy ex-BN political datuks……..
Sarawak Report first exposed leaks on the use of the inflated ECRL contract to service 1MDB debt repayments in 2016. Najib denied it and now he denies charges of Criminal Breach of Trust …..
Exposing a prime minister is one thing. However, Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal is set to shine a searing light on global finance and the rampant abuse of off-shore secrecy. It’s a job that needs doing……
Malaysians and Indonesians need to wake up. The time for trashing their responsibilities in Borneo is over – regenerating the rainforest on the world’s largest tropical island could contain the global warming disaster and Shell has offered to help (sort of)……
Why is Najib seeking to yet again deflect blame onto Sarawak Report as he publicly interfers with an ongoing trial?
Why is the ex-PM so determined to deny that public prosecutor Kevin Morais was involved in drawing up a charge sheet against him in the weeks before he was kidnapped and murdered?…….
We suggest that offence has been taken for something that was not implied and are happy to clarify the matter….
The WSJ authors apparently concede “Sarawak Report also received” the documents. Read the detail on how that was…..
Given it has been reported that the book Billion Dollar Whale alleges author Tom Wright was contacted by the source of the information on Najib’s bank accounts, is he willing to admit that the source was another journalist, namely Sarawak Report and not an anonymous entity calling itself “SaveMalaysia”?………
Will US prosecutors be tempted to settle with Jho Low in order to concentrate on prosecuting America’s top bank Goldman Sachs over 1MDB?…….
Gagged for months, Deepak has at last revealed why he had withdrawn an earlier defence statement in the Selvi Bala case, in which he had admitted to conspiring to silence her husband over the Altantuya murder case……
Najib’s defence lawyer has now admitted he publicly lied about receiving money from the PM’s bank account, but has a complicated excuse……
UK lawyers Schillings have informed third parties that the reporting by Sarawak Report about 1MDB contains ‘speculative, unproven and untested allegations’ as they seek to deter publishers……
Second only to repealing SOSMA and other oppressive laws, as promised, there should be a thorough investigation into the perceived undermining of Malaysia’s judiciary….
BN’s wealthy old guard still hope they can guard their riches through paying expensive lawyers to fight a rear guard action against Malaysia’s anti-corrupton drive. It means the new government has a battle on its hands but right on its side, as the momentum of prosecutrions gets underway….
The US nightclub chain linked to the former Aabar chief now cited for defrauding 1MDB is still paying out millions in salaries and director’s fees, despite huge operating losses worldwide…..
Limited window – your opportunity to pre-order the Sarawak Report on the inside story of the 1MDB expose…..
The heartless vandalism being presently tolerated against the remaining jungles and indigenous people of Kelantan brings shame to the nation and will stain the reputation of ‘New Malaysia’ in the eyes of future generations, unless urgent action is taken to stop the ‘godly’ state government’s disgraceful sponsorship of destructive logging……
EXCLUSIVE – the letter of dismissal sent to Sam Mannan spelt out his shameful betrayal of trust in the management of Sabah’s great rainforests……
Sadly, Sarawakians cannot safely entrust the management of their oil in the hands of the present state government. Based on past experience they won’t see a penny of it!…….
Yet again we hear how a former AG claimed “there has been no wrong-doing” by a blatant kleptocrat in Malaysia. Taib has run Sarawak for his own personal enrichment for forty years. If he did ‘not break any rules’ it signifies an absence of rule of law……
Jho Low has become the Scarlet Pimpernel of Asia, but his ability to evade the forces of law and order owes less to daring disguise and more to geo-political game playing…..
Naturally, the IGP did not use public funds to transport senior foreign counterparts and entertain them at his daughters wedding. However, correspondence implies exactly that…….
Blogger who complained about an assault at a massage parlour found himself told to apologise and withdraw his complaint. When he refused he says he was prosecuted for extortion, beaten up and harassed…..
Najib and his new defence lawyer make a less than convincing, but perfect pair given their track record together over many years……
The luxury multi million dollar car collection signifies further potential for 1MDB’s global quest to retrieve assets stolen from the fund…..
Former business associate has suggested the figure stashed away in accounts across the globe will top RM100 billion, shining a devastating light on the greed and failures of the global banking system……
For years Sarawak Report has detailed alleged corruption by Musa Aman, much of it contained within an MACC report that festered on the desk of ex-AG Gani Patail……..
The acknowledgement was made by counsel acting for the PAS leader yesterday in the London High Court. However, they indicated the meaning of the words has been misinterpreted. Hadi’s legal team also indicated that Nik Abduh will now appear as a witnesses in the case…..
Will law enforcers make the next step and seize assets from the third party actors in the 1MDB misappropriation or will the likes of GSI do the right thing and and regurgitate those gross bonuses grabbed from Malaysia?…..
Najib pleaded total innocence during his Reuters scoop interview this week, as he treated his family and sprawling entourage to a luxury holiday, where they all felt sorry for themselves…….
Bogus Sarawak website Sarawak Bersatu was commissioned by Taib Mahmud and run out of London to anonymously defame Radio Free Sarawak and Sarawak Rerport before the 2011 elections…..
Ignoring the problem of Taib is only going to make things worse at the next Sarawak election for the powers that be…….
Anwar admits that his dear wish would be to be able to test his innocence through a reformed Malaysian legal system, as he speaks out at a London legal forum on Malaysia’s plans for penal reform……
Although Britain largely failed to call out corruption by Najib, Anwar has asked this important ally to at least offer the new government support in strengthening Malaysia’s democratic progress…..
EXCLUSIVE – Once again it seems Sarawak school children were failed by broken promises from politicians seeking to line their own pockets….
This is the moment to rid the police force of senior personnel, who have failed to uphold the highest standards or acted above the law they are tasked to enforce on others…….
Abang Jo and his friends want to join the winning team, straight after they lost the match. This is not because they have changed policies, but because they fear upcoming state elections. Why should the Harapan parties hand them seats and deprive Sarawakians of a democratic choice?…..
A ruling by a high court judge today has finally unlocked the Altantuya case. It sets deadly wheels in motion for those accused of covering up the truth for over a decade thanks to abuse of power……
Malaysia needs to think differently about development issues, like the proposed Langkawi project, now we are in the 21st century……..
Millons were being paid in cash into Rosmah’s KL bank accounts, which Sarawak Report has been informed accumulated over two billion ringgit……
The Chief Minister and ruling parties need to get off the fence and decide how they are going to fit in to the new political landscape, but he can’t even decide whether to lift the ban on a visit by Sarawak Report….
UMNO’s ex-leader, the Governor of Sarawak and a swathe of hangers on simply don’t seem to have grasped the magnitude of what has happened in Malaysia and what it will mean for them…..
Malaysians can expect many more months of further revelations and further detail around these matters. Unblocked tonight for the first time in over two years Sarawak Report will join Malaysia’s burgeoning free media in covering some of them….
Malaysians now have the privilege of watching a great political work in progress and should continue not to shy from raising their public voices if they fear a stray from purpose…..
There await plenty more episodes to watch around the demise of UMNO’s power couple. A thousand cover-ups to be unravelled and billions of dollars to be unearthed – handbags, diamonds, will all come tumbling out. But, the danger is now over – Najib is gone…..
It is Sarawak’s voters who deserve any rewards going and not the grubby old kleptocrat of Kuching…..
Reform begins tonight and the future for a newly reunified, Malaysia, now back under the cardinal principle of governance by the rule of law, looks extremely bright…..
Najib has a plan. He seeks to delay; argue the toss; play for time; put his stolen money about and reverse the result of GE14!……..
Najib’s filthy habit of offering bribes from the election podium has become one of his signature traits. However, this desperate eve of election offer to ‘hand back taxes’ merits world record status in terms of utter shamelessness – an attempt to corrupt a nation’s youth……
ELECTION SCANDAL – On the eve of GE14, leaked ‘Merdeka Papers’ from the scandal ridden Cambridge Analytica parent company SCL indicate once again that Najib has LIED. He DID engage with the covert UK communications outfit, working with a former officer from his own ‘Performance Unit’ as the local front man……..
The ruling party has battoned down the hatches as if waiting for a storm. They are threatening dreadful consequences if they lose and advising Malaysians they are better off with continuing cover-ups about the country’s finances. But, their fear is only for themselves…..
When it comes to corruption, Sabah’s Musa Aman is the local version of Najib. Exposes by Sarawak Report throughout 2012 are now the subject of a prosecution in Switzerland against UBS Bank for laundering Musa’s stolen money. So, it is hardly surprising that Sabah folk have flocked to Warisan……..
Once again, Deepak has called Sarawak Report to explain the caretaker PM is blackmailing him over taxes that are owed by his own wife into keeping silent about the cover-ups over the murder of Altantuya……
Plan Z represents the last ditch resort available to Najib, which is to secretly stuff ballot boxes with fake votes. However, he has already shown himself up, by so publicly rigging the election in advance …..
Swiss confirm they are pursuing criminal charges against the two PetroSaudi officials involved in 1MDB. Charges include criminal mismanagement, bribery of foreign public officials, aggravated money laundering, and document forgery….
Claims apparently being promulgated by PAS alleging that there were 5 applications defeated and even the astounding allegation that Hadi has ‘won the case’ are false…..
Sarawak Report has been passed secret documents, including a 209 page due diligence report prepared by the global accountancy group KPMG, which warned Felda Global Ventures (FGV) of numerous risks involved in the over-priced purchase ……
The mystery thickens as a Spanish architect firm confirms to Sarawak Report that it was approached last year take part in a proposed multi-billion ringgit ‘Integrated Medical Cities’ project, allegedly sponsored by ‘the Malaysian Government’…..
The Election Commission’s list of ‘Foreign Observers’ is a sham. Is anyone surprised? ……..
What Najib now fears is to see these two men staring down at him from posters across Malaysia. The signs of panic are everywhere now in BN……
Election Commission’s Election Observer’s list includes three of the world’s most authoritarian regimes; two countries described as ‘Hybrid’ (part-authoritarian) by The Economist Democracy Index and two ‘flawed democracies’ under the same index….
Why the ‘deadly ghost of Altantuya’ yet again hovers over Malaysia’s political scene….
There remains just one rare, ultimate court that might, just, possibly still be in a position to sort out the law-breakers who have put themselves in charge of Malaysia. It sits on May 9th…..
There is a simple way to stop the slander. Name the individual who walked in with RM2.5 million in cash and deposited it in your bank account or give the money back…..
We continue to follow the political situation in Malaysia closely. During my visit to Kuala Lumpur last week, I heard about the recent changes to constituency boundaries and the passing of the Anti-Fake News Bill. I recognise that there are concerns related to both issues……
Evidence published by Sarawak Report that BN’s GE13 campaign was funded by 1MDB sourced accounts has not been contested. So, where will the billions come from this time?…..
Sighs of relief from British officials, already embarrassed by parliamentary questions over Najib’s plans to Chair CHOGM 2020. But, more shame for Malaysia, thanks to their kleptocrat PM…….
Why Najib’s extraordinary attempts to remove all chances from the opposition could start to backfire badly…..
Trump’s campaign chief turned to FBC Media in 2011, shortly after Najib paid the company millions to perform similar ‘Black Ops”…..
“Tok Guru Haji Hadi took UMNO’s money, I took UMNO’s money, everyone took UMNO’s money”. The recording, allegedly of Nik Abduh’s explosive admissions, has now been submitted into the British libel case brought against this website by PAS President Hadi Awang….
Opposition campaigners, long accustomed to failure, should take heart. Najib clearly fears they could win this election, since through his Fake News nonsense he is threatening to arrest all of them first …..
Najib’s shameless bulldozing through of a blatant last minute gerrymander, just to save his skin, days before the election may easily back-fire amongst Malay voters…..
With his ‘Fake News’ legislation Najib has started his country along a road no one ought to want to travel, where truth will become lies and lies the truth……
Given CWEIC’s high profile links to the Commonwealth Secretariat and quasi official status full disclosure on all potentially related or conflicting interests of the members of this private company is deemed appropriate…..
The controversial UK campaign company was behind a covert contract designed to influence unwitting voters into supporting BN using secret behavioural scientific methods that claimed to “innoculate” target communities against key ideas promoted by the opposition, such as a higher petroleum royalty for the state……
As the scandal builds over cowboy election consultancy Cambridge Analytica (SCL) the information is seeping out about the dody company’s role supporting BN in Malaysia. Watch their dirty tactics admitted by their chief, the ex-Etonian CEO Alexander Nix…..
We can reveal that British-based SCL/Cambridge Analytica, described as a “Propaganda Machine” by former staffers, forged secret multi-million dollar contracts to assist BN, raising concerns over the role planned for its ‘deep data’ disinformation tactics in the looming election….
Xavier Justo has kept silent for months to enable investigations. Now it can be revealed that his criminal complaint against PetroSaudi Directors Tarek Obaid and Patrick Mahony and also retired UK policeman Paul Finnigan has been taken up by the Swiss authorities…..
Countries like the UK ought not turn a blind eye to criminals and kleptocrats like Taib, because where they invest their money they bring their practices with them….
Hussein Hamidi is welcome to take credit as the source for the story of the decade in Malaysia. We just made him publish it!……
The Revenge of Goldman Sachs Threatens To Destablilise Turnbull Government In Australia Over 1MDB, Just Days Before Najib’s Visit!……………
Jho Low deserves a just and painful punishment, but he ought not to be the scapegoat for 1MDB. His boss, who is Malaysia’s corrupt leader, and all the bankers who were ready to do business with him, need to be held to account as well……
If you are not prepared to stick your neck out properly, quit moaning that you have received the consequences of being a whistleblower!
If Malaysians vote to retain such leadership (or are rigged into appearing to do so) then not a single one of their possessions will remain safe from the criminals in charge…..
As EPF is called out for misleading statements over its dealing with the Australian company Ladylaw Securities, the smoking gun emails concerning a RM10.64 bond assignment to Limage Holdings need to be confirmed or denied…..
Broidy & Broidy – The Wife Was Jho Low’s Lawyer, Whilst The Husband Set Up An ‘Intelligence Gathering’ Deal With Najib – in return for getting him off the hook over 1MDB!….
As EPF tries to put a lid on this matter by calling it fake news, the facts are proving their own claims to be truth challenged……
Following Evidence that Luxembourg’s Limage Holdings, Run By Fraudster Gyorgy Matrai was handed RM10 Billion by EPF, We Now Expose How A Second Company Set Up By A Foreign Fraudster Was Supported By Najib To Target Billion Dollar Investments From EPF, FELDA, FELCRA and GLCs. ……
RM47 billion ‘Integrated Medical Cities’ project was touted as a joint collaboration between EPF and the Ministry of Health, but EPF now claims it was all a hoax, leaving unanswered questions surrounding numerous contacts and correspondences reviewed by Sarawak Report….
Two Convicted Foreign Fraudsters Were At The Centre Of A New Multi-Billion Dollar Election Heist For GE14! EPF, FELDA, FELCRA Were All Targeted To Raise Slush Funds For Najib’s BN War-Chest……
Nor Omar needs to provide detailed documentation, immediately, to show exactly where those fat bundles of cash he was shown clutching in his hands really came from…….
The question that everyone is asking is has Najib even been raiding the Central Bank?…….
Over the past days the ruling party have done all they can to lock up, shut up and now shut down the political opposition parties. What are they so worried about?….
Only the people of Malaysia can now take the decision and make the move to intervene and rescue the brave warriors like Anwar, Rafizi, Tain Chua and others who have been willing to sacrifice their freedom to stand up for the public interest and what is right…..
Najib Plans To Fight GE14 With A Megaphone To Himself And A Ban On The Rest of the Country Opening Their Mouths ……
New ‘Sarawak Natives’ – Ragad and her kids are now fully equipped to conduct ‘Bumi Business’ in the state…[ APOLOGIES FOR RECENT PROBLEMS WITH THE SITE – WE ARE NOW BACK AND RUNNING]
Venezuela adds to the list of countries now prosecuting criminal charges against individuals linked to 1MDB’s missing billions……
” The AFP has significant intelligence implicating Malaysian Prime Minister Razak in corruption connected to an unrelated corruption probe that is subject to a Victorian court suppression order…..”
Najib’s expensive election strategists will have told him he needs to suppress the youth vote if he wants to win and the best way to do that is to start persuading them it’s ‘cool to stay at home’. Don’t be taken in……
SR reads between the lines… sort of …. of two of today’s big political speeches ……
The joy is that the vote buying is illegal, so voters are perfectly entitled to consider the envelopes of cash as a gift and accept them as such, whilst voting for the massive cash injection into the state promised by Pakatan Harapan….
Battersea Power Station has been sold by a Malaysian Government-controlled consortium to the Malaysian Government-controlled funds PNB and EPF for a RECORD COST of RM8.7 billion (£1.6bn)…….
The world class theft of 1MDB has now featured in a major BBC TV documentary aired in London last night…..
Why Malaysians need to rally to support Malaysiakini, faced with an outrageous fine and a blatant bid to shut it down in advance of Najib’s crooked election campaign……
Ought not the anti-corruption investigators looking into FELDA be raising their eyes higher than Mr Isa Samad?……