Late on Wednesday night KL time the Editor of Sarawak Report received a series of peculiar WhatsApp text messages on her personal phone. They purported to be from Bukit Aman Police Station requiring her attendance at the Terengganu Magistrates Court in five days time, Monday 27th April, as the defendant in trial against her. Had her lawyer informed her the police officer asked? …..
It is not often the CEO of a major public owned company acts as a whistleblower, alleging the massaging of accounts to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds (RM1.7bn). Don O’Sullivan had been offered the chance to quietly walk away instead with a very nice settlement comprising 6 months payment of his half
1MDB’s $1.83 billion legal suit against PetroSaudi’s legal advisors White & Case has sparked both regulatory and criminal investigations in the UK. Sarawak Report has reviewed the law suit and the evidence that prompted the MACC accouncement last week that it has recommended criminal charges be brought against ‘several individuals’……
If it is found the SDT have not exceeded their legislated powers and that it is I who have exceeded my rights to freedom of expression and to report in the public interest, then I am resigned to pay the price…..
Online media behemoths suck information and trillions of dollars from the global community, but invest little in accountability for their actions and have been made exempt from the very penalties they help exact on others….
Sarawak Report’s probe into the settlements over Tim Leissner’s crock of stolen assets – as he seeks a pardon to escape his sentence for defrauding 1MDB – has prompted extraordinary revelations about reparations due to Malaysia that appear to have escaped the DOJ’s net…..
As Sarawak Report was unravelling the 1MDB money trails in 2015-16 guilty bankers were taking notice, and some were discussing ‘strategies for dealing’ with the problem together with Jeffrey Epstein….
The story of 1MDB has seemingly evolved from a promising narrative of US enforcement bringing white-collar criminals to rightful justice to a more tawdry tale of bargaining and double standards, where money talks ….
As America asserts its ‘hemispheric hegemony’ and a new world order for 2026, one legal case involving New York’s notoriously cut throat investment bank, Goldman Sachs, is testing whether the principle of ‘might is right’ also extends to powers of jurisdiction…..
Professional enablers who made lucrative earnings out of the 1MDB heist include the major law firm White & Case and Goldman Sachs bank. As Najib is found guilty suspected decision-makers at both these institutions have so far escaped accountability for their breaches of due diligence and trust – or worse, knowing complicity in return for handsome fees?
