Question Of Sport – If CFC Has Been Confiscated Why Not Man City?
If the UK government is at last serious about dealing with foreign corrupt practices it should not stop at sanctioning Abramovich or even just Russian oligarchs ……
London Laundromat
Still Being Paid By Jho Low And, If So, How? – Lawyers Keep Mum As Questions Mount
Sarawak Report has challenged Kobre & Kim who handled Jho Low’s PR and surrender of stolen assets to admit whether they still represent the fugitive and what due diligence they do on money laundering as so-called ‘Reputation law firms’ now find themselves in the spotlight for servicing dodgy billionaires…….
Specialists In Meaning Balk At Being Termed ‘Servants Of The Rich’
The UK ‘reputation law firm’ Carter Ruck has come out fighting today claiming it has “has never acted for Russian entities seeking to challenge sanctions” and is “not acting for, and will not be acting for, any entity associated with the Putin regime”. So, what does that actually mean?……
Newcastle ‘Sportswash’ Buy Out Begins To Unravel?
Sarawak Report has been following the ‘laundromat’ trail as kleptocrat and autocrat cash funnels through the off-shore system and into service economies like Britain, bringing corrupting and anti-democratic influences in its wake……
Wealthy Tory Donor Amersi Says His Proposed Reforms Were Shelved By Party
More scrutiny needed for ‘junketing’ MP ‘friendship groups’ says Tory donor under fire claiming he agrees with Charlotte Leslie that political funding has become an open door to foreign money and influence buying…..
Foreign Financing In UK Politics Sparks Growing Concern
Sarawak Report has been following the global money trail as kleptocrat and autocrat cash funnels through the off-shore system and into advanced ‘concierge’ economies where professionals serve and shield those who have pillaged their own countries. In 2022 we will occasionally shine a light on the so-called ‘London Laundromat’ to warn that corruption is an infectious disease that impacts and destroys governance beyond borders……
Lords Bought: Are Foreign Money Trails Fuelling UK Politics?
It’s not on the scale of Malaysian political corruption, but the UK public are rightly concerned the Conservative Party is on a slippery slope as the ‘Cash For Honours’ row engulfs the government. Based on links to 1MDB Sarawak Report asks how one former party vice-treasurer was ennobled at the tender age of 38 after an apparent donation of just £125,000 and questions whether foreign money flowed behind the scenes?……
Why Newcastle’s ‘Sportswash’ Looks Decidedly Grubby
Football glory has become one of the most sought after forms of reputation laundering by the super-wealthy with image problems. Russian oligarchs, US corporate raiders and now Arab dictators with human rights issues have been crowding to buy up UK clubs as they attempt to re-brand. Sarawak Report’s examination of Malaysian corruption has led it to the Middle East and also to the potentially cancerous extension of such dirty money into the heart of UK decision making….
1MDB’s Legal Firm And Its Secret Dealings With Abu Dhabi
Malaysia’s interests in its multi-billion dollar case against IPIC are being handled by a law firm with a long history of secretly representing the property interests of Abu Dhabi’s Royal Family ……
Tarek’s Treasure Trove Tagged In London
Who is left surprised to learn that over US$340 million of 1MDB’s misappropriated cash has apparently been found nestling in the client account of a major US law firm and that there is more sitting in one of the UK’s top banks?…..
UNTOUCHABLE? US Legal Firm Still Accepting Money From Known Jho Low Business Associate
After the banks and Jho’s Middle Eastern royal accomplices it is a swathe of western law firms and PR companies who have most profited from Jho Low’s affairs and the thefts from 1MDB. However, whilst the banks are paying a price the law firms appear so far unscathed….
How China & Kuwait Funnelled 1MDB Kickbacks To Pay Jho’s Low’s Top US/UK Law Firms EXCLUSIVE
Sarawak Report has solved the mystery over who was paying Kobre & Kim and Schillings, plus Gibson Dunn & Crutcher tens of millions of Euros for services to Jho Low AFTER he had been exposed as a wanted billion dollar fraudster by the DOJ…..
Taib Hired Disgraced London PR Firm Bell Pottinger To Pose As ‘Concerned Young Sarawakians’
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…..
Fire Sale In London Continues! PNB To Flog Half Billion Pound Properties
PNB is the next major public fund to start selling off its assets abroad. So, what will happen to the money?…..
Revealed! The Low Family’s Luxury London Lairs!
Three hugely expensive buildings, which are sitting empty in the heart of Mayfair, form part of the asset portfolio that the Low family are seeking to prevent US law enforcers from seizing as stolen goods….
Tarek’s Fab Pad In Mayfair – Price Tag £8.25m – Courtesy Of 1MDB! – EXCLUSIVE
On 1st June 2010 a sum of $10 million was transferred from Obaid’s JP Morgan Suisse account A/C 7573800 into the EFG account in London. This was the account into which Jho Low’s Good Star Limited had secretly paid the $85 million dollar “brokerage fee” in October 2009 ….
London Mansion Is Under Riza’s Name – Paid For By 1MDB!
British Ministers may choose to say that 1MDB is Malaysia’s businesses. However, they cannot legally ignore money laundering in Britain’s capital city, once it has been drawn to their attention…
Cameron’s Conservatives Should Show Caution Before They Suck Up To Najib
Relations between the UK and Malaysia should naturally be warm. However, as Prime Minister Najib Razak makes his way towards the UK this week, David Cameron’s welcome party should concentrate on that friendship with the Malaysian people, rather than selfish financial opportunities. After all, Najib represents a discredited minority government, which everyone knows would have
“Stop Defending The Corrupt” – London Lawyers Told To Drop Taib
Mishcon de Reya, the London lawyers who represent Taib and his son-in-law Sean Murray and firms Sakto, Sakti and Ridgeford Properties, have been warned to “stop defending the corrupt” and to ditch their most controversial clients. In a statement issued today the Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) point out: “Mishcon de Reya’s relationship with the Taib
Billions Abroad ! – Questions over Taib’s Contacts with Foreign Property Tycoons
The man pictured in the party-buggy sitting next to the Deputy Chief Minister, Alfred Jabu, is a Greek called Achilleas Kallakis. This was in April 2008 and Kallakis was already a man with a criminal record. Back in 1995 he and a colleague, Alexander Williams, had been convicted in the UK of selling false Hong Kong passports for RM 100 thousand each and also
‘Hide Park’ ! – The Taibs’ London Bolthole
It is undoubtedly one of the smartest addresses in London. Hampshire House is an enormous and gracious period building overlooking the world-famous Hyde Park, just a stone’s throw from Marble Arch and Oxford Street. It contains some of the largest apartments in the capital, including the regular ‘pied a terre’ of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud. The ground
Exclusive – Taibs’ Foreign Property Portfolio
Canadian properties worth in excess of a hundred million dollars Twin glass towers and a swish shopping complex at Preston Square in downtown Ottawa form just part of an enormous foreign property portfolio controlled in Canada by the family of Sarawak Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, according to our exclusive investigations. These buildings alone are worth at least one hundred million dollars and generate a