Hollywood and its producers should think carefully before making a film about George Washington from ill-defined financial resources obtained by the son of Malaysia’s now officially designated corrupt dictator….

The now ‘lame duck’ President should tell this dead duck Prime Minister to put his country first….

Money paid by 1MDB to the US company DuSable Capital Management, tasked with lobbying US Government support for its Kedah solar panel project, found its way into the the 2013/4 election campaigns of at least 7 Democrat candidates, according to official filings…..

The recent PR campaign against Sarawak Report has accused this writer of being a “liar” and a “forger”. yet our research has shown that these descriptions perfectly fit these anonymous accusers instead….

The company which 1MDB engaged to allegedly buy up its so-called investment in PetroSaudi back in 2012 is now under a separate investigation by the Australian authorities. In the absence of a proper open enquiry in Malaysia itself into the shenanigans surrounding this dodgy deal it has provided some very useful information…

With the US President Barak Obama due to make a supposedly image-boosting visit to Malaysia next month, yet another embarrassing denial has come out from the Prime Minister over 1MDB…..

Sarawak Report has learnt that litigation experts are eying a potential liability case against the bankers involved with 1MDB…..

IMDB’s management was only authorised to “proceed with negotiations” for what was still described merely as a “proposed venture” by their Board of Directors, at a meeting just two days before the joint venture deal with PetroSaudi was actually signed!

Sarawak Report has obtained yet more sensational documents, which lay bare even futher the deceit of 1MDB’s management over the PetroSaudi deal…

We publish more details of PetroSaudi’s fraudulent deal with 1MDB and how it contravened conditions set by Bank Negara….

As Bank Negara makes its stand Sarawak Report has obtained minutes of a 1MDB board meeting, which prove that CEO Arul Kanda’s claim about ‘cash in the bank’ at BSI Bank Singapore was not an unfortunate ‘miscommunication’, but part of a deliberate strategy of misinformation….

Sarawak Report can exclusively reveal the alleged identity of ‘His Highness’ the ‘royal donor’, which was given to AmBank as the source of several payments, including the US$681 million received into Najib’s account just before the last election…..

While the man responsible for 1MDB’s investment decisions hangs out in New York, DAP’s Tony Pua has queried the emergence of some astonishing figures….

The most expensive mansion in Beverley Hills (reputedly) glitters with glass atop a cascading hillside of manicured terraced lawns – its projected price tag is around US$45 million plus…..

A court battle is throwing further light on the activities of the ex-managers of Aabar, whose connections with 1MDB and the Malaysian businessman Jho Low have been repeatedly queried ….

Following media reports in the United States, Sarawak Report can confirm that this news site handed over extensive data about 1MDB to a joint US investigation team back in March….

We can reveal that Tanore Finance Corporation BVI was incorporated by Falcon Bank itself through a Zurich based corporate services company named Trident Corporate Services on 19th October 2012. It casts further doubt on an already unbelievable story of the Prime Minister about a third party donor…

Top level discussions are currently under way in Abu Dhabi over what to do about the embarrassing legacy of the former Chief Executive of the sovereign wealth fund IPIC, who enmeshed the emirate in the scandal of 1MDB….

A shocking new line of enquiry has emerged, following the freezing of 1MDB related accounts by the Swiss authorities last week, Sarawak Report has learned…..

As part of the civil case, which was launched on 12th August, Anwar’s lawyers have now made extensive demands in the so-called discovery process, which concerns their basic legal right to information relevant to the case…..

Today both Najib Razak and Sarawak’s Former Chief Minister and current Governor Taib Mahmud were under scrutiny during one of the NGO’s liveliest ever conferences, conducted against the backdrop of the 1MDB scandal…..

Citing Malaysia as facing a “corruption crisis”, Ugaz focused on the unanswered questions surrounding the $700 million “donation” which recently landed in the private bank account of Najib Razak….

In a personally signed letter, headed ‘Subject Clare Rewcastle Brown’, the Secretary General confirmed he was in receipt of a request by Malaysia, which was reviewed on 9th August in line with their standard operating procedure and that the Red Notice had been refused….

Either 1MDB has a “binding agreement” with IPIC or the two remain “engaged in discussions” – how can it be both?…..

A second head has rolled at the very top of Abu Dhabi’s Aabar sovereign wealth fund, giving yet another strong signal that there are major concerns in the Gulf state over being drawn into Malaysia’s escalating financial and political scandals. ..

Sarawak Report has now reliably established that the global financier, self-styled philanthropist and international party lover, Malaysia’s Taek Jho Low, has relocated to Taiwan…..

Prime Minister Najib Razak splashed over US$1 million on his credit cards during the month of August in the year following the election, according to information received by Sarawak Report….

US$650 million was transferred from the Prime Minister’s AmPrivate Bank account in Kuala Lumpur back to Tanore Finance Corporation in Singapore on the day the AmPrivate Bank account was closed, 30/08/2013…

Time to reveal the full details of the alleged Najib ‘donor’. At the moment all arrows are pointing to the US$1.42 billion that seeped out of the US$3 billion “seed money” raised for the 1MDB Aabar ‘strategic partnership’ that never happened ….

Malaysians are at the very least entitled to an assurance that this whopping ‘gift/payment’ described by the MACC statement as being from ‘undisclosed donors from the Middle East’ was not connected in any way to Abu Dhabi’s Aabar fund and its sacked former Chairman, Khadem al Qubaisi….

If the documents publicised by Sarawak Report were false or ‘doctored’, why are these desperadoes ordering the ransacking of public offices and the arrest and interrogation of all the public investigators who have been looking into 1MDB, on the grounds of “criminal leakages”?

Having, sacked, replaced and arrested numerous of his own colleagues, citizens and public servants over the past few days the Prime Minister of Malaysia has elevated one foreign female blogger to the status of prime threat to the nation.

How can this possibly be?

The British Prime Minister has made the issue of rooting out global corruption one of his key platforms as a world leader. He is absolutely right to do so, which is why he should not carry on to visit Malaysia on this occasion….

It has emerged that the brash Penang businessman, Jho Low, had access to the highest level at 1MDB and he called the shots by getting the PM on his handphone…..

It is a well known dictum that people most often accuse others of what they are guilty of themselves…..

The fun-loving communications chief in the Prime Minister’s Department, UK national Paul Stadlen, has been spending the past fortnight shredding documents at his offices at the Bangsar Menara building, say insiders…..

After days of speculation, the son of the AmBank founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi has openly confirmed that he believes his father was assassinated because of his open concerns about corruption at the bank he had once managed….

Who ever imagined Malaysia would see the transformation of Dr Mahathir into the ‘Hero of the Resistance’, dragged down from the popular podium this morning on the orders of the Chief of Police?….

If Jho Low had grabbed one of Rosmah’s pink Birkin bags and stuffed it full of her diamonds, before making-off back to Hong Kong, we could be pretty sure Interpol would have been instantly alerted….

Sarawak Report has obtained more shocking emails written by the PM’s crony businessman Jho Low in 2011. The emails detail an insider trading conspiracy, in which Low cites the support of “HE Prime Minister of Malaysia” in a scheme to net USD500 million…

Sarawak Report has gathered further evidence, which reveals how the PM’s publicly funded communications team is continuing to target and defame opponents by sponsoring smear pieces in newspapers, which pose as objective journalism and expert ‘opinion pieces’….

A low key announcement published on Tuesday May 5th made clear that Khadem Al Qubaisi has been relieved of his position as Chairman of the Spanish oil giant CEPSA, as well as all the other subsidiaries of the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), of which he had been the Chief Executive…

Investigators into the Malaysian development fund 1MDB’s 2009 joint venture with the company PetroSaudi International have concluded that the partnership lied to its banks and Bank Negara Malaysia by confirming that the company Good Star Limited was a 100% subsidiary…

Over the past few days it has emerged that Khadem al Qubaisi, the man identified by this blog as Jho Low’s key contact at Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Aabar Investments, has been removed from the majority of his posts….

New documents obtained by Sarawak Report show that in 2011 the company Good Star Limited, which is controlled by the businessman friend of the Finance Minister, Jho Low, received the entirety of a further USD$330 million ‘loan’ that had been authorised by the development fund 1MDB…..

Sarawak Report has new exclusive evidence that over USD$500 million was transferred from Good Star LImited’s account at RBH Coutts in Zurich into an account belonging to the controversial businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) at BSI Bank in Singapore….

Sarawak Report has been passed disturbing evidence, showing that BSI Bank has dismissed documents supplied by 1MDB relating to its Brazen Sky Limited account in Singapore, saying they are false bank statements….

Last week the Finance Minister made a formal response to opposition MP Tony Pua’s persistent questioning about where the RM4 billion borrowed from Malaysia’s pension fund had been invested…

For weeks the mantra of the chairman of 1MDB’s governing Advisory Board (Malaysia’s Prime Minister) has been that the management of the fund has been ‘cleared’, because the accounts were ‘forensically’ audited by international accountancy firms of global standing….

Sarawak Report has uncovered evidence, which indicates the supposedly independent auditors KPMG helped ‘cook the books’ at 1MDB, while auditing the fund’s initial accounts for the period ending March 2010….

There are two very different sides to the prominent Abu Dhabi civil servant Khadem Al-Qubaisi, who chairs the emirate’s Aabar sovereign fund, according to an extensive body of information that has been passed to Sarawak Report. For example, when he appeared in Kuala Lumpur on March 12th 2013, playing the key figure in a much

The Prime Minister’s Office’s key blog of the moment, The Rakyat Post, sought to put all concerns to rest yesterday over 1MDB. It reported that the Prime Minister had “cleared” Jho Low and was able to “explain” to the public that “all decisions and dealings of 1MDB was done by the management and board of

The release of documents by Sarawak Report relating to the joint venture between the development fund 1MDB (One Malaysia Development Berhad) and the firm PetroSaudi has created new insights into matters that have long been left woefully under-explained by the official accounts, say critics. Among those who have protested at the lack of transparency over

Documents available to Sarawak Report highlight the key role played by a well-known contact of the tycoon Jho Low, called Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil, during the company PetroSaudi International’s negotiations to raise further billions from 1MDB during 2010…

COPYRIGHT CLAIM: Sarawak Report is currently disputing a copyright claim issued by a non-existent company in the US, which is demanding that pictures of Jho Low cavorting at Cristal champagne drenched parties in public places in the South of France and United States be removed from public view.  These pictures have been available and widely circulated on

The documents in our possession show how Jho Low and his team relied on a wide range of key professional advisors, mainly from the UK and the US, to pull off his deal with 1MDB. These experts either knowingly engaged in his plan to make the PetroSaudi joint venture a “front” for further deals, or

Crucial to Jho Low’s life as a wheeler dealer financier has been his team of trusted insiders. Together, this band of close associates have circled the globe, enjoying a life of luxury and excess unimaginable to the bulk of ordinary Malaysians. Yet, it is those ordinary folk who are effectively funding it all, thanks to

The Malaysian billionaire is the ultimate exponent of mixing business with pleasure. He combines his low profile business activities, which he insists are not related in any way to Malaysian public investments,  with a high profile social life that has generated gossip columns from Las Vegas to St Tropez. Indeed the display of wealth is

After Jho Low and his partners from PetroSaudi had completed the 1MDB deal, the management of public perceptions about what had happened clearly became crucial. The joint venture buccaneers can soon be seen to have started to wield the most extraordinary influence over the presentation of 1MDB and then even the management of Malaysia/Saudi relations,

ARTICLE IN THE SUNDAY TIMES IN THE summer of 2009, a Malaysian nicknamed “the Whale” appeared on the New York nightclub scene. He would travel with a large entourage in a fleet of Cadillacs and his party would spend tens of thousands of dollars a night in the company of socialites such as Paris Hilton.

Will Riza Aziz be making libel threats against the New York Times today? After all, the New York Times has repeated and corroborated every single point that has been reported in this blog about the PM’s stepson’s unaccountable wealth over the past year and confirms the ties between his Hollywood production company Red Granite and Jho Low…