BN Style ‘Wealth Weddings’ Ought Surely To Be Going Out Of Fashion?
Weddings, whether modest family affairs or grand ‘look at me” displays of wealth, all hold the same value in the eyes of God and the state, surely?…….
Weddings, whether modest family affairs or grand ‘look at me” displays of wealth, all hold the same value in the eyes of God and the state, surely?…….
When is a full commission of inquiry going to be launched to conduct a thorough review into all contracts and concessions handed out in Sarawak by the corrupted Taib regime?…..
If Najib was tricked then why did he deny it for so long after the truth came out?…….
No longer “Malaysian Official One” – Najib is named over ten times by the US Securities Commission for receiving bribes from Goldman Sachs officials, paid out of money stolen from the bonds riased for 1MDB…..
Najib is putting pressure on AmBank to collude in his fantastic stories. He knows he has a pressure point, in that they waived fundamental AMLA obligations to assist grand kleptocracy by their most powerful ‘VVIP’ customer in KL……
Najib is likely to find himself a defendant in yet another trial following this stunning statement by his former bodyguard. It is the sort of trial you don’t get bail for……
The Lugano office of Swiss AG at first issued an ‘order not to prosecute’ over 1MDB in July 2015, AFTER the evidence of Najib’s bank accounts hit world headlines. The order cited there was no evidence of money missing from the fund….
Readers have turned to Sarawak Report to flag up an urgent message for their own MP!……..
If Abang Jo wants to earn his place in the eternal history of his nation, reforesting Sarawak is the easy way to do it, whilst Taib Mahmud will forever rot in infamy in his golden mausoleum…..
It’s not about party positions and patronage it is about policies for the people and public service….
“The injunction will bring the defendants’ vexatious conduct to an end……”
The federal government has banned two Zurich banking professionals because they did not report dirty money. The episode provides a rare insight into a huge money laundering operation…
Sarawak ‘Legal Advisor’ JC Fong has sounded off with more libel threats, but once again he has met his match in Violet Yong…..
His lawyers are out reminding today that Najib can change his mind and refuse to give evidence after all. You bet they are!….
Perhaps Henley & Partners might like to refine its denial or state if the latest documents published by Politis are ‘fake news’?……
String of self-contradictions by Goldman Sachs have left its top dogs in a tight spot as they face legal action ….
“Blankfein met privately with Low at least three times before, during, and after the bond deals; Leissner explicitly informed Goldman’s Head of Global Compliance that Low was a key intermediary for 1MDB and a secret fifth deal. Explosive new case puts top bankers at Goldman in the frame……
Economics Minister Azmin Ali has been sued for non-payment of a staggering RM308,000 family travel bill raised in just six months, including his controversial return trip to Sandakan in May where a party aide alleged misconduct ……..
The man in charge of the Bank of Cyprus at the time that it accepted nearly €6 million from Jho Low was its Vice Chairman Wilbur Ross, now the US Commerce Secretary……
Days after Sarawak Report exposed Jho Low’s first theft of $700 million from 1MDB, the businessman set about covertly obtaining yet another passport and bolt-hole in Cyprus, according to new reports……
Xavier Justo deserves justice and the people of Malaysia deserve their stolen money back from 1MDB. The Swiss ought to stop providing safe haven for the PetroSaudi collaborators and start moving on this case….
As Najib continues to change his story in the KL courtroom, Jho Low has surrendered up stolen assets to the US Government…..
Salleh Said Keruak certainy knows where plenty of UMNO bodies are buried and for that perhaps PKR should indeed welcome him into their fold!…….
Hadi had till the start of the month to declare his assets, after which he became not a law maker but a law breaker …….
Shareholder revolution at CMSB that pre-dated the removal of Taib son-in-law from top job…..
Sarawak timber giant Rimbunan Hijau has emerged as New Zealand’s second largest landowner, despite decades of failing to make a profit out of logging South East Asia’s tropical rainforests……
The corruption allegations against their former leaders are not the only thing these two South East Asian democracies have in common – both have been ravaged by Sibu loggers, described as “Robber Barons” by the Australian judge heading a Commission of Inquiry into their practices in PNG …..
“The problem is the Malaysian companies have not declared a profit in this country and year after year they continue to operate”: NGO’s call for a “Full Audit” of the Sarawak (‘Malaysian’) companies’ logging record in Papua New Guinea…….
The briefest glance at the title provided to this Taib crony company in shows that the actions they commenced shortly after receiving it flagrantly abused the provisions in illegal ways….
Goldman Sachs is facing a major indictment in the United States and criminal charges against 17 personnel issued by Malaysia for actions that are little different to those AmBank are now exposed over, despite the ‘oversight’ of these senior ANZ staff……
Taib Mahmud’s explanations for his family wealth have been vague and conflicting. The story keeps changing amidst a whole lot of nonsense and self-contradictions. It is time to investigate……
Land titles in the name of Abdul Taib Mahmud have been re-gazetted on land that Sarawak Report has been informed is ripe for development and worth at least RM100 million near Sibu……
Malaysia’s Palm Oil Industry should stop villifying critics and concerned customers and clean up its act over workers’ rights and child labour violations as well as the eco-catastrophe caused by rampant greed …..
Sarawak’s GPS are insisting that giving the state government the right to appoint headmen is a sign of autonomy. In fact it is a sign of a local tin pot dictatorship because communities should appoint their OWN headmen……
A top paediatric doctor has warned face-masks are useless against the toxic carcinogens Borneo’s children are being forced to breath as industry folk talk lightly of ‘seasonal haze’…….
Big business is behind burning Borneo and governments should stick up for the interests of ordinary people…..
Sarawak’s mega-timber and plantation companies have spread their tentacles and their tactics to wherever they can find remaining trees to log and weak governments to undermine …..
Malaysian and International anti-corruption investigators must tackle the Goldman Sachs (and other) bonds raised in Sarawak as well as the scandal of 1MDB….
The leading lights of PBB keep admitting from their very own mouths the truth about their self-created finacial crisis in Sarawak and how they are relying on fantasy solutions to bail them out…….
The boss of logging conglomerate Shin Yang, Ling Chiong Ho, lives in the most ostentatious house in Miri, Sarawak. However, his company stands accused of denying basic workers’ rights…
For the first time in its history Malaysia has a Federal Government that is prepared to stand up for the constitutional native land rights of indigenous peoples against greedy state politicians and private companies…..
Taib’s former Political Secretary Karim Hamza has finally admitted to the failings of the state’s ill-conceived dam building programme, which has brought misery but not electricity to numerous communities…..
The previous Sarawak State Attorney General, Datuk Razak Tready, apparently warned the Sarawak State Government to settle a case brought by liquidators against its Land & Survey Department, which is currently being aggressively defended by his predecessor the present State Legal Advisor J C Fong…..
“I wish to point out the glaring omissions in the Sarawak Report, seemingly intended to shield certain parties from being implicated” [J C Fong, Statement July 29th]……
What has oiled the sudden new outbreak of warm relations between once estranged branches of the Rajah Brooke decendants and the family of the so-called ‘White Haired Rajah’, Governor Taib Mahmud?….
Have the ‘Masters of the Universe’ met their match in Tommy Thomas?……
The controversial PR company behind Boris Johnson’s prime ministerial campaign in the UK also set up camp in KL in 2018, but with less success…….
The Sarawak govenrnment’s legendary former State Attorney General and present Legal Advisor stands accused of conspiring to assist a business partner of the then Planning Minister, Awang Tengah to massively defraud – both are key props of Governor Taib Mahmud’s political and business empire…..
Anwar Ibrahim sets out a firm agenda to end deforestation and abuse of native rights as he lays out his philosophy of ‘Habits of the Heart’ on eve of Sarawak weekend visit…..
For as long as the federal government thinks only in terms of West Malaysia the Borneo states will feel betrayed…
The story of Sarawak’s bonds and the role played by Goldman and Deutsche Bank in the murky finances of the state threaten to be every bit as scandalous as 1MDB and the facts are coming out….
The agenda behind Brexit driving Boris Johnson’s key funders and supporters is to increase the flow of cash from the Commonwealth into the UK……
If the MACC wish to start investigating corruption in Sarawak they could do worse than start by examining the Taib adminstration’s hand outs to his son, whom he claimed while chief minister did ‘no business in Sarawak’…..
Scandal is starting to focus more on Abu Dhabi. However, authorities there and in Switzerland are at pains to say investigations of 1MDB related individuals are not related to 1MDB. Meanwhile US investigators have continued to take no public action over the Vegas nightclub empire linked to jailed Aabar/IPIC boss Khadem Al Qubaisi…….
The PAS/UMNO coalition are bidding to exempt themselves from the rule of law and making up doctrine as they go along to justify nonsense excuses. They think they can still game the system to set themselves back above the law, Malaysia ought not let them……
The disgraceful ‘disappearance’ of the life savings of Sarawak’s dispossessed land owners at the hands of Sarawak’s top bigwigs deserves a 360 degree investigation by the MACC…..
The ‘firesale’ destruction of Sarawak’s valuable timber base has destroyed a priceless asset that could have sustained the economy indefinitely, according to expert consultants hired by the State of Sarawak…..
It will be small comfort to the people of Sarawak to learn that it is not only they but communities all over the world who have suffered the rape and degradation of logging thanks to their local timber mafia……
It looks green on the map and it may even look green from the sky. However, for Sarawak to boast it has conserved its forests is a disgraceful and tragic lie….
KTS’s new found concern about ‘illegal logging’ in peatland areas (which their ‘environmentally concerned’ company has been seeking to ‘protect’) has apparently resulted in a police report. Sarawak Report suggests a full MACC investigation is necessary into the logging and oil palm industry in Sarawak and beyond, as soon as possible before the main orchestrator of the corruption dies……
Jamilah Taib Murray has reaped vast rewards from Sarawak timber and the pouring of public money into family companies where she holds shares. Over in Canada’s wealthy neighbourhoods she is known as the charity queen, if not back home……
The words of the Murum lumber boss that “it was always 100% about the timber” has applied to all of Sarawak’s mega-dam projects, starting with Bakun……
The main purpose of Murum Dam was to extract billions of dollars worth of virgin timber says a former insider angry at being strong-armed out of contracts by companies closer to Taib……
The new boss of the MACC certainly has plenty piled on her plate, with pending investigations into entities that have even been accusing themselves of corruption, like PAS. However, the East Malaysian cesspit of Sarawak can no longer be ignored. THE PEOPLE WANT THEIR BILLIONS BACK ….
This Pastor for years championed protests and police reports against the Mulu headmen and companies logging community lands. So, how did he suddenly become the poster boy for the timber barons citing ‘foreign interference’?…….
Climate change could kill key crops in Malaysia, says its top research centre in Selangor. However, there is still time to implement solutions to prevent a food crisis……
Australian news organisations are expressing astonishment at the high price paid (out of taxpayers’ money) for a cattle ranch by Sarawak’s Economic Development Council. Do jaded Malaysians spot a familiar pattern?….
How a group of Malaysians got to work to prove how the UK Brexit Party’s PayPal donation platform is open to abuse via anonymous and impermissable payments from foreign nationals………
Certification means nothing until it is backed by law enforcement, accountability and good practice – top down and not bottom up…….
Former PRS members are ‘spilling the beans’ about the alleged misuse of money handed out in the name of ruling party ‘rural development grants’ to promote political propaganda instead……
The pattern of attempting to buy influence in high places by those under scrutiny over 1MDB has extended to Switzerland, according to news reports this weekend……
More on the web of influence buying by Malaysia’s former leaders in the United States using 1MDB stolen cash…….
There is competition in Sarawak as to which egregious kleptocratic scandal rates worst. However the loss of the money given as compensation to Native Customary Landowners after the forced removal of their lands rates very high on the list….
The questions are mounting over Abu Bekir’s deals over Radiant Lagoon and other large tracts of Sarawak’s landbank, which were handed to his company Titanium Management by his own Dad….
Records show how the Taib family deliberately concealed the genuine ownership of the plantation company Radiant Lagoon, whilst Taib himself presided over the granting of generous licences……
The global scandal sparked by the Mulu Park clearances in Sarawak represents just one example of how deforestation is driven by oil palm corruption and timber corruption and these outrages must be brought to a halt if Malaysia is to convince the world to buy its palm oil…….
Interesting date lines have started to emerge as AmBank officials detail the history of the 1MDB and SRC accounts managed on the former prime minister’s behalf by people he says set out to dupe him over the origin of the money……
The EU are responding to an unprecedented global mega-crisis of mankind’s making. Malaysia must stop taking it personally and seek best options…..
Some 15,000 residents at the forced settlement of Sungai Asap continue to live unprotected from fire, owing to half-finished fire hydrants that still don’t work, say those who attempted to put out the devastating blaze at Uma Bawang…
Land-grabbing and how the industry is skewed to favour big players is what troubles the minds of oil palm smallholders, who are used time and again to rebut criticism of the industry and major deforestors in Borneo…
Endangered species are for sale on our streets and in our shops. It is the buyers who are most responsible and they deserve equal punishment…..
Minister Theresa Kok redefines Malaysia’s stance with exciting proposals to restore the country’s status as the custodian of the oldest and most significant rainforest on the planet….
Kuching’s latest poor taste project has raised just as many corruption questions as the rest of Taib’s tacky trophy buildings now strewn across the once famously pretty capital of Sarawak…….
“I would consider them, among many, to be my friends…. it’s the MP’s responsibility to advocate on behalf of their citizens” – MP Andrew Leslie, who weighed in to stop BMF’s application via the OECD to open due scrutiny of Taib’s family wealth in Ottawa…….
It may be taking time, but bit by bit the glaring corruptions of Najib Razak’s government of patronage are being dismantled. Vested interests are fighting back every step of the way….
China’s tainted CCCC, which was up to its neck in Najib’s attempted fraudulent bail out of 1MDB through the artificially bloated East Coast Rail Project, has linked up with the Taib family instead…….
Whilst thousands of ordinary trusting shareholders lost their savings, it seems that Najib’s cronies who came to ‘rescue’ Maika in the guise of government backed “trustees” did very well indeed…….
Time for the Chief Justice to get to the bottom of and crack down on an outbreak of mysterious accidents and illnesses amongst lawyers and the judiciary, which are threatening to bring major trials concerning matters of the utmost national importance to a halt……
It’s time to open the books on Sarawak’s biggest financial asset, the Taib family fortune……
Questions for Torstein – are you working on this ‘conservation project to promote high value timber’ for free?; Since when did you become a reforestation expert? Was your contract open to tender?…..
“It would be a very serious blow to me personally as well as my ability to rid my character of the stain of these allegations if I was not permitted to bring my claim before the English Court”. ……..
Hadi disowned articles written by his key witness RPK in a sworn statement to the London High Court, calling them “deplorable” and something he wished to “condemn”. He also said they were “inaccurate”………
Every key claim that Hadi swore to in his statement to the UK court last year has now been undermined by his subsequent actions and admissions as, just as Sarawak Report had predicted, he has now formally united with Najib and UMNO……
What were the “agreed confidential terms of settlement” refered to in the UK High Court Order, in order to discontinue Hadi’s case, if not that payment of RM1.4 million to Sarawak Report?……
It is time for a full inquiry into the handing out of native lands and resources to politically connected cronies and for justice to be given to Native Customary Landowners, who have been shockingly plundered and abused in a timber and plantation version of the gold rush……
Sarawak Report does not believe in misleading people and considers itself released from confidentiality about its settlement with PAS, owing to the party’s own breech of the terms and its attempts to mislead Malaysians by saying our legal bills were not paid as part of the agreement…………
Sarawak Report has viewed an explosive set of documents detailing how millions in cash payments and investments were allegedly made from the shareholder fund in favour of its CEO, who is also the General Secretary of MIC…….
Once again local people seeking to benefit from their own lands have found themselves ultimately combatted by brute force, mediated by ‘police’ hired by the plantation company in question……
Hadi says the reason for the sudden friendship between PAS and UMNO is new found ‘Muslim unity’, but given that UMNO paid for so many of PAS’s deposits for the record number of seats it contested at the last election is that just another ‘sharia compliant’ twisting of the truth?……
Sarawak Report can exclusively reveal that the original owner of the company now in the spotlight over the latest Sarawak land protests in Mulu was none other than Taib’s own son, who sold it to one of his Dad’s favourite cronies…….
Hadi submitted his own analysis of the meaning of the Nik Abduh recording to the London court, providing his explanation as to why it did not mean PAS accepted UMNO cash. Now he says he never heard the audio!….
PAS leaders’ new moral stance is that it is OK to lie if it suits the party politically to do so. So, what other lies have they been telling, why are they so ready to condemn others for such sins and why has noone yet resigned?…….
As PAS leaders confess to the dishonesty of their case against Sarawak Report It has become increasingly clear to Malaysians why Hadi preferred to settle rather than face the music in a London court…..
A detailed pictorial account of Malaysia’s top cops’ extended weekend course in Istanbul to study online gambling has been posted online by a top Malaysian tour operator…….
If Najib really want to ‘prove his innocence’ then he should stop running away from the dock and answer the rock solid evidence the prosecution holds against him…..
Malaysia’s top police brass have all de-camped for a lengthy weekend trip to Istanbul. Sarawak Report seeks reasons behind the highly unusual below radar mission…..
MACC Investigators Have Numerous Discrepancies To Disentangle Over PAS….
We reveal the links between pro-Najib blogger RPK and the disinformation campaign surrounding the PAS case against Sarawak Report….
The PAS president and his team threatened their own credibility thanks to conflicting accounts, which spelt trouble in the witness box ……
Thanks to the support of many Malaysians who donated towards legal costs Sarawak Report has withstood PAS President Abdul Hadi Awang’s attempt to remove an article and discredit a 2016 report about his party…..
The Malaysian Oil Palm lobby and its spokespeople have a simple approach towards defending their industry, which is to deny there is a single concern about the business and to vociferously villify and attack anyone who suggests otherwise. Oil palm has generated stacks of cash, so there has been plenty to pay legions of PR
As far as Malaysia is concerned, it just wants its 1MDB money back and the less arguments and excuses from banks, big businesses and billionaires the better……
One of the major banks most implicated in 1MDB is ANZ, yet its role remains unscrutinised by Australia’s regulatory authorities…..
Najib and Goldman reckoned without Malaysian unity against corruption and now both the ex-PM and the entire bank, which is now being criminally prosecuted by the new Malaysian Attorney General and sued by Malaysia for US$7.5 billion in lost funds, should face the justice they deserve……
Emirati sovereign wealth fund manager ‘KAQ’ was fired after SR revealed his nightclubbing antics. Now the same Abu Dhabi fund that sacked him has bought out the entire Vegas focused nightclub and casino venture that he founded….