The past month is just a warning of the dire fate the country and the new generation face from the lawless greed of Malaysia’s old guard and ruling elites. GE15 must bring a clean sweep on an anti-corruption agenda or these throwbacks will swipe what resources are left and then depart….
Native Rights Campaigner Denis Along faces imminent jail if he cannot find the RM10,000 the courts have punished him for daring to contest the seizure of his community’s lands to build a luxury hotel for the Taib family….
After two bully buy-elections UMNO’s beleaguered Court Cluster are pressing for an early GE15 where they hope to pull off another bully win. Their PN ‘allies’ still have unfinished business however, including their plan to ‘make Malaysia the global cutting edge for 5G technology’ (or at least to spend the budget they set aside) and seeing the same Court Cluster off to jail…..
Malaysians ought not to blame Longhouse folk for the culture of money politics. The federal government has propped up a kleptocratic local dictatorship for decades in return for Sarawak’s oil. It has not lifted a finger against corruption in the state, gross gerrymandering and the violation of election rules by the local thugocracy who think rules simply don’t apply to them…..
Publishers Penguin have seen fit to produce a book written by a Najib apologist who was paid from money stolen from 1MDB. The book threatens critics (named ‘enemies’) to be ‘very afraid’ of a triumphant return of the convicted leader and suggests that the money stolen from SRC was just a small amount. Maybe he forgets the US$170 million that went from SRC into Najib’s dollar account? …..
The Malaysian Government has stated that the Editor of Sarawak Report is a ‘fugitive’ who has “fled abroad to avoid prosecution”. For this they state they are issuing an INTERPOL Red Notice request. Does Malaysia need yet more such National Embarrassment over Najib and 1MDB?….
Today, at the same time as filing yet another appeal, Najib to all purposes admitted to his guilt. His tactics of delay and bogus denial have done nothing but prolong the agony for the country …..
If Sarawakians could look beyond the GPS bullying and the bribes to vote for PKR and the opposition’s ‘Welfare & Healthcare’ manifestoes the remaining resources of their beleaguered state could be channelled into making them comfortable like the people of Brunei, instead of being subjugated by greedy outsiders in their own lands for a few ringgit and some cigarettes ……
Once again kleptocrat outsiders appear to have been caught plundering the resources of Sarawak’s native communities …….
As Najib’s legal guru, Shafee Abdullah, tries a new way to delay the Appeal Court decision on his case, the pair have appeared to hasten a review into the Altantuya murder scandal that has been due for years …..
Australia has a Bribery of Foreign Public Officials Act that prohibits blandishments to foreign decision makers, influencers or their intermediaries for the purpose of commercial advantage. This includes the awarding of sweet contracts to gain licences for business. We ask Lynas’s top legal eagle to reassure us that the company has not fallen foul due to its actions in Malaysia ……
The hasty decision by GPS to ditch the Emergency and hold the election just days before a swathe of new young educated voters will be mandated onto the electoral register will kill people in Sarawak. It is a price GPS are plainly prepared to pay for their own political advantage. What more do we need to know about them?…..
The global reputation of Malaysia’s judiciary is at stake over Najib’s plainly fishy appeal proceedings and the blatant evidence of manipulation thereof ……
There is a major question now as to why it has taken a full 15 months since Najib’s appeal against his devastating conviction in the High Court to be judged by the Court of Appeal. Put politely, it stinks…….
Ex-PM Najib Razak has made just one mistake over the past triumphant month in Malacca. He conceded to the outrage of those who considered his demand for a RM100 million house to be paid for by the state to be shocking and indefensible!…….
He has tried to paint his attempt to grab a RM100 million property as a noble rejection. In fact, it was a humiliating climbdown only after his gambit had been found out days before the crucial Malacca election. So, has UMNO invested in damaged goods by promoting Najib back to their helm? ……
It was a victory, but what the latest judgement from the British High Court has told Malaysia is that far from settling the 1MDB’s $6 billion claim against IPIC the present government and its lawyers are still battling Abu Dhabi over a year after the PN government opted to ‘negotiate’ the case. It also warns that time is now running out for Malaysia owing to the fruitless delays …..
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?……
Malaysia’s current leaders, who are wedded to a convicted criminal and several others facing corruption charges, have created an alternative reality to reassure their followers. The rest of the world is looking with growing amazement and concern at the ‘Truth Bubble’ that has enveloped a supposedly democratic nation ……
Yet another perverse decision by the Agong has been made to ditch the State of Emergency he called earlier, to facilitate a snap election in Sarawak to avoid young voters. This despite rising deaths and before booster jabs can be rolled out. So what do Sarawakian lives matter to Governor Taib and this regime who want to keep hold of power and stolen riches? They just gave everyone their answer……
The convicted former prime minister of Malaysia has taken Big Lie Theory to ludicrous new lows as he seeks to swap prison for the job of UMNO president once more. For his country and it floundering economy it represents a devastating humiliation that should not be permitted by any responsible government…..
A key door has now slammed shut on the tenacious legal strategy on the part of PetroSaudi’s Tarek Obaid to hang on to hundreds of millions stolen from 1MDB. That legal battle has cost a considerable chunk of the stolen money, however Obaid looks unlikely now to see any of it in his own bank accounts as he faces simultaneous criminal charges over his actions …….
If anyone still had doubts as to whether the GPS state government cares less about saving people from Covid than retaining office then the manoeuvring of the past few days will have removed them. Thankfully, the blatant shamelessness of the self-serving heartlessness of this State Government has finally provoked some royal figures to successfully demand an end to attempts to foist a snap election on the battered people of Sarawak …..
The UK claims to protect freedom of speech to enable journalists to do their job in the public interest. It also supports indulgent defamation, privacy and copyright laws. These and the enormous charges of London based law firms have attracted the global rich and powerful to hire UK ‘Reputation Lawyers’ – now elbowing each other for the business in the British courts. Sarawak Report has been a frequent target …..
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….
INTERPOL have responded swiftly to the letter from fourteen civil society organisations requesting information about the Malaysian Arrest Warrant against the editor of Sarawak Report…..
For over two years Sarawak Report has kept silent on the civil action being pressed against its editor by the Sultanah of Terengganu, out of respect for her right to complain and for the due process of the courts. However, given the latest attempts to intimidate and even arrest the author on criminal charges we feel forced to speak out about the abuses in this case…..
The MACC currency checked each note of the $6million they confiscated back in 2018 and then held it under their own custody despite a police report from Hasanah who explained the money was not hers. Now they only have fraudulent forged notes to hand back to the public purse…….
The timber-raiding Yaw family of Samling may have met with frustration over their plans to trash protected forest in Selangor this month, however who is helping the Penan so far to keep their bulldozers out of their Baram Peace Park, designated as a protected area only last year by the Malaysian government and ITTO?…..
Sadly, the window-dressing about ‘reforms’ under the so-called Memorandum of Understanding on Transformation and Political Stability distracts from what this budget deal is really all about ………
James Masing has spotted more of ‘God’s given assets to unlock’, by which he means he has seen a tract of remaining rainforest in Sarawak that his greedy cartel of GPS ministers and Chinese timber cronies have not yet cut down. STOP HIM!…….
Nazir Razak has once again stood up with welcome and truthful rebuttals of his own brother’s shocking narratives. He has described Malaysia as on the brink of collapse thanks to the Three Headed Monster of “increased corruption, hardening communal identity, and Umno’s concentration of power”. He should put his money where his mouth is……..
The sensational reversal of Selangor’s outrageous decision to de-gazette remaining protected forest should give hope to Malaysians that popular opinion can hold sway at a time when power and wealth have been abused to over-turn the last federal election …..
With the architect of Malaysia’s pandemic chaos now placed in charge of staging a recovery and with the world’s best-known kleptocrat placed as an advisor on the country’s financial rescue plans, what are the prospects for the desperate electorate which had voted in a different bunch entirely?…….
Hints have emerged of a key new potential witness having surrendered to the US prosecutors who are still examining 1MDB. The development looks set to transform the evidence available on the case, none of which is likely to assist in the appeal and pleas of innocence put forward by UMNO’s supposedly re-habilitated ‘hero’ the convicted ex-PM Najib Razak…..
Having first signed off the Kuala Langat Forest Reserve to a shell company owned by the Sultan himself the Selangor MB and his government have now allowed the project to be acquired by a notorious Sarawak timber company with a global record of malpractice and abuse. Sarawak’s natives can be the first to warn the people of Selangor what they have coming to them from Samling …..
The scandalous de-gazetting of Selangor’s Kuala Langat forest reserve represents just the latest royal land grab to come to light, although once again Malaysians suffer from a reluctance to point this out owing to the vicious reprisals waged against critics of royal abuses…….
An appalling log-jam has destroyed swathes of the Rajang River basin, caused by timber cleared from the area due to be inundated by the Baleh Dam. However, according to themselves, neither the contractors SEB nor the state bodies and GPS politicians who have issued timber licenses hold the slightest responsibility for the so far undisclosed logging operations that caused the disaster. Instead, they are putting the blame on shifting cultivation by native communities……
In 2018 Malaysia was progressing after a stable, democratically elected and reforming government ousted an entrenched and corrupted regime under UMNO. Now, thanks to dark malpractice, UMNO are back but many times worse as part of PN 2.0 – at least that is what the rest of the world mainly thinks……
Those responsible for this global tragedy are a handful of weak, corrupted politicians working for a timber mafia who are stripping the planet bare. The latest Baleh log-jam is testimony to the scale and shoddiness of their destructive activity – and the danger that puts Sarawak people in ……
It is often said ‘better the devil you know’, which certainly makes sense to the handful of people who are doing very nicely indeed out of the corrupt system that has been stripping Malaysia bare for decades…..
How come Anwar does not have the power to “disrupt the independence of the judiciary” and make UMNO happy, whilst Ismail Sabri can immediately find the way to make UMNO happy now that Mahiaddin with his similar refusals has been removed? …..
How Ismail Sabri must regret he didn’t bother to include Kuching in his bargaining tour of the nation. However the Malay supremacist politician must have considered them not worth the candle as mere inferior allies….
Ismail Sabri is irredeemably tarnished by all the corruption and failings of the previous PN government, which he led and championed to the end. Likewise, the lies and defiance of King and country. His frantic campaign of the past days and hours to engineer his own succession is not the change that people are looking for…..
If this canvassing of MPs is to repeat itself, then this time what MPs say ought to be taken into account at least….
The self-serving, self-pitying ‘resignation’ speech by the prime minister, who stayed after all, was a lesson in how to conduct an undignified ‘departure’…..
Will the nobody from UMNO be able to persuade the royal appointer to stray once more from his constitutional duty and the will of the people and nominate him to run the country together with the same bunch of brigands as before?
The Agong must not make the same mistake twice in the quest for an ‘Anything But Anwar’ candidate. He should respond to what the population voted for and the most MPs want, because that is his solemn duty for all to see……
In return for another year in power and a doubling of his unfettered access to billions of public funding the discredited PM is willing to offer bribes and perks to the majority opposition MPs, but no sharing of power!….
Returning the defeated and depleted UMNO to office even under the elderly ‘clean compromise candidate’ Ku Li only represents more of the same for the people of Malaysia …..
Every day that passes with these selfish limpets clinging on to office is now a day wasted for the people of Malaysia…..
Mahiaddin has now seen fit to move his compliant police action squad onto harassing those who criticised the crass, insensitive and gross remarks about Covid deaths. Is this a sign of strength or weakness….?
The Lame Duck PM has claimed it is better in this crisis for him to remain rather than inflict a change of government. Yet the longer he remains in place with his system of graft and cronyism the worse mismanagement there will be of the Covid pandemic ….
Mahiaddin begged to be given the chance to prove his claim in Parliament, which the King accepted. No date was mentioned as the assumption was that the recall would be immediate! EXCLUSIVE
There has been no comment from the palace over Mahiaddin’s claims that the King has acquiesced to his latest delaying tactics to buy back support. Last week it emerged Mahiaddin in fact had lied. But allies now claim that King and Prime Minister have a ‘Special Relationship’ ….
As thousands are crowding daily into hospitals and dying in the streets, threatened by ’emergency crack down’ ordinances and fines, this line up of ‘hard men’ expect to sit in office for another month having lost the confidence of parliament and all moral authority to make decisions or enforce rules……
As is clearly stated in the wording of the Constitution now Mahiaddin has lost his majority the King has the authority to dismiss him on the same grounds that he appointed him. He needs to act………
Malaysia has been told by one bad tempered lady that the King and Parliament should know their place. Has Rosmah Mansor met her match in a party hopping political plotter who simply sees no reason to test the legitimacy of her right to hand out orders?…..
A constitutional crisis can have its upsides: it settles matters, hopefully for the best. Malaysia is a young democracy meaning that certain boundaries must still be tested and conventions established. Today the People of Malaysia and Parliamentarians showed what they will not tolerate and why…..
It is not Mahiaddin’s decision to close Parliament. As in other constitutions around the world based on Westminster rules, the closure or suspension (‘proroguing’) of Parliament is the prerogative not of the Prime Minister, but the Head of State. So where is the Royal Assent?….
The Constitution of Malaysia is clear: The Prime Minister must enjoy the confidence of the elected House throughout his term of office. If he loses it he must resign and the King must call the person who can command that confidence with the majority of MPs…
According to a letter leaked from the Palace (which so far no media has dared to publish) the King issued a direct order to the Prime Minister yesterday to recall Parliament and to table a debate and a vote on the revocation of the State of Emergency, otherwise he will not give Royal Assent to the government proposal. He complains the defiant Prime Minister has undermined the authority of the throne in refusing to do this so far…….
Please let these guys be joking? Parliament started off as a bad act, that turned into a ridiculous farce as Moo dashed back into his bunker and pulled the ‘Covid’ cover story yet again before ticking off the Referee (Malaysia’s Agong) for calling time on his failed government……..
Are the latest big noise cases over 1MDB really just a game of smoke and mirrors to conceal what’s going on with 5MDB involving X5 as much? If so, they have started unravelling a bit too quickly along with PN itself…….
There is only one way to deal with stubborn, clapped-out donkeys. Drive them out with honking horns…
Nazri chastises critics for having a ‘Malay Mentality’! Westerners should at least know better he told a questioner from Sarawak Report who asked why the MP has sent his son to school in France? “What’s wrong? I don’t understand. You have the mentality of Malays. I don’t understand that. You are a Western person. What is so wrong if I want to have something for my son? Most of all it is FREE education, what is wrong with that?” ….
During the government shutdown of the 2018 election ownership of a sensitive area of state land was transferred from a Johor State Foundation to the Sultan. For two years the lessees of the land were unaware of the transfer, until they were thrown off their farms without compensation. They have now learnt that a gold mining lease has been awarded in the area to a joint venture involving the Sultan ……
Yet another major mining venture has been announced in Johor between the Sultan and a foreign company on the basis that the Sultan’s role is to procure the licences from the state. But with 30% of pre-tax profits earmarked for Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar what’s in this deal for the rakyat who already pay his salary ……?
Malaysia is beset by a dying oligarchy of Soviet proportions at a time when it needs (relatively) young and energetic solutions …..
A fortnight has passed and Malaysia’s chief decision maker remains absent without leave during the country’s State of Emergency imposed by him……
It is not hard to see how an appointment to head his mooted ‘National Recovery Council’ would satisfy a vision in an old man’s mind about how to restore his shattered legacy and establish himself back as the national leader in all but name……
Unrestrained by scrutiny thanks to his bogus SOE it appears that ‘PM8’ has been slipping fast from the pledges of reform he earlier adopted to join PH. This would seem to include personally awarding un-tendered public contracts in the form of favours …..
Taunting and Flaunting – do UMNO’s social media-addicted trophy wives think they help the political careers of their spouses with their grotesque showing off of unexplained wealth at a time of extreme privation thanks to PN incompetence, greed and a bogus emergency now run by a prime minister from a hospital bunker? …..
The absence of effective government in Malaysia has now started to impact on companies beginning to act with impunity as long as they have the right connections. To hell with the investors from the outside…..
The imposters of the bogus ’emergency’ regime have lost all claim to legitimacy with the removal of the royal assent. However, they have now gone rogue entirely, shrugging off all checks and balances and even biting the royal hand that fed them. Time for a citizens’ arrest?……..
Why is the present Malaysian government failing to respond to mutual assistance requests from Kuwait that could enable the repatriation of billions of ringgit stolen from 1MDB and other public funds?….
Texts, allegedly from Norway’s Aker Solutions personnel, continue to emerge. Including dialogue that came into the possession of the MACC from as long ago as 2019 relating to the very same case that has exploded with a police report this week by the Chief Justice of Malaysia ….
Shocking text exchanges have prompted a police report by the Chief Justice. Sarawak Report asks if the texts reveal a system of justice that is utterly corrupted or (almost as bad) if it is merely the widespread perception of corruption that has been used to seek to pressure an outcome to a case? …….
Sarawak Report is now aware of the details behind the shocking police report by the Chief Justice against rogue lawyers purporting to peddle influence over judgements in Malaysia’s courts……
As more and more money has poured into Malaysia’s vaccination effort, with depressingly little outcome in terms of immunising the wider population, concerns over potential ‘leakage’ are growing. Denials are not helped by the lack of oversight and transparency afforded by the state of emergency and suspension of parliament ……
Malaysia needs an answer to the now burning question over what has happened to the 1MDB negotiations with IPIC that were hijacked by the Agong supposedly to return Malaysia’s stolen billions from Abu Dhabi….
How Sarawak’s most vulnerable communities are being threatened and neglected by the disaster of incompetence surrounding PN’s Covid response ……
Malaysia needs to stop turning a blind eye to royal business players, who treat the country’s resources as if they personally owned them, otherwise the country faces reaping bitter consequences……..
Syed Hamzah in accusing Sarawak Report of ‘Fake News’ stated that he sold his shares in Azzahra Products in 2015 and ended his interest in the company. Records say otherwise and also reveal the current owner to be his 27 year old nephew whose father is tied up in the same complaint made to the MACC about related party contracts linked to a public grant …….
With the support of the State Government companies like Samling have destroyed the lands of indigenous communities and left them utterly impoverished. Now the company is threatening legal action to prevent them protesting over its latest attempts to snatch remaining timber in the full knowledge such communities cannot afford to defend themselves in court …….
Malaysia’s drift in governance needs to be swiftly addressed to save lives and the economy to boot……
Sarawak Report has received devastating new whistleblower accusations into CMSB, following the decision of the company’s Board of Directors to reverse its own suspension of Deputy Chairman Abu Bekir Mahmud based on the findings of its own Board of Inquiry report. If the Securities Commission does not step in to manage the affair and protect minority investors then the integrity of the KL stock exchange must surely be at stake……
With this inept $23 billion dollar legal extravaganza PN’s lawyers have thrown away their bird in the hand (the Abu Dhabi IPIC case) for a flock in the bush that are well equipped with beaks and wings…..
“”After the signing , they are very very happy and they said OK we are taking you across to Malaysia”
– Where?
“To KL and then Sibu”
– Who did you meet?
“The owner of the company Mr Dato Kie Wong Yik”
– He was happy?
“Very very happy….”
“Logging companies have barely paid corporate income tax. The group salary and wages taxes they pay are very minuscule compared to the labour-intensive nature of their operations and the export income they derive. It is like they are telling us (tax office) that they are on a serious diet, yet they are putting on a lot of weight out there. We want to get to the bottom of this…”
It would not do for the pot to be calling the kettle black in the matters of nepotism and patronage in an exposed position such as this…….
At RM99 a half litre bottle (more than thirty times the price of pure orange juice) Azzahra’s ‘PIO’ juice drink may be out of reach for most, but it received a hefty BEEP grant before starting to make some stunning claims…..
Who exactly is benefitting from government enterprise grants? Information about controversial decisions has emerged following departmental upheavals instituted by the PN government under the new Sarawak GPS minister in charge……
The London case in which Malaysia was suing IPIC for billions over 1MDB has now been put on ice for over a year. However, promises of an imminent settlement have sunk into the sands………
What Lies Behind The Secretive Shoot-out at the Sarawak’s first family’s firm?….
With the pandemic starting to rage out of control in Malaysia there is growing concern that the endemic crony corruption disease could be hampering vaccine efficiency despite huge sums that have been raised to combat the problem…..
“The problem started when he [the Agong] instructed that the MOH issue yellow booklets to show these people had been vaccinated and possibly allowing them to travel to countries which would accept the booklet…. Anyway, they would have peace of mind that they were less likely to get Covid than the average kampong dweller.”……
The illegitimate chancers of the PN ’emergency’ regime appointed and now propped up by the Agong but not Parliament have displayed one single consistent motive, which is to prolong power to purloin the public purse, if possible forever……
Have the boys from PetroSaudi once more been thwarted at the last minute over their plans to run off with $340 million from 1MDB and carve a quick settlement with PN?
Proper transparency would resolve the concerns about money going missing from 1MDB (again) and yet all that has been offered is an ‘assurance’ by 1MDB’s own Board of Directors. Time for the independent management from PWC to put their reputation on the line therefore and support the statements claiming that the fund’s secrecy around recent settlements conceals nothing untoward ……
At one point it looked as though they might lose their heist from 1MDB, now signals are that PN will again opt for an easy cash grab leaving millions in the hands of the original ‘joint venture’ frontmen from PetroSaudi who helped defraud 1MDB…..
The US banking giant has already accepted a Deferred Prosecution Agreement and paid record fines for the bribery of Foreign Officials and theft from 1MDB. Unless there is transparency over its separate secret settlement with the PN government Malaysians and others will only assume they have done it again……
LKWKKH was set up as compensation for forest communities 40 years ago – so where’s the money? According to auditors millions were invested through Taib family companies and less than 1% went to native projects……..
Who has benefitted and who has lost from the lightening settlement by AmBank involving a scorching fine for its services to Jho Low & Najib over 1MDB – services that senior management and major shareholders like ANZ were surely well aware of? …..
As MP Xavier Jayakumar caves in to blatant pressure, PN’s Azmin Ali has let it be known he has others on his blackmail list whom he expects to join him soon……
Malaysians can thank their foreign minister for humiliating ‘PM8’ who had sought to grovel before one of the world’s most notorious and savage rulers in Saudi only to be sidelined – But what deals await with Abu Dhabi?….
Hadi has let one whopping great wild cat out of the bag by admitting he was part of a political plot to over-turn the democratically elected government from the moment he and his secret allies were defeated in GE14…..
Why has the minority PN Coup Coalition, kept in office only through an emergency declaration, suddenly decided to engage China to roll out a RM15 billion ‘5G connectivity’ contract to be funded by the Malaysian taxpayer in the middle of the Covid pandemic?…..
The hopping urge looks catching as information emerges that key members of Minister Edmund Santhara’s team are also switching residences as political ambitions move from one state to another….
It is pretty sickening to watch the likes of Finance Minister Zaifrul, who did precisely nothing as a banker to prevent the thefts from 1MDB, seek to take praise for the return of monies now. Meanwhile, he and his government have done nothing but threaten and intimidate journalists once more, to whom Malaysia actually owes the debt of gratitude for the unravelling of this scandal……
Wealthy MP Edmund Santhara (currently building up Permanent Residency points in New Zealand) promised constituents he would forgo his salary at the last election……
The US Senator who thought fit to leave his constituents in a crisis, first blamed his family but then owned up and apologised. Edmund Santhara also sought to use his family as the excuse but has chosen to issue legal threats to those who correctly reported on his absence…….
PN’s backdoor leaders have put Herculean efforts into targeting MPs to become ‘Swingers’ like them one-by-one. Each operation involves threats and pressure with an alternative bribe of fat funding (at the taxpayer’s expense). But what will happen when these dirty handed ‘political prostitutes’ return to meet their voters?……
Edmund Santhara’s hopping activities are well-known in Malaysia, for which he has been rewarded. Now however he has hopped right over to New Zealand (in defiance of Covid regs) from where he has continued to draw his ministerial salary since late last year……..
Warning ‘VIOLENT CONTENT’ but you should view it ……
Videos are circling like wildfire on WhatsApp but warn friends against the selfish and life-threatening antics of Anti-Vaxxers who call themselves ‘expert doctors’ from the West…….
The DOJ may have fingered Topaz, Sheikh Mansour’s 1MDB funded yacht, but the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince had already off-loaded it to his Saudi ally MBS, according to reports…….
Malaysians should resign themselves to a chickenfeed settlement from the Emirate that helped Najib defraud billions in return for massive kickbacks. After all, PN wants quick cash now and the Agong rates MBZ as a valued ‘senior’ royal to keep cosy with……..
A tense battle has caught up one of London’s leading law firms as the PetroSaudi boys wage a desperate bid to sneak $330 million out of their client account belonging to 1MDB….
A generation from now it will be Justice Hamid who will be remembered for bravely upholding decency and the judicial establishment who will be remembered for dragging down the reputation of the courts, having proven unable to face even the suggestion of an enquiry into their conduct …..
A howl of wounded pride has swirled round KL this week. The main moaners have by and large no reputation to complain about however, and the ex-AG has not been spilling any secrets ……
The Tommy Thomas memoir has set off a hornet’s nest of separate protests. But, is Apandi really threatening like Najib to place himself in a witness box? Or is this just another attempt to abuse secrecy laws to cover up and protect criminals in power?……..
It seems that the former AG Tommy Thomas’s explosive memoirs have achieved something no-one managed for over ten years – it has lured Najib to testify over the death of his ‘translator’ in the submarine affair, Altantuya Shaariibuu………
As a passports for property scandal erupts in Cyprus we shine a spotlight on the role of ‘global citizenship’ firm Henley & Partners. They deny Jho Low was their client yet admit they received €700,000 in ‘indirect’ commissions from ‘independent 3rd parties’ paid for his receipt of citizenship in Cyprus ……
The former Pakatan Harapan government unravelled because of a series of seemingly inexplicable and catastrophic actions taken by the ex-PM according to Tommy Thomas, who finally offers his insights in a bombshell book…
The strange evasiveness of Malaysia’s PM, Najib Razak, and his cousin the Defence/Transport Minister, Hishamuddin Hussein, became one of the global talking points following the MH370 ‘disappearance’. An explosive new book by one of the international journalists who has followed the story from the start concludes the reason was a massive cover-up …..
Researchers say that poorly planned and executed tree planting schemes (see the spindly trees opposite) are actually doing more harm than good, But allowing areas of forest to naturally regenerate is cheaper and can create up to 40 times more potential for carbon storage than plantations….
Najib and his lawyers are pressing the US courts for information to discredit key witnesses called by the prosecution against him Malaysia in the hope of pinning the blame for 1MDB on them so he can get off himself……
The Malaysian Prime Minister has just acknowledged that the reason for the ‘State of Emergency’ was to prevent Parliament from ‘calling an election’ meaning he has lost his majority and his right to govern. So what has it really got to do with Covid 19? ……
Angry refusal to accept criticism and attacks on human rights advocates and environmentalists as ‘foreign interference’ is not the way to tackle glaring problems in the palm oil business…..
Billionaire trust fund boy, Abu Bekir Taib, is back in action seeking to cash in his freebie tracks of land handed to him by his Dad before anyone can stop him………
Malaysia needs to lose its reputation as one of the world’s most corrupted countries before it finally descends into the status of a failed state. It must begin by returning to the open tendering principle established before the present coup administration snatched office……..
Sadly, long experience has taught Malaysians to assume than any public procurement under the parties who have presently seized power through overturning the election will involve at least 100% mark up to satisfy the greed of the political leadership and its cronies …..
