The judge's verdict awaits in the Altantuya case. However the facts on which it will be based are so overwhelming that the defendant Razak Baginda has once again publicly refused to come to court to deny them......
Putin's oligarchs have operated no differently to Jho Low. It beggars belief they raided the state without the sanction of the man in charge or got away with so much money (and stayed alive) without being proxies. So, just as Jho Low lobbied for Najib, why should the West imagine they have not acted as Putin's agents all this while?......
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 ......
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.......
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?......
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......
The judge's verdict awaits in the Altantuya case. However the facts on which it will be based are so overwhelming that the defendant Razak Baginda has once again publicly refused to come to court to deny them......
Exclusive research reveals no less than 15 of the leading carbon credit companies operate as opaque institutions located in offshore jurisdictions, thereby withholding from users who the shareholders and beneficiaries are......
The present King of Malaysia has demonstrated on several occasions now that he feels no shame in publicly consorting with the convicted kleptocrat Najib Razak, so it is time to explain his motives and exactly what has happened to the money his family received from 1MDB? .......
The appalling attempt by Samling, one of the world's largest and most notorious timber companies, to bully Indigenous rights group Save Rivers in Sarawak with a law suit to silence protest against eco-destruction has caught the attention of the global anti-SLAPP movement which is gathering pace.....
Ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng has learnt you can be the fall guy and be found guilty at the same time. However, his trial has pointed a damning finger at far more senior figures who ought not be allowed to escape the evidence against them.....
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