Wheeler Dealer Sultans?
It is not enough to do the right thing: leaders must be seen to do the right thing and even the perception of conflict must be avoided ….
It is not enough to do the right thing: leaders must be seen to do the right thing and even the perception of conflict must be avoided ….
The former King of Malaysia and Sultan of Kelantan presides over impoverished people but exhibits considerable wealth. Now the UK is gossiping at how he is also accused by his former wife of leaving her to bring up his son in the kind of poverty experienced by so many of his subjects…..
Two consecutive election results have made clear the majority of Malaysians want an end to political corruption and reform. The PAS party have rejected this request on both occasions and indulged in the orgy of plunder under the unelected coup administrations of Muhyiddin and Ismail Sabri. They have no right to claim ‘moral’ superiority whilst criticising others…….
Rishi Sunak promised “Integrity, professionalism and accountability” after the sleeze under Boris Johnson and chaos from Liz Truss. However, the party’s newest appointment shows positions of influence are still for sale with peerages in the pipeline ……
The old guard of GPS Sarawak are well represented in the new administration as a reward for their belated support for the new government. In every case their vast wealth and business interests look certain to block attempts to reform the corrupted practices that made them rich in the first place…….
First Najib and then Taib hired Israel based APCO, and then its allied FBC Media from Texas, to attack and defame Anwar and later Sarawak Report. Next, Bell Pottinger was hired in London. Then, Jho Low funded a massive western media operation to attack SR over 1MDB (and Najib chucked money at RPK). Now, the online attacks have begun again but this time they appear paid by China – or Jho Low again? Meet ‘Tony Cartalucci’ aka ‘Brian Joseph Thomas Berletic’ the Thai based ‘vlogger’ with a mission to destroy….
Sarawak Report has been harassed and faced aggressive litigation from numerous London law firms and KL copy cats over the past decade, generally acting for crooks and kleptocrats. This week the UK government and the UK Solicitors’ Regulatory Authority issued stern warnings to law firms and promised to tighten the law against such actions…..
The Agong deserves to be keep well out of this and to remain untarnished – he should leave the parties to slug it out on the floor of parliament not behind closed doors at the palace with his name dragged in.
He just needs to give each of them their turn in order of their precedence in the popular vote.
It is not the first time that the party-hopping PN Chairman, Mahiaddin, has been found ‘economical with the truth’ in presenting alleged SDs to the Palace showing MPs’ support. This practice should end….
Tonight people in Sarawak have been asking each other why did Abang Johari display such eager and ready support for PN and PAS’s Hadi Awang, for whom Muhyiddin is now second fiddle?…..
It has been noted that November 19th is designated International Toilet Day as well as Malaysia’s Election Day. It is becoming increasingly apparent that many of Malaysia’s top politicians may themselves be flushed away in the monsoon rains……
Once again the sub-text is ‘anything but Anwar’ and once again the game-plan that has emerged will be to encourage an abuse of the role of the monarch in the election process….
The colour-coding is the opposite but the similarities between Malaysia and the recent US elections look very compelling…..
Jaws dropped today as a High Court judge in Kuala Lumpur refused to allow prosecutors to freeze the return of assets, which he said were not in his mind sufficiently proven to have been stolen, pending the appeal that has been brought against that judgement….
Top army veteran calls out ‘bogus’ tendering process over RM8 billion aircraft and RM400 million drone contracts and claims they are ready to sign off to preferred (more expensive) bidders the day after the election…….
Those who have conspired to thus beguile and trick their victims are no better than vile drug dealers who seek to suck the life blood from their clients……
Ex-PM, Dr Mahathir, says the “worst thing that can happen” at GE15 is for the “Gang of Crooks who are running Barisan Nasional” to come back as a government…..
Sarawak Report has ended up reporting on volumes of corrupt practice in Malaysia over recent years. Now all the perpetrators are fighting amongst each other in the hope of regaining office and avoiding jail. It is not a pretty sight and such creatures and those who once supported them are not fit for office. Their only promise is more chaos and more corruption …..
A wealthy litigant has been left with egg on their face after a High Court tossed out their libel case today which had been brought against a respected media organisation…..
Former AG Tommy Thomas has filed his own case against the government against a clear violation of his constitutional rights in releasing, with malicious intent and in advance of any legal action, confidential details of an ‘illegal report’ by a ‘special task force’ with no lawful standing. He appears to have a strong case!
Whilst a front of stage struggle continues for the leadership of the Conservative party, it is the battle for influence behind the scenes that is equally worthy of attention. Whoever ends up in charge will have the same set of lobbyists jostling to advise on their every move……
Is there anything Liz Truss could have done this weekend to make herself even more unpopular? You would not have imagined so, but she has just conferred a knighthood on the ‘On Your Bike’ man, her new Party Chairman Jake Berry! At least Berry has acted on his own advice when it comes to boosting his family funds it seems – EXCLUSIVE …..
Is a man who either went to some lengths to avoid registering a discounted bulk purchase of 7 flats from a friendly donor in his own constituency or who dumbly failed to do so properly really the best choice to rescue the ‘Trusterfuck’ government in the UK? …..
As the Battersea Power Station development in London finally opens in the presence of the Agong and Malaysian developers backed by Malaysian taxpayers’ cash we look at some of the UK intermediaries who have profited while promoting the project in their capacity as decision makers in the public interest by at the same time taking up directorships with the spin-off company Eco World. Did murky Malaysian money muddy this London project?…..
Is there anyone at the top of the UMNO mafia organisation that does not have a record of corruption and abuse of power hanging over them? Answer, probably not and certainly not ex-No1, current No1 and No2 …….
If UMNO was hoping to avoid constant reminders of its criminal connections and the global 1MDB scandal during GE15 then maybe November was not such a clever time to call it after all? The celebrity trial of the year is due to set off the fireworks on November 5th in Hollywood. If that was not in the UMNO PM’s diary then someone slipped up…..
More questions about the latest assault on Selangor’s depleted forests as the interests behind companies licensed to quarry come to light ….
The chaos and corruption of Malaysia’s present lawless regime is leading the country daily into further ignominy and into the ranks of ‘basket case’ countries best to avoid……
The Conservative Party’s ‘250 Group’ of major donors appears to have received troublingly close access to the new Chancellor, allowing potential insight into his budget plans denied others in a series of gatherings over the past weeks. Meanwhile, the line between so-called policy advisors and corporate catspaws has diminished to non-existent……
The Taib family’s long-running and vindictive legal attack on the Swiss NGO, the Bruno Manser Fund, has met with a stunning reversal as the international body OECD has finally come out to support BMF against what it reveals as bully-boy tactics and undue influence buying by the Sarawak linked company in Ottawa…..
Malaysians are now faced with competing with other creditors to retrieve the investment of millions stolen from 1MDB into a failed development in Mannheim, Germany says a local investigative journalist from the town…..
The BN/PN ‘coalition’ are riven with friction as they seek to get off the hook and at the same time attempt to convince the public they have dealt with their decades of corruption and abuse of power…..
The new Downing Street Chief of Staff has issued legal threats and denials following the exposure of his involvement in illegal foreign interference and alleged bribery during a US election campaign in Puerto Rico. However, his claims appear disproved by the evidence in court…….
Questioned by Sarawak Report the new Downing Street chief of staff Mark Fullbrook’s former employers, CT Group, originally lied claiming their work was not conducted for a former Governor of Puerto Rico via illegal foreign funding. Court documents now prove they knew it was. The top government advisor has now turned witness to avoid prosecution says the Sunday Times ……
The art markets are one of the avenues through which dirty money can flow with far greater ease than the more regulated banking system……
Minister Abdul Latiff Ahmad has now threatened auditors for naming a fellow company shareholder as his wife. The question is, given this woman also managed companies accused of siphoning money from the LCA contracts to Boustead, why does he not identify who she therefore is?…..
PKR deputy chief Rafizi Ramli has been hauled in by the police and told to surrender his phone and give a statement in response to a police report by a Bersatu minister claiming he has been defamed. Meanwhile, the self-same minister is yet to be questioned about the staggering sums of money that disappeared under his watch into a company that auditors have said belonged to his wife…..
The worst is that Rosmah can well afford it as everyone in Malaysia knows, including her paid blogger who sought to get her off the hook through contempt of court …..
Large chunks of the recently released Boustead auditor’s report remained mysteriously redacted. Sarawak Report can now reveal why. The black ink covered up how ‘suspicious’ and ‘dubious’ ‘irregularities’ identified by the auditors on the part of the French firms DCNS, Ameris France and Alizes Marine related to cover-ups over the Scorpene affair and misappropriations from the LCS contract…..
Confronted over their role in the LCS procurement scandal, Germany’s Rheinmetall claims it played an innocent role in a ‘normal arrangement’ and unfairly ‘lost money’ from the project – despite keeping silent on the subject for all these years ……
Kuwait has been sitting on $1.8 billion of stolen Malaysian cash for two years as KL refuses to pick up the phone and admit another scandal by ex-PM Najib. Indeed, ever since the UMNO coalition seized power once more we have seen a return to cover-up and secret negotiations when it comes to the return of Malaysia’s stolen money ….
The clanging of keys and the slamming of the jail door behind Najib tonight has brought one long saga to an end. However, it is also the beginning of so much more to be revealed…..
Contraves Advanced Design Sdn Bhd was funded by Malaysia’s Boustead but controlled by Germany’s Rheinmetall Air Defense AG. RM1.185 billion was paid for procurement into Contraves which was only billed RM397 million for the items by France’s DCNS……
On the eve of planned charges in the Navy Ship Scandal we update an article we ran in January of this year pointing at the heart of the problem of disappearing funds, which as always appears to lie in a classic middleman scam using a German company with as dubious a reputation when it comes to bribery as DCNS in France ……
Having been disappointed over its attempts to milk a lucrative settlement in return for dropping charges against Jho Low the coup government is now found out to have been negotiating with the PetroSaudi Boys as well!….
Leaks prove CT Group are promoting corporate clients whilst advising its political clients, including Boris Johnson on how to pack the House of Lords. The influence-peddling, secrecy and conflicts of interest must end …….
Britain’s lamentable dearth of rules has seen a catastrophic collapse of good governance in the face of greed at the heart of the Tory party. Prime Ministers should not be allowed to hawk honours nor should lobbyists accept secret foreign payments …….
A Venezuelan banker who donated £500k to the Tories and was also a client of the Party Chairman, Ben Elliot, hired the PM’s top advisor Sir Lynton Crosby to provide election support worth $300,000 to the former Governor of Puerto Rico. According to the FBI, it was a bribe for closing down an investigation into suspicious activities at his bank…..
Names in the frame include mega-bankrollers not only of the Conservatives but of Boris personally. In this developing series we ask to what extent the known front runners are also of benefit to the wider public …?
Time to start digging round the treasure islands to find Malaysia’s missing RM1.5 billion in Jho Low’s secret trust accounts…..
UMNO and the toady Royal Malaysia Police force demonstrate how they plan to continue to run Malaysia as a crook’s paradise if they keep control in GE15……
Following the unanimous conviction of Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng in New York there are signs that prosecutors may be moving to target higher officials from the bank. After all, the trial exposed damning evidence about the men at the top and what they knew….
It has emerged that just a month after the collapse of US law firm Kobre & Kim’s secret negotiations with the Malaysian Government of behalf of Jho Low their lead lawyer has moved on…..
There are clear questions of ethics facing US law firm Kobre & Kim over their negotiations on behalf of Jho Low to apparently trade the dropping of charges against him for the return of stolen money….
Whilst his associates were working on a secret leadership campaign on behalf of the present Chancellor, confidential information obtained by Sarawak Report reveals that the Australian political strategist and close advisor to Boris Johnson, Sir Lynton Crosby, was drawing up separate plans to enable the prime minister to pack the House of Lords in order
From the day the political perpetrators of 1MDB and countless other kleptocratic crimes executed their coup on February 28th 2020, restoring those stolen assets has represented barely more than an attempt to re-steal the money……
The new contenders lining up to lead Britain seem to have one thing in comment – lots of money but a strong unwillingness to pay the taxes imposed on others by their own government. They include THREE Chancellors who dodged on paying taxes …..
Battalions of lawyers are employed across the developed world to silence comment on behalf of the super-wealthy. Has the world been blinded against issues in plain sight thanks to this service? It seems to be the case…..
Tickets have been sold for the Summer Party event where wealthy Conservative supporters will be eager to rub shoulders with government ministers. The guest list is never published, however Sarawak Report has exclusive details on the venue which is likely to add to existing controversy ……
Only in UMNO Malaysia could a civil servant imagine that a secret backhander of no less than RM137 million could be described as a ‘legitimate consultation fee’. Yet that is what Razak Baginda has told the world and presumably tells himself having refused to pay his lover a fraction of that amount to keep silent…….
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…..
As a shipload of mysterious timber extracted from Papua New Guinea is impounded in Bintulu we look at how the carbon speculators are also targeting the poor communities of that nation. This week one local Governor threw out a project he labelled a “scam” and future carbon credit deals have been suspended. A lesson for Malaysia?…..
Once again it would seem that the Sultan of Johor has utilised an election period to drive through a massive construction project for his own benefit. This time it is the extraordinary Muar off-shore oil and gas reclamation scheme….
Just weeks ago it would have seemed inconceivable that the attack dogs from Britain’s defamation law firms, who have proved so relaxed about taking cash from all quarters to harass and silence journalists, would find themselves held to account. Now following an active campaign the UK government is taking action over their excesses together with other European authorities …..
The alleged cream of the next generation of Britain’s aspiring political leadership are being educated in governance at an institution set up by a man who made his money from the corruption of Putin’s Russia and lectured to by the brother of the world’s most notorious kleptocrat……
The Scoop On Iran is that Britain has already paid its £400 million frozen debt that has seen the release of the British prisoner Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as part of a deal that has unlocked sanctions on Iran through a parallel agreement with Russia. EXCLUSIVE REPORT
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…….
Yesterday’s appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People by no less than 19 civil society organisations, including WWF Malaysia, the Centre for International Environmental Law and South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership, is a damning document. It demands intervention by the international peace organisation over the state’s bogus ‘Nature Conservation Agreement’
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?……
Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation this century are far higher than previously thought, doubling in just two decades and continuing to accelerate….
Najib has been found guilty of a massive and record-breaking theft against his own people. However, now is the time to deal with his accomplices not just at the lower levels of Goldman Sachs but those who made millions in bonuses at the very top of the bank thanks to giving the green light over 1MDB …..
Thanks to the testimony of Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner it is now undeniable that the theft of billions from Malaysia’s development fund involved complicity at the highest levels both in that country and in Abu Dhabi……
It is disheartening to see that the one person who has ended up facing trial over 1MDB from Goldman Sachs is the sole Malaysian and practically the lowliest person involved from the inner circle at the bank….
The Sabah Coalition Government has backtracked Into chaos over the $80 Billion Carbon Cowboy Heist Attempt, with law officers seeking to blame ‘misinformation’ by international media as in-fighting breaks out over a scandalous attempt to corner the carbon market ….
Thanks to Malaysia’s Deja Vu Coup Coalition all the worst practices that signatured Najib’s failing BN regime are now back and the world has noted their presence with distaste and sanctions. The impact on the country’s economy and reputation will follow on its oppression of freedoms and rights…..
Sarawak’s own Native Land Rights and its remaining forest wealth have, like in Sabah, been put under renewed threat by the plans announced by the newly self-empowered Chief Minister to cash in on the Carbon Credit market..
A secret one hundred year ‘conservation’ and ‘carbon credit’ deal for Sabah’s rainforests signed off by the Deputy Chief Minister has been estimated at a profit value of $80 BILLION, of which 30% was assigned under confidential terms’ to a small company owned by a known associate. He is threatening action against those who have spilt the beans……
Malaysians need to understand their fundamental problems and know their real enemies. These are the kleptocrats who have robbed the nation and sought to divide it for decades to benefit themselves. They were removed at GE14 but now they are back with a vengeance and need dealing with once and for all…..
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……
As reports emerge that the missing billion from the Boustead Littoral Combat Ships project may be traceable to Singapore we ask some fundamental questions about the structure of venture and the ‘procurement sub-contract’ from which the money appears to have been siphoned out – a vehicle co-owned by a major German company……..
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…..
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……
If KPMG had hoped to restore its reputation by participating in this shoddy deal over 1MDB and put that scandal all behind them, Sarawak Report can assure the accounting giant that it has achieved the precise opposite by once again engaging in a questionable deal with an UMNO government ……
Najib has published his own self-justifications daily on Facebook and in a proxy book by his communications advisor Roman Bose. Therefore, his vengeance against the former AG for exercising his own freedom to write a book is telling. UMNO’s ‘Special Task Force’ is the Court Cluster’s latest blatant attempt to re-write history and cancel court judgements to avoid the jail sentences they deserve….
Under the cover of Covid crackdowns those restored to power by Malaysia’s backdoor coup returned to their rampant plunder of resources with a vengeance. The population have been locked inside but the loggers have been unleashed as if on borrowed time. Now the rains have washed away their cover…..