Money Politics was once a phrase adopted by frustrated Malaysians sickened by graft, backhanders, bribery and all the rest. Now, ever more clearly, a British version of the problem has started to emerge and it often starts with donations of foreign money with a murky past…..
After years, even decades, hundreds of Sarawak Land Grab cases are still wending their way through the courts, long after the native lands in question have been plundered and destroyed. The glaring issue in these David and Goliath battles is that the concessions themselves were almost without exception the product of corrupt cronyism and nepotism under the rule of the former chief minister and current billionaire Governor of the state, Taib Mahmud……….
The mystery ‘NGO’, Advokasi Pribumi Sarawak (Sarawak Indigenous People’s Advocate), has complained SR “discredited” it by suggesting it was a PR outfit for the logging giant Samling. Why at the same time has the PR company behind the outfit pulled its client portfolio off the web and changed its contact numbers?….
When it comes to ripping out forests, dodging environmental restrictions and heavy handed tactics towards indigenous protests, the global timber giant, Samling, leads the field. However, when it comes to the subtler arts of communication, specifically disinformation known as ‘Black PR’, the Sarawak loggers appear out of their depth…..
Jho Low’s celebrity pal cum business partner had pleaded innocence over his role in laundering money looted 1MDB and the attempted corruption of the US government on behalf of Najib and then China. The jury decided otherwise….
Swiss prosecutors have moved to indict the managers of PetroSaudi, Tarek Obaid and Patrick Mahony, who for eight years have managed to spend 1MDB’s stolen money and live unpunished for their role in aiding and abetting Najib and Jho Low in pulling off Malaysia’s Heist of the Century….
Migrant rights campaigner Andy Hall has exposed numerous forced labour scandals in Malaysia. He says modern slavery has become endemic in the country owning to the corrupt abuse of regulations imposed on guest workers to the country, which land them in debt and beholden to their traffickers and employers. He has condemned the recent hand out of vast new quotas for extra workers without sufficient planning to ensure they are protected from the entrenched corrupt practices that need reform…
More toe curling details on how Malaysia’s stolen money was employed in attempted bribes to influence successive Presidents of the United States have emerged from the New York trial of hip hop star Pras Michel…..
Detail from the Jho Low money laundering trial in Kuwait has provided new information about how China worked to assist Najib Razak at the highest levels to raise stolen money from projects in Malaysia in order to cover the thefts from 1MDB…..
It was Sarawak Report that first spotted the 1MDB linked donations into Democrat campaigns, alerting investigators in the United States. The present indictment against Pras Michel and Jho Low claims they funnelled $100 million in illegal cash to gain influence over President Obama and the US government. The rap star recruited his friends as “Straw Donors” to hide the the real source of the prohibited foreign money….
The Kuwaiti criminal court has now published its judgement against what it describes as an “organised criminal group” consisting of Jho Low; Sheikh Sabah, son of the former Kuwait prime minister; his lawyer, Saud Abdelmohsan; a former businesss partner, Bachar Kiwan and Jho Low’s Kuwaiti friend, Hamad Al Wazzan who shared the proceeds of “funds seized from the Malaysian government” totalling in excess of a billion dollars. How much will Malaysia get back and what about the damages?…….
The son of Kuwait’s former prime minister, Jho Low’s college mate and Malaysia’s own top fugitive, Jho Low himself, have all been found guilty of laundering hundreds of millions in stolen Malaysian money used by Najib to cover up 1MDB in a landmark ruling by the Gulf state…….
The UK media regulator OFCOM’s rules preclude the awarding of broadcast TV licences to any entity that holds a party political or public policy agenda. But it appears that is exactly what has been allowed to happen after the recent takeover of GB News….
SR has received an anonymously written email, purporting to be from GT Plywood, angrily refuting that the activities in Baram described in our previous article were linked either to that company or to the wider group controlled by the KTS Lau family. So, will KTS give us a full interview about their actual operations? So far, no answer……
The pictures say it all and in this item we will use a lot of them to show Malaysians just what the greedy logging group behind GT Interhill are doing in Middle Baram as, once again, the desperate blockades put up by local people have been torn down by the bully interlopers with their heavy machines, thugs and tame police force…..
