Commentators so often dismiss the idea that ordinary voters can detect or even care about high-level corruption. It is a lesson that over-powerful politicians can learn to their cost. Najib and BN were overwhelmed by the anger engendered by their plunder of public money and now in the US, once a bastion of the rule of law, Donald Trump faces the same backlash….
In May, we revealed negotiations involving Jho Low were underway to resolve the outstanding repayments due on Malaysia’s RM8 billion pipeline loan, raised by 1MDB/SRC from China, from which the money had disappeared. In return for writing off the debt, it was agreed there would be no mention of China’s collusion in Jho’s apparent theft of the money. Now the terms have been announced as a ‘Recovery & Repurposing’ ……..
New details on China’s blatantly corrupt collusion with Najib to steal billions from Belt & Road projects, funded by Chinese loans which Malaysia has to repay, can now be pulled together to give a clear explanation of Jho Low’s 1MDB cover-up operation…..
The Sarawak state government claims to be visionary and future thinking. So, why is it allowing backward timber and plantation concerns to tear down and destroy its most valuable potential future assets at a time when biodiversity and climate control are top of the global agenda ?
Given so many powerful figures have seen charges dropped and sentences set aside in Malaysia, it can hardly have seemed fair that the grandest kleptocrat of the lot should not be entitled to enjoy the loot of office. Service in the public interest is clearly just for the little people whilst those who enjoy the spoils of abuse of power will take care of each other…..
Over a billion dollars stolen from Malaysia as part of the 1MDB cover-up was laundered through Kuwait. The scandal has landed the son of the former prime minister of the Gulf state in jail. Yet, the whistleblower who exposed these crimes was sidelined by the MACC – until last year when it emerged that Kuwait was ready to return a small portion of the stolen cash…….
Belated prosecutions by Swiss regulators raised major questions about Jho Low’s remaining stolen assets, apparently not surrendered by his bankers at the time of his exposure over 1MDB. It shines possible light on how the fraudster continues to have access to the vast sums he has promised during his efforts to gain a pardon for his crimes…..
The MACC has told campaigners on behalf of jobless ex-SFI workers in Sipitang that it will investigate what has happened to the RM130 million fund that the Chief Minister announced in 2022 had been set up to support the laid off employees ……
The rumours swirling around Malaysia that Rosmah pledged a house in name of her son-in-law to an influential official in order to gain a Royal Pardon for Najib have caught the eye of investigative journalists at the New York Post…
If you are an ex-KGB officer and oligarch pal of Putin in trouble over fraud allegations or maybe a Chinese crook hiding from the world’s largest single fraud (aka Taek Jho Low) there is a specialist ’boutique’ law firm ready to acquire your custom in Washington DC and advertising their services for UHNI’s in trouble just like you…….
As the Presidents of the two superpowers prepare to meet in Beijing, both are caught in a sideshow involving Malaysia’s most infamous fugitive Jho Low – An exclusive Sarawak Report Investigation reveals the background to his US pardon request….
It has taken 8 long years of legal pushback by Goldman Sachs for the bank to finally settle with shareholders for the damage done to them by its crooked dealings over 1MDB. Late April it was reported an accommodation has been reached which will be submitted on 20th of this month. There is no detail
Late on Wednesday night KL time the Editor of Sarawak Report received a series of peculiar WhatsApp text messages on her personal phone. They purported to be from Bukit Aman Police Station requiring her attendance at the Terengganu Magistrates Court in five days time, Monday 27th April, as the defendant in trial against her. Had her lawyer informed her the police officer asked? …..
It is not often the CEO of a major public owned company acts as a whistleblower, alleging the massaging of accounts to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds (RM1.7bn). Don O’Sullivan had been offered the chance to quietly walk away instead with a very nice settlement comprising 6 months payment of his half
1MDB’s $1.83 billion legal suit against PetroSaudi’s legal advisors White & Case has sparked both regulatory and criminal investigations in the UK. Sarawak Report has reviewed the law suit and the evidence that prompted the MACC accouncement last week that it has recommended criminal charges be brought against ‘several individuals’……
If it is found the SDT have not exceeded their legislated powers and that it is I who have exceeded my rights to freedom of expression and to report in the public interest, then I am resigned to pay the price…..
Online media behemoths suck information and trillions of dollars from the global community, but invest little in accountability for their actions and have been made exempt from the very penalties they help exact on others….
Sarawak Report’s probe into the settlements over Tim Leissner’s crock of stolen assets – as he seeks a pardon to escape his sentence for defrauding 1MDB – has prompted extraordinary revelations about reparations due to Malaysia that appear to have escaped the DOJ’s net…..
As Sarawak Report was unravelling the 1MDB money trails in 2015-16 guilty bankers were taking notice, and some were discussing ‘strategies for dealing’ with the problem together with Jeffrey Epstein….
The story of 1MDB has seemingly evolved from a promising narrative of US enforcement bringing white-collar criminals to rightful justice to a more tawdry tale of bargaining and double standards, where money talks ….
As America asserts its ‘hemispheric hegemony’ and a new world order for 2026, one legal case involving New York’s notoriously cut throat investment bank, Goldman Sachs, is testing whether the principle of ‘might is right’ also extends to powers of jurisdiction…..
Professional enablers who made lucrative earnings out of the 1MDB heist include the major law firm White & Case and Goldman Sachs bank. As Najib is found guilty suspected decision-makers at both these institutions have so far escaped accountability for their breaches of due diligence and trust – or worse, knowing complicity in return for handsome fees?
