Concerned staff at 1MDB have confided that all computers and records at the troubled fund were recently called in and wiped. They say this includes not only personal computers belonging to staff, but also the mainframe servers as well!
Will Riza Aziz be making libel threats against the New York Times today? After all, the New York Times has repeated and corroborated every single point that has been reported in this blog about the PM’s stepson’s unaccountable wealth over the past year and confirms the ties between his Hollywood production company Red Granite and Jho Low…
In an exclusive personal interview granted yesterday to Sarawak Report, former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad has made clear that he is not satisfied with the latest announcement by 1MDB…
The boss of PetroSaudi International in London, Patrick Mahony, has recently been forced to deny rumours that he has been funding Hollywood’s ‘wild child’ actress Lindsay Lohan….
The 33 year old Taek Jho Low has been out buying yet more high profile friends and contacts, this time at the UN…
London’s Sunday Times newspaper has headlined on an explosive revelation that the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was hired by PetroSaudi, the controversial company funded by a loan from 1MDB, for RM345,000 (£65,000) a month!
The list of scandals surrounding Malaysia’s rogue ‘development’ fund 1MDB just gets longer. Today, DAP’s Tony Pua released a further set of revelations about yet another of this outfit’s multi-billion dollar loans, where the money once again appears to have disappeared into thin air. The vehicle on this occasion is a company called SRC International
After years of denials, Sarawak Report has accessed documentary evidence showing the spendthrift tycoon, Taek Jho Low, has been enjoying a hands-on role in the management of the controversial public fund One Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). The evidence further indicates that the huge sums that the young man has ostentatiously spent on record purchases of
After months of refusing to identify their backers, the film production company Red Granite Pictures has now named its main sponsor during an interview with the New York Times. He is the Abu Dhabi based Chief Executive of Aabar Investments, Mr Mohamed Ahmed Badawy Al-Husseiny. Aabar is a fund known to have strong investment ties with
Hollywood’s news hounds have been left intrigued by the announcement of a final settlement between Red Granite Pictures, the production company owned by Najib Razak’s step-son, Riza Aziz, and the original producers of their next movie release ‘Dumb and Dumber To’. There have been limited statements from either side, however Sarawak Report can exclusively detail
Malaysians will be interested to know that just last month the Penang born pal of Rosmah Mansor and her son Riza Aziz, Jho Low, aged 32, was honoured in Houston for his philanthropic gift of a whopping US$50million (RM163million) towards cancer research at the University of Texas.
Following our earlier exclusive expose Sarawak Report has unearthed further exclusive evidence proving the links between the mystery tycoon Jho Low and Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund One Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). It shows that in 2011 1MDB bankrolled a multi-million euro debt buy-out in Ireland, which formed a key plank in Jho Low’s strategy to
For well over a year Malaysia’s mystery tycoon, Taek Jho Low has been adamantly denying his links with the shadowy sovereign wealth fund 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
The Hollywood law suit initiated by Najib’s step-son Riza Aziz against fellow producers Steve Stabler and Brad Krevoy has rebounded with accusations against him, according to reports in the Los Angeles media. The two have amended their counter-suit against Aziz and his well-funded production company Red Granite to accuse him of ‘violation of the Racketeer
Instant movie mogul, Red Granite’s Riza Aziz, has purchased a secret Hollywood mansion in the most expensive part of Beverly Hills overlooking LA. Sarawak Report has established that 36 year old Mr Aziz, who earlier spent some three years working in London for HSBC, purchased 912 N Hillcrest Road for $17.5million in September 2010. The
At Hollywood’s glittering Golden Globe Awards last week two new ‘hotshot producers’ basked in the limelight, as the star of their latest movie took the award for best actor in Wolf of Wall Street. Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland of Red Granite Pictures enjoyed a special mention of thanks in Leonardo Di Caprio’s acceptance speech
PM Najib Razak’s step-son Riza Aziz was earlier interviewed by the top Hollywood magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, about his eyebrow-raising series of investments in the movie business. When they asked about what his family thought, he implied that his ‘Dad’ took an interest and monitored the content of his films. Referring to the current US$100million
As the fall-out continues from our previous expose into Najib’s step-son’s foray into the movie industry, along with a house buying spree in the United States, friends of Riza Aziz are rushing to his support. However, their comments so far are likely only to make things worse….
The wife of the PM, Rosmah Mansor, is apparently advocating that every Malaysian school child should be shown the newly released Leonardo di Caprio film, The Wolf of Wall Street, in order to warn them against greed and immorality.
Sarawak Report would like to draw the attention of the United States financial regulators to what has emerged as an exceedingly large and unusual payment made during a recent off-shore bond transaction, conducted by one of its major banks.
Last week, with shocking deceitfulness, Taib Mahmud announced in a video that he and his children have always avoided doing business in Sarawak: “I don’t want conflict of interests to haunt me all the time. If I do business inside the country, people will say I use my influence to enrich myself, so we did it outside the country.” But, haunt him we will for the very reasons he spelt out! […]
