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……
It’s not on the scale of Malaysian political corruption, but the UK public are rightly concerned the Conservative Party is on a slippery slope as the ‘Cash For Honours’ row engulfs the government. Based on links to 1MDB Sarawak Report asks how one former party vice-treasurer was ennobled at the tender age of 38 after an apparent donation of just £125,000 and questions whether foreign money flowed behind the scenes?……
Football glory has become one of the most sought after forms of reputation laundering by the super-wealthy with image problems. Russian oligarchs, US corporate raiders and now Arab dictators with human rights issues have been crowding to buy up UK clubs as they attempt to re-brand. Sarawak Report’s examination of Malaysian corruption has led it to the Middle East and also to the potentially cancerous extension of such dirty money into the heart of UK decision making….
Malaysia’s interests in its multi-billion dollar case against IPIC are being handled by a law firm with a long history of secretly representing the property interests of Abu Dhabi’s Royal Family ……
Who is left surprised to learn that over US$340 million of 1MDB’s misappropriated cash has apparently been found nestling in the client account of a major US law firm and that there is more sitting in one of the UK’s top banks?…..
After the banks and Jho’s Middle Eastern royal accomplices it is a swathe of western law firms and PR companies who have most profited from Jho Low’s affairs and the thefts from 1MDB. However, whilst the banks are paying a price the law firms appear so far unscathed….
Sarawak Report has solved the mystery over who was paying Kobre & Kim and Schillings, plus Gibson Dunn & Crutcher tens of millions of Euros for services to Jho Low AFTER he had been exposed as a wanted billion dollar fraudster by the DOJ…..
Bogus Sarawak website Sarawak Bersatu was commissioned by Taib Mahmud and run out of London to anonymously defame Radio Free Sarawak and Sarawak Rerport before the 2011 elections…..
PNB is the next major public fund to start selling off its assets abroad. So, what will happen to the money?…..
Three hugely expensive buildings, which are sitting empty in the heart of Mayfair, form part of the asset portfolio that the Low family are seeking to prevent US law enforcers from seizing as stolen goods….
On 1st June 2010 a sum of $10 million was transferred from Obaid’s JP Morgan Suisse account A/C 7573800 into the EFG account in London. This was the account into which Jho Low’s Good Star Limited had secretly paid the $85 million dollar “brokerage fee” in October 2009 ….
British Ministers may choose to say that 1MDB is Malaysia’s businesses. However, they cannot legally ignore money laundering in Britain’s capital city, once it has been drawn to their attention…
Relations between the UK and Malaysia should naturally be warm. However, as Prime Minister Najib Razak makes his way towards the UK this week, David Cameron’s welcome party should concentrate on that friendship with the Malaysian people, rather than selfish financial opportunities. After all, Najib represents a discredited minority government, which everyone knows would have
Mishcon de Reya, the London lawyers who represent Taib and his son-in-law Sean Murray and firms Sakto, Sakti and Ridgeford Properties, have been warned to “stop defending the corrupt” and to ditch their most controversial clients. In a statement issued today the Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) point out: “Mishcon de Reya’s relationship with the Taib
The man pictured in the party-buggy sitting next to the Deputy Chief Minister, Alfred Jabu, is a Greek called Achilleas Kallakis. This was in April 2008 and Kallakis was already a man with a criminal record. Back in 1995 he and a colleague, Alexander Williams, had been convicted in the UK of selling false Hong Kong passports for RM 100 thousand each and also
