The highly effective campaign to prevent Taib’s family company Ta Ann from destroying Tasmania, like Sarawak, is making Pinocchios out of politicians there! Last week the state’s Deputy Premier, Bryan Green, was subjected to national humiliation when he became the top story on Australia’s ABC news for supporting the company’s claims [..]
The BN Agriculture Minister, Mong Dagang, who demanded a disabled man be deprived of his RM300 a month support and the PRS leader, James Masing, who supported his action, have both been caught seeking illegal kickbacks for themselves worth ten of millions!
They were making the money out of NCR land defrauded from their own constituents in the same area!
Over the past week we have exposed how public contracts amounting to RM100million were gifted to two companies belonging to two of Taib’s key BN allies.
However, the largesse corruptly handed out to to the immediate family of Deputy Chief Minister, Alfred Jabu and their politically connected colleagues has dwarfed such sums.
First we exposed his massive timber concessions and enormous oil palm plantations, now we can detail how Assistant Minister for Entrepreneur Development, Naroden Majais, has received RM100million in government contracts for his construction company!
Two of Taib’s right hand political allies, Datuk Naroden Majais and Datuk Hamden Bin Ahmad are major shareholders in a company that has been handed vast tracks of timber concessions in the Baram area. The concessions total 840 square kilometres!
Earlier this week we exposed how Baram’s Federal MP, Jacob Sagan, was secretly bought by a series of timber concessions and construction contracts, worth hundreds of millions of ringgit, into supporting Taib’s proposals to flood his own region with a new monster dam project. However, Sagan is just one of an army of Dirty Datuks
More information has been coming to light about the corrupted business ventures of Dato Jacob Sagan, Malaysia’s Deputy Minister for International Trade and Industry.
The people of Baram have been sold down their own river by their native MP, the Federal Deputy Trade & Industry Minister Jacob Sagan!
Sarawak Report has received exclusive information, indicating that the local man’s support for Taib’s plans to flood his own area has been bought by two large timber concessions[..]
As the Ukit people perch pitifully on the edge of the waters that drowned their homes, Taib Mahmud has moved swiftly to maximise his own personal profit from the Bakun Dam. A series of astonishing deals are now being processed, all designed to ensure that his own family companies get enormous kickbacks [..]
Displaced families, who have received so little compensation from Bakun, may be interested to learn how Taib and his own family are planning to make billions out of the dam project, based on an investment of just RM2.00![..]
Campaigns on opposite sides of the globe are focusing attention on Sarawak today – and on those foreign companies that have been tempted to do business with the corrupted government of Taib Mahmud. In Switzerland the Bruno Manser Fund launches its stop www.stop-corruption-dams.org, in coordination with an international coalition of NGOs who are protesting at Taib Mahmud’s
BN mouthpieces, such as the Borneo Post, have been working hard to discredit the integrity of Sarawak Report and all our investigations into the corruption behind the destruction of the Borneo Rainforest and its peoples. They refer to mysterious “hidden agendas” and have quoted accusations that we are producing “baseless and mischievous” information resting on
For the first time people in the UK are beginning to wake up to the Malaysian High Commissioner, who turns out to be a fellow called Datuk Seri Zakaria Sulong. This is because he has just made the most extraordinary series of insensitive and highly undiplomatic remarks, if a report by the Borneo Post is
With Taib insisting he can only scrape together a miserable RM3.47million to alleviate all the hard core rural poverty in the state, it fairly beggars belief that he has felt it appropriate to generously donate land worth at least RM30million to the members of the Sarawak Club. The Sarawak Club comprises all the richest people
One very old adage is that you can’t bring your material wealth into the next world. Plenty of ancient cultures hoped otherwise, packing fabulous riches into the tombs and pyramids of greedy past rulers. But it was the tomb raiders who had the last laugh on them. More recent sufferers from excessive greed have invested
Industry insiders have revealed that the main suppliers of timber to the cheating Asia Plywood Company, are the well-known Sarawak tycoons, the Miri-based Hii family. Asia Plywood, which rents the major saw mill ‘Tegas Kesuma’, based in Tanjung Manis, is Malaysia’s largest plywood company. Earlier this week it was caught out deceiving regulators and customers
Two of Britain’s top chain stores have been caught out deceiving their customers over ‘eco-friendly’ wood by our latest Sarawak expose, which has also been taken up by the leading UK paper, the Daily Mail. We can demonstrate that B & Q and Wickes, which both specialise in selling building and decorating materials, have been
The Chief Minister is not used to criticism and stamps like an angry child in the face of it. This is a great weakness, because it means that wrongs are not put right and fawning publicity can make him a laughing stock. This week his Press Secretary, Amin Sahmat, got into a terrible twist trying to explain the cancelling of the once regular post-cabinet press conferences, as reported in the Borneo Post.[..]
Bruno Manser Fund’s research team have done the world another favour. They have conducted a careful and painstaking analysis of the leaked Land & Survey Department information…we can now see clearly the extraordinary extent of the theft carried out by the Chief Minister and his family of Sarawak’s native and state-owned lands[..]
The Chief Minister of Sarawak faces the humiliation of being prosecuted for cheating members of his own community in a Kuching court. Some of the potential plaintiffs are among his own constituents! [..]
So, the threats and bluster have come to naught. What a non-surprise! Taib Mahmud launched his libel case against Malaysiakini way back in 2008, thundering from the State Assembly that the evidence that his brother’s company had accepted kickbacks from Japanese shipping companies seeking licences to export Sarawak’s timber was “lies” [..]
Taib did not get the response that he wanted from the Swiss Government yesterday. But he did buy some time. In answer to questions from MP Maya Graf in the Bern Federal Parliament, the Swiss Finance Minister, Evelyn Widmer Schlum, fell back on traditional Swiss secrecy!
For the first time in 30 years Abdul Taib Mahmud has cancelled the traditional press conference, normally held at the Wisma Bapa Malaysia after the weekly Cabinet meeting. Even more astonishing, the journalists were barred from the building, as if they were unwanted intruders [..]
In a dramatic move, a group of NGOs have today called on the Malaysian Attorney General and the Commissioner of Police to arrest Abdul Taib Mahmud! A letter drawn up by the Bruno Manser Fund and signed by a number of Malaysian and international NGOs, including Greenpeace, requests [..]
Sean (Hisham) Murray, husband of Taib’s daughter Jamilah, appears to have unwittingly exposed his wife’s illegal dual nationality! Under BN’s own strict laws, Malaysians are not allowed two passports and they have to surrender their Malay nationality if they take citizenship elsewhere.
