1MDB Probe Closes In On Sarawak
The story of Sarawak’s bonds and the role played by Goldman and Deutsche Bank in the murky finances of the state threaten to be every bit as scandalous as 1MDB and the facts are coming out….
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Time To Investigate Abu Bekir’s ‘Payments In Kind’
If the MACC wish to start investigating corruption in Sarawak they could do worse than start by examining the Taib adminstration’s hand outs to his son, whom he claimed while chief minister did ‘no business in Sarawak’…..
Time For Answers Over Sarawak’s 1MDB
The disgraceful ‘disappearance’ of the life savings of Sarawak’s dispossessed land owners at the hands of Sarawak’s top bigwigs deserves a 360 degree investigation by the MACC…..
Sarawak’s Timber Industry Is Finished Says Devastating Secret Assessment
The ‘firesale’ destruction of Sarawak’s valuable timber base has destroyed a priceless asset that could have sustained the economy indefinitely, according to expert consultants hired by the State of Sarawak…..
Havoc And Destruction – Sarawak’s Logging Industry Is Globally Everybody’s Loss
It will be small comfort to the people of Sarawak to learn that it is not only they but communities all over the world who have suffered the rape and degradation of logging thanks to their local timber mafia……
The Truth About Sarawak’s ‘Forest Cover’ – Why Shell Should Think Twice Before Engaging With The Timber Crooks
It looks green on the map and it may even look green from the sky. However, for Sarawak to boast it has conserved its forests is a disgraceful and tragic lie….
Nothing To Do With Us Guv – KTS Has Issued A Report Against ‘Illegal Logging’!
KTS’s new found concern about ‘illegal logging’ in peatland areas (which their ‘environmentally concerned’ company has been seeking to ‘protect’) has apparently resulted in a police report. Sarawak Report suggests a full MACC investigation is necessary into the logging and oil palm industry in Sarawak and beyond, as soon as possible before the main orchestrator of the corruption dies……
How Canada’s Wealthy Couple Splash Sarawak’s Cash
Jamilah Taib Murray has reaped vast rewards from Sarawak timber and the pouring of public money into family companies where she holds shares. Over in Canada’s wealthy neighbourhoods she is known as the charity queen, if not back home……
Damned Corruption Began With Bakun
The words of the Murum lumber boss that “it was always 100% about the timber” has applied to all of Sarawak’s mega-dam projects, starting with Bakun……
Cronyism, Kickbacks and An Eco-Catastrophe – The Story Of Murum Dam
The main purpose of Murum Dam was to extract billions of dollars worth of virgin timber says a former insider angry at being strong-armed out of contracts by companies closer to Taib……
Who Is Representing Who In The Mulu Standoff? – SPECIAL SARAWAK INVESTIGATION
This Pastor for years championed protests and police reports against the Mulu headmen and companies logging community lands. So, how did he suddenly become the poster boy for the timber barons citing ‘foreign interference’?…….
Dayak Daily Diddle: Rural Grants Diverted To Pay For Party Political Propaganda In Sarawak?
Former PRS members are ‘spilling the beans’ about the alleged misuse of money handed out in the name of ruling party ‘rural development grants’ to promote political propaganda instead……
The Forced Ponzi Scheme That Is Indeed Sarawak’s 1MDB
There is competition in Sarawak as to which egregious kleptocratic scandal rates worst. However the loss of the money given as compensation to Native Customary Landowners after the forced removal of their lands rates very high on the list….
How Much Did The ‘Sultans’ of Sarawak Receive In The Mulu Land Deal?
The questions are mounting over Abu Bekir’s deals over Radiant Lagoon and other large tracts of Sarawak’s landbank, which were handed to his company Titanium Management by his own Dad….
A Criminal Corruption Case Is Crying To Be Opened Against Taibs Over Mulu
Records show how the Taib family deliberately concealed the genuine ownership of the plantation company Radiant Lagoon, whilst Taib himself presided over the granting of generous licences……
Sarawak’s Mulu Scandal Is A Symptom Of World Class Corruption
The global scandal sparked by the Mulu Park clearances in Sarawak represents just one example of how deforestation is driven by oil palm corruption and timber corruption and these outrages must be brought to a halt if Malaysia is to convince the world to buy its palm oil…….
‘Wayang’ Fire Hydrant Project Continues To Place Lives At Risk In Sungai Asap EXCLUSIVE EXPOSE
Some 15,000 residents at the forced settlement of Sungai Asap continue to live unprotected from fire, owing to half-finished fire hydrants that still don’t work, say those who attempted to put out the devastating blaze at Uma Bawang…
Our Problems Lie Closer To Home Than Europe, Say Smallholders In Sarawak
Land-grabbing and how the industry is skewed to favour big players is what troubles the minds of oil palm smallholders, who are used time and again to rebut criticism of the industry and major deforestors in Borneo…
Wealth Wins Political Favours For The Taibs In Canada…..
“I would consider them, among many, to be my friends…. it’s the MP’s responsibility to advocate on behalf of their citizens” – MP Andrew Leslie, who weighed in to stop BMF’s application via the OECD to open due scrutiny of Taib’s family wealth in Ottawa…….
Bustari Brothers Booted Out of Borneo Highway Project (Finally)
It may be taking time, but bit by bit the glaring corruptions of Najib Razak’s government of patronage are being dismantled. Vested interests are fighting back every step of the way….
Raiding Paradise – How The Taibs Continue To Cash In On Sarawak’s Public Wealth
It’s time to open the books on Sarawak’s biggest financial asset, the Taib family fortune……
Return Of The Viking!
Questions for Torstein – are you working on this ‘conservation project to promote high value timber’ for free?; Since when did you become a reforestation expert? Was your contract open to tender?…..
As Primary Industries Minister Signals Oil Palm Halt, Sarawak Forestry Keeps Chopping Native Lands
It is time for a full inquiry into the handing out of native lands and resources to politically connected cronies and for justice to be given to Native Customary Landowners, who have been shockingly plundered and abused in a timber and plantation version of the gold rush……
Thug Rule In Sarawak
Once again local people seeking to benefit from their own lands have found themselves ultimately combatted by brute force, mediated by ‘police’ hired by the plantation company in question……
Same Old Story In Sarawak
Sarawak Report can exclusively reveal that the original owner of the company now in the spotlight over the latest Sarawak land protests in Mulu was none other than Taib’s own son, who sold it to one of his Dad’s favourite cronies…….