A London-based news organisation had tampered with the leaked documents from PetroSaudi International (PSI), the oil firm that struck a deal several years ago with 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Thai police said.
The confirmation, believed to be the first by the Thai police, appears to corroborate a previous claim made by a UK-based cybersecurity expert that the documents, allegedly originated from arrested Swiss national Xavier Justo, had been doctored before they were released on Sarawak Report, a London-based whistleblower site.
According to New Straits Times, however, Thai police spokesman Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri did not name the news outlet in his phone interview today but said that it belongs to a Malaysia-born woman who moved to Britain.
He is believed, however, to be referring to UK-based Clare Rewcastle Brown who runs Sarawak Report.
Funny how Thai police say all these things to the NST and nobody else!
We just wonder why other media do not point out more clearly that they are merely quoting a biased UMNO owned paper rather than the officer himself?
There is no way this officer of the Thai police is in a position to allege this lie that Sarawak Report “tampered” with documents – and if he has really done so then it was for money or other motives, because it is not the truth.
Instead of mauling the messenger (something UMNO have lately announced they don’t believe in) PetroSaudi, 1MDB and indeed Jho Low and Najib Razak must confront the issue – if US$700 million was not diverted away from the 1MDB PetroSaudi joint venture into the Good Star account, why can’t they account for its whereabouts?
Why have they been caught out so many times lying and then having to admit the money isn’t where they said it was and why was US$530 million transferred from Good Star to Jho Low’s personal account in Singapore?