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2 The TEN: Who are the people named by Justo in a claimed conspiracy against Najib Razak?
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21 December 2015
Pls be aware this email is a scam & pls ignore. Our emails will always end in @sarawakreport.org -.pls RT
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Free Malaysia Today
AG’s aide lodges police report against S’wak Report
Sentul police chief confirms with FMT that Mabel Muttiah lodged a report against Sarawak Report’s Sunday article which alleged foul play in the investigation of Kevin Morais’ murder.
PETALING JAYA: A police report has been lodged against whistleblower site, Sarawak Report, over an article alleging foul play in the investigation of deputy public prosecutor (DPP), Kevin Morais’ murder.
Speaking exclusively to FMT yesterday, Mabel Muttiah, Special Assistant to the Attorney-General said, “I have lodged a police report on the (article by) Sarawak Report this afternoon at the Sentul station.”
Mabel was referring to an article published by the whistleblower website on Sunday, implicating her in the alleged foul play.
Sentul police chief, ACP R Munusamy, when contacted by FMT, confirmed that a report was made and said that the case would be transferred to Putrajaya where Muttiah had read the article.
“We helped her with the report and recorded her statement,” he said briefly.
The blog’s “exposé” concerned alleged text messages Mabel sent to Morais’ family members, which the website said were attempts to “bully and then bribe the family” for the late DPP’s body to be cremated before a second post-mortem could be performed.
“The report was a pack of lies,” Mabel told FMT yesterday. “There must be something wrong with these people. They could have called me and verified the information before publishing the story, but they didn’t.”
“It’s a substandard way of reporting. They are just out to get anyone they can.”
She said the article has put her integrity into question, affecting her image, career, and family.
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Our latest story is online. How AG’s Office Connived To Prevent A Second Post Mortem On Kevin Morais – EXCLUSIVE http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/12/how-ags-office-connived-to-prevent-a-second-post-mortem-on-kevin-morias-exclusive-expose/ …
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AG’s aide rubbishes SR’s latest expose
She says the blog has lied in implicating her in alleged foul play in the Morais murder probe.
PETALING JAYA: “A pack of lies” – that’s what Mabel Muttiah, a special assistant to the Attorney-General, says about a Sarawak Report article implicating her in alleged foul play in the investigation into the murder of deputy public prosecutor Kevin Morais.
The article, published on the whistleblower website yesterday, concerned alleged text messages Muttiah sent to Morais’ family members that it said were attempts to bully and bribe them into pushing for the late DPP’s body to be cremated before a second post-mortem could be performed.
“The report was a pack of lies,” Muttiah told FMT today. “There must be something wrong with these people. They could have called me and verified the information before publishing the story, but they didn’t.
“It’s a substandard way of reporting. They are just out to get anyone they can.”
She said she was considering lodging a police report and taking legal action against Sarawak Report.
“It puts my integrity into question and that is painful,” she said of the article. “It affects my image, my career, my family.”
She also said she was hoping that “something could be done” against Sarawak Report. “They can’t get away with tarnishing the reputation of whomever they please.”
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/12/21/ags-aide-rubbishes-srs-latest-expose/
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12 September 2015
Fake Twitter accounts used to discredit Sarawak Report editor
COMPARE THE FOLLOWING:
1. GENUINE? Probably.
Harry Drakeford
@DrakefordHarry
Work in the banking sector. Badminton champion …. if only. Working in KL and Singapore. Money on mind. Keen to invest in the best.
3. GENUINE. The man is dead.
Philip Goodeve-Docker at St Mary the Less Church, SO20 6BQ.
A Memorial Funeral Service for Phillip Goodeve-Docker will be held on Friday 24th May at 3pm at St Mary the Less Church, Chilbolton, SO20 6BQ.
No flowers but donations to The Queen’s Nursing Institute for Phil’s Fund
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Fake Twitter accounts used to discredit Sarawak Report editor, says paper
These include the stolen identities of Mr Philip Goodeve-Docker, a British novice Arctic explorer and Samuel Morehead, an American Second World War veteran, both of whom died in 2013.
Fake @Twitter accounts used to discredit @sarawak_report editor, says paper http://bit.ly/1HJzler
KUALA LUMPUR — Fake Twitter accounts bearing the photos of dead people are being used in a smear campaign against Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown who has exposed corruption scandals in Malaysia implicating the prime minister, reports British daily The Independent.
These include the stolen identities of Mr Philip Goodeve-Docker, a British novice Arctic explorer and Samuel Morehead, an American Second World War veteran, both of whom died in 2013.
Their photos were used to create false accounts which promoted links to a Facebook page accusing Ms Rewcastle-Brown of fabricating her reporting.
The UK-based journalist is wanted by Malaysian police for the exposes by Sarawak Report on state investment firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the brainchild of Prime Minister Najib Razak.
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The Independent’s report said this latest revelation of fake accounts increased fears that social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter were allowing “dirty public relations campaigns” to be carried out with impunity behind the cloak of anonymity.
Former security service employees “working at the extreme margins of the PR industry” were suspected of carrying out highly funded smears on behalf of powerful interests, it added.
Ms Rewcastle-Brown meanwhile told the paper that social media websites were now being used as key instruments for professional dirty public relations campaigns against her.
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1 September 2015
theSundaily
Clare denies receiving fund from Malaysia
Posted on 1 September 2015 – 01:11am
PETALING JAYA: Sarawak Report (SR) founder Clare Rewcastle-Brown has denied receiving any funding from very powerful people in Malaysia as per Lester Melanyi’s claim.
In an immediate response to Melanyi’s accusation, Clare said Radio Free Sarawak (RFS) is largely funded by a reputable European foundation which focuses on rainforest issues and that she sustained her web hosting costs for both sites from that source.
“We also receive a steady and welcome stream of mainly small donations from people who support our work through our site’s donation page, and those dozens of small donations add up very helpfully to cover some of the expenses we have incurred,” she told theSun.
“For the past year, I have received a salary for my work at RFS and SR … Prior to that I worked on the project entirely unpaid for over four years,” she added.
On Melanyi’s call for her to show her Sarawak Report accounts, she said: “We publish our accounts the normal way and these are available at Companies House.” (Companies House is the United Kingdom’s registrar of companies and is an executive agency and trading fund of the British Government.)
She also confirmed that she had not fabricated any documents and pointed that Melanyi’s accusations were also baseless.
“Lester has not provided a single shred of evidence to back his nonsense claims compared to the detailed research that I have
undertaken for years on the problems besetting Malaysia,” she said.
She added that Melanyi was also only a volunteer in RFS for four months, but was released from the team after the 2011 state elections because “he was idle and deceitful and I learnt he was also working for a third party who was trying to spy on our operation”.
“He knows that I was not being paid at that time and it is ironic that the person who has made money out of Sarawak Report has been Lester Melanyi, who never wrote a single word of any of it.
“This is because he is the one who is now accepting ill-gotten bribes to defame me and my blog, having had nothing to do with even RFS for years,” she added.
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1538666
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On Aug 4, Malaysian police issued an arrest warrant against Rewcastle Brown on grounds of ‘activities detrimental to democracy’ and ‘publishing false information’.
29 August 2015
Interpol rejects M’sian cops’ red notice bid on Clare
Interpol rejects M’sian cops’ red notice bid on Clare http://twib.in/l/L9BA6Ey78kd | https://twibble.io
Interpol has rejected Malaysian police’s request to issue a red notice against Sarawak Report editor-in-chief Clare Rewcastle Brown.
A red notice is akin to an international arrest warrant where member states are informed about an individual wanted for extradition.
In a letter to UK-based NGO Fair Trials International, Interpol secretary-general Jurgen Stock confirmed that the his organisation had rejected Malaysia’s request.
“Whilst Interpol does not usually comment on specific cases or individuals, in light of the significant press interest in this case we can confirm that Interpol’s general secretariat did receive a red notice request for Clare Rewcastle Brown from Malaysian authorities.
“In line with our standard operating procedure, a review was conducted and, on Aug 9, the request for the red notice was refused,” said Stock.
Stock added that Interpol had also asked all of its member states not to use the organisation’s channels with regard to Rewcastle Brown’s case.
“All 190 member countries were informed of the decision and advised not to use Interpol’s channels in this matter and also requested to remove any data from their national databases,” he said.
The letter dated Aug 27 and addressed to Fair Trials International’s executive director Jago Russel, was in response to his query dated Aug 25.
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15 August 2015
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#Malaysian PM @NajibRazak‘s Anonymous ‘Donation’ Was Transferred Back To Singapore! http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/08/pms-anonymous-donation-was-transferred-back-to-singapore-major-exclusive/ …
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11:13AM Aug 15, 2015
‘US$650m from Najib’s account sent abroad’
Sarawak Report has claimed that US$650 million out of the US$681 million deposited into the personal account of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak was transferred abroad after the 13th general election.
The portal said that the money was transferred back to Tanore Finance Corporation at Falcon Bank in Singapore, the same company that had made the initial deposit into Najib’s personal accounts, according to an emailed statement from Sarawak Report.
It said the transfer happened on the same day Najib’s AmBank account was closed on August 30, 2013.
It added that Tanore Finance Corporation was subsequently closed down in April 2014, based on the company’s documents in the British Virgin Islands.
It is unclear where the money at Falcon Bank is now after Tanore Finance Corporation was closed down.
However, Sarawak Report claimed that the accounts frozen by Singapore authorities in the 1MDB investigation is also related to Falcon Bank.
“Insiders have confirmed that the Malaysian prime minister flew over in mid-July for a four-day trip in Singapore, during which he attempted but failed to get these frozen bank accounts re-opened,” said Sarawak Report.
The revelation has raised more questions as Najib and his allies have insisted the massive deposits were a “political donation” intended for Umno.
“This astonishing information answers the former deputy prime minister’s question – posed yesterday – over what had happened to the balance of the money claimed to have been ‘donated’ to Najib personally, on behalf of UMNO, by an anonymous person from the Middle East – purportedly for the election.
“However, it also raises serious further questions for the prime minister as to what right he had to transfer what were supposedly party funds out of the country and why this money appears to have been mixed up with yet more unexplained hundreds of millions of dollars in Najib Razak’s same personal account number 211202200XXXX?” said the portal.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/308646
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We have established that over US$650 million was transferred from @NajibRazak‘s AmPrivate Bank acct in KL to Singapore after the election.
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LengShuang Zi PM’s Anonymous ‘Donation’ Was Transferred Back To Singapore! MAJOR EXCLUSIVE
14 AUG 2015
Falcon Swiss Private Bank, owned by the Abu Dhabi wealth fund Aabar
Sarawak Report has established that over US$650 million (RM2 billion) was transferred from the Prime Minister’s AmPrivate Bank account in Kuala Lumpur back to Singapore after the general election.
The money was deposited into an account in the name of Tanore Finance Corporation (BVI) at Falcon Bank in Singapore on the day the PM’s AmPrivate Bank account was closed, 30/08/2013.
This was the same company account which had originally transferred US$681 million into the same Najib Razak AmPrivate Bank account earlier in March.
Muhyiddin’s question is now answered…
This astonishing information answers the former Deputy Prime Minister’s question, posed earlier today, over what had happened to the balance of the money claimed to have been ‘donated’ to Najib Razak personally, on behalf of UMNO by an anonymous person from the Middle East – purportedly for the election.
However, it also raises serious further questions for the Prime Minster as to what right he had to transfer what were supposedly party funds out of the country and why this money appears to have been mixed up with yet more unexplained hundreds of millions that were in Najib Razak’s same personal account number 2112022009694?
Crucially, no explanation has yet been provided as to how such a vast sum of secret money could possibly have been donated legally by such a method and for such a purpose.
How the money circulated…. despite numerous payments made to UMNO members in the form of cheques from the AmPrivate Bank account before and after the election
How the money circulated…. despite numerous payments made to UMNO members in the form of cheques from the AmPrivate Bank account before and after the election
Tanore Finance Corporation
On July 2nd Sarawak Report and the Wall Street Journal revealed that investigators from the joint 1MDB task force (since disbanded) had discovered that a BVI company named Tanore Finance Corporation had made two payments into the Prime Minister’s personal AmPrivate Bank account number 2112022009694 totalling US$681 million on 21st and 25th March 2013.
Original transfer of US$619,999,988
The Tanore Finance Corporation account used in the transaction was based at Falcon Private Bank in Singapore, which is a Swiss based bank owned by the Abu Dhabi company Aabar, which had signed a RM18 billion ‘strategic partnership’ with 1MDB just days before.
Najib threatened to sue the Wall Street Journal over the article. However it was confirmed by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission last week that the details of the transfer were correct, citing an anonymous Middle Eastern ‘donor’.
Showing the pressure, while lashing out at critics – Najib Razak
Showing the pressure, while lashing out at critics – Najib Razak
This ‘donor’ is therefore assumed to be the owner of the secretive BVI Tanore Finance Corporation and it is baffling as to why the Prime Minister should have emptied his account back into the same company soon after the election.
The Singapore monetary authorities have since confirmed they have frozen two accounts owing to the investigations into 1MDB, which are believed to be at Falcon.
The bank has announced it is cooperating with the regulators on the matter. Meanwhile, half a dozen unspecified bank accounts in KL have also been frozen on related matters.
Insiders have confirmed that the Malaysian Prime Minister flew over in mid-July for a four day trip in Singapore, during which he attempted but failed to get these frozen bank accounts re-opened.
Further mysterious ‘donations’?
Shahrir Abdul Samad – Chair of UMNO Back Benchers received a RM1 million cheque AFTER the election
Beneficiary – Shahrir Abdul Samad, Chair of UMNO Back Benchers received a RM1 million cheque AFTER the election
The Malaysian public and the rest of UMNO are now entitled to ask how it was that the Prime Minister was able to transfer such an enormous sum out of this private account, despite his expenditure on the election?
Was he in receipt of further hundreds of millions of secret donations or had the Prime Minister’s own personal money become mixed up with the ‘donation’ funds?
In either case, how has the Prime Minister acquired such a vast stash of cash amounting to hundreds of millions of US dollars and how could it possibly have been appropriate for all this money to have been sloshing around in this private and secret account, now described as money ‘donated’ for party purposes?
Sources have revealed to Sarawak Report that in fact this AmPrivate Bank account did receive at least two other substantial injections of money during this period in 2013 – one via Saudi Arabia and one via Dubai.
We have been told that the sum in the account swelled above a staggering one billion dollars in the period preceding the election.
In which case it is surely quite extraordinary and inappropriate that the newly appointed Attorney General (the Prime Minister having sacked the last one hours after the Inspector General of Police warned that an arrest warrant was being drawn up on a separate matter) should have announced the closing down of the investigating Task Force into 1MDB?
Election hand-outs
Meanwhile, evidence is starting to emerge that money was indeed handed out personally by the Prime Minister to UMNO party heads not only before the election, but after, according to the evidence starting to emerge of numerous payments to MPs.
Deputy Finance Minister received RM2 million
The money was distributed in the form of cheques, handed to key party leaders by the Prime Minister to be drawn on the relevant AmPrivate Banking account 2112022009694.
Many of the recipients are proving themselves to be some of Najib’s strongest defenders in the present crisis.
They include the UMNO Back Bench Chairman Shahrir Abdul Samad, who received RM1 million in the period after the election and the Deputy Finance Minister Ahman Maslan, who got a cheque for RM2 million.
This confirms that the money was indeed being used, but raises the question as to how the Prime Minister ended up with almost as much money after the election in this account as the sum injected into it from Tanore Finance Corporation?
Another recipient – Mas Ermieyati Samsudin from the Public Accounts Committee also received a cheque after the election
What many will be asking in UMNO is how relative that generosity has turned out to be, given so much more money seems to have been sent back out of the country by the Prime Minister?
There are also the serious remaining questions of legality regarding the handling and the provenance of so much money.
And there is a final mystery to be solved. Examination of Tanore Finance Corporation’s documents in the British Virgin Islands establish that this company was in fact closed in April 2014.
In which case, where were all those hundreds of millions of US dollars sent on to next?
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@sarawak_report @NajibRazak they lie so much, they don’t know what they have lied before,
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9 August 2015
Prime Minister Najib Razak’s Personal Accounts Linked To 1MDB Money Trail http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/07/sensational-findings-prime-minister-najib-razaks-personal-accounts-linked-to-1mdb-money-trail-malaysia-exclusive/ … via @sarawak_report
Sarawak Report 
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Why would a middle eastern donor be willing to donate RM2.6 billion to a prime minister?
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Mahdzir Khalid defiles his own religion by dragging it into a secular matter as an excuse for criminal behaviour. He is saying people should not be investigated over the theft of billions because some of them might be Muslim and some of the people calling for justice might be Christian (not much sign of Jews except in the recesses of Mahdzir Khalid’s own imagination in this matter)
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/…/sarawak-report-promote…
Sarawak Report promotes Jewish agenda aimed at splitting Malays, says Umno man
BY MD IZWAN
Published: 9 August 2015 4:17 PM
August 9, 2015.Umno supreme council member Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid today reminded party members not to believe reports in whistleblower site Sarawak Report, which he claimed promoted the Jewish and Christian agenda aimed at splitting the Malays.
Mahdzir, who is also the new education minister, said this was the biggest threat facing the country’s leaders who were being attacked within and outside the country.
“The Jews and the Christians have pledged that as long as there is the moon and the stars, as long as the end of the world is not here yet, they will decide that Muhammad’s followers will be confused and split among themselves. This is the pledge of the Jews and Christians.
“And today, those who do things to us are not only from within the country, but from outside the country like Sarawak Report, which does not operate from Kuching,” he said when opening the Hulu Langat Umno division meeting today.
Mahdzir said the editor and founder of the London-based site, Clare Rewcastle-Brown, wanted to see Malaysia no longer as an Islamic country.
“Sarawak Report is based in London. Who are they? Clare Brown… who is this Clare? She is the sister of Gordon Brown, the former British prime minister.
“What is their agenda? Their agenda is to see Malaysia no longer as an Islamic country,” he said.
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6 August 2015
Sarawak Report editor gets UK police protection after stalking claim
Sarawak Report editor gets UK police protection after stalking claim http://tdy.sg/1DrT7i8
LONDON — Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown has been accorded police protection after she reported of being stalked and photographed in London’s Hyde Park last month, The Independent reports.
“I have had to put in police reports that I have been stalked and followed,” she told the British daily, who said Scotland Yard is giving her protection in London, where she lives.
“They have put a detail on my house because we have had men sitting in cars, idling. It’s absurd.”
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5 August 2015
Excerpts from:
International Press Institute
Sarawak Report founder faces censorship, harassment after investigation into Malaysia PM
Clare Rewcastle Brown: “All I’m doing is reporting on an interesting story”
By: Cora Henry, IPI Contributor
IPI: You mentioned that your phone is being bugged, and I read that you are being stalked in London.
Rewcastle Brown: It’s almost unbelievable. There were always people idling in cars outside my house. I’d go out and maybe have a coffee somewhere, I’d come back two hours later, they’d still be idling outside my house. And my neighbours are actually noticing the same thing.
[I had a coffee with] someone who was not a contact or an informant […] and he immediately said, “You are being followed”. We could see the same guys walking past time and again, and one of these guys came up and started photographing us through the window, pretending rather unconvincingly that he was photographing someone else […] The next day there was an article saying that we’d met.
I’m pretty sure that it’s an outfit called Protection Group International, PGI. That’s who I reported because they’re doing work for the Malaysian government openly. They’ve gone on the record saying that they are working for them and discrediting all of my research, alleging it was tampered with, but giving absolutely no evidence for that at all.
IPI: Are you worried that you are in danger and, if so, what steps have to take to protect yourself?
Rewcastle Brown: Not if I stick to London. I think if I got pushed under a bus at this stage it would probably be counter productive for them. I am taking reasonable precautions: I informed the police and so on. I think it’s more designed to intimidate anyone who might want to be in touch with me.
[The Prime Minister] just promoted the [ex-minister of home affairs, now deputy prime minister] who is saying that he is going to get his so-called friends in Scotland Yard [to extradite me]. He has to find a crime that I can be extradited on, and he hasn’t worked that one out yet.
Zahid [the new deputy prime minister] is used to threatening people and getting away with it, because people panic if people as powerful as he is look at them and threaten them. But why should I panic?
IPI: Moving forward, do you plan to continue reporting in Malaysia?
Rewcastle Brown: Obviously. All I’m doing is reporting on what is becoming an increasingly interesting story. A lot of the reporting work has been done. You couldn’t have more detail on the crime, frankly. So, therefore, it really is up to other agencies now to act on what we’ve reported, and the people of Malaysia to decide what they are going to do about the scandal.
On the other hand, which is one of the reasons I am being harassed, clearly there is a hell of a lot more that could come out if it’s not dealt with by the proper channels, and I’ll be looking at that.
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Rewcastle reminded that her action has been to publish information which some people in power do not like. “I am merely an investigative journalist who has been doing my job. I have unraveled one hell of an international scandal involving people in high places and the grand larceny of public monies.”
“It’s as simple as that — no plot and no vested interest. The interest of the public is my motivation and duty.”
Free Malaysia Today
Clare: Najib should sue, arrest warrant diversionary tactic
Sarawak Report Editor says the arrest warrant against her was not the crux of the issue but Najib being free to sue her for libel or prove that he has #Nothing2Hide
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, at the centre of a growing international storm over unexplained funds totaling RM2.6 billion in his personal banking accounts and the RM42 billion 1MDB scandal, needs to do better than trot out the cliché “an activity detrimental to democracy” in issuing an arrest warrant against Sarawak Report Editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown.
That’s the response of the Sarawak-born Rewcastle who founded the UK-based whistleblower website to initially go after longtime Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud.
If the Prime Minister has nothing to hide in this matter and if the reports were false, said Rewcastle, there would be numerous more orthodox and far less disruptive methods of dealing with the matter (Rewcastle) than sacking the Deputy Prime Minister; sacking the Attorney- General, closing down the PAC and dismissing members of his Cabinet.
“He could simply have issued libel proceedings or he could have produced evidence (e.g. correct bank statements and transfer documents) that would have shown my reports to be untrue,” said Rewcastle.
“It’s they (the authorities) who are suppressing free speech and arresting people for questioning those in authority,” said Rewcastle in an email on the “activity detrimental to democracy” accusation against her.
“This action (arrest warrant) could hardly be more counter-productive on the part of a government that’s seeking to assure the world that it’s a sane democracy.”
She added that she was unclear on the substance of the accusations by Najib’s agents against her. “I am still unclear whether the agents of the Prime Minister are accusing me of ‘forging false documents’ or obtaining documents through ‘criminal leaks’,” said Rewcastle. “They have simultaneously accused me of both in the past few days.”
“They have been rounding up all sorts of senior investigators to try and find out who might have passed me such leaks.”
She stressed that “they need to make up their minds on this” and produce some substantive evidence on their other accusation: being part of some international plot intent on falsely accusing the Prime Minister of crimes for reasons unknown.
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Clare Rewcastle Brown − “I’m Not Scared” Of Arrest Warrant http://ow.ly/Qv5k4 #clarerewcastlebrown #sarawakreport
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4 August 2015
#SarawakReport editor claims @NajibRazak embarassing himself and Malaysia with arrest warrant http://tdy.sg/1IhswTr
KUALA LUMPUR — With a warrant for her arrest soon to make it to Aseanapol and Interpol’s wanted list, Sarawak Report’s (SR) Clare Rewcastle Brown lashed out tonight (Aug 4) at Mr Najib Razak, accusing the Malaysian prime minister of humiliating himself and his country to the world.
The London-based journalist dubbed the warrant “insane action” by the local authorities, adding that by putting her on the global wanted list, Malaysia was only making itself out to be an international “basket case”.
“Well, this insane action claims to be enabling me to be arrested all over the world. In this way Malaysia has just advertised internationally that it has become a basket case and the international media are currently beating a path to my door to hear my comments,” she said in a comment to Malay Mail Online.
“Under the circumstances, I am unlikely to be praising Mr Najib Razak, however he does not seem to realise how he is demeaning himself and Malaysia in the eyes of the world by this and all his other recent actions and statements.
“Or perhaps he really does not care, because this is all for domestic consumption and he is merely trying to preserve his position in Malaysia and does not care what the rest of the world thinks,” she added.
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#SarawakReport#DearNajib Walk on…..until The Fat Lady Sinks
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7:54PM Aug 4, 2015
Clare: M’sia basket case, cannot extradite me
Sarawak Report editor-in-chief Clare Rewcastle-Brown today claimed Malaysian police have no way to extradite her despite securing an arrest warrant for her in Kuala Lumpur.
She said this was because the ‘crime’ Malaysian police are accusing her of committing does not exist in the UK and most other countries.
“The ‘crime’ under which this warrant was obtained does not exist in most countries outside of Malaysia so I can’t be extradited under it.
“It is a shame for Malaysians that (prime minister) Najib (Abdul Razak) is making rather a fool of the country through such actions,” she told Malaysiakini.
Bukit Aman today announced that it had obtained a warrant of arrest against Rewcastle-Brown under Section 124B and 124I of the Penal Code.
Section 124B concerns activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy while 124I concerns publishing false statements that may cause public alarm.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/307364
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#BREAKING @PDRMsia obtains warrant of arrest against Clare Rewcastle Brown @sarawak_report http://malaysiakini.com
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4 August 2015
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Arrest warrant for S’wak Report editor
Arrest warrant for S’wak Report editor http://twib.in/l/74zL9rB8jpn | https://twibble.io
7:00PM Aug 4, 2015
Arrest warrant for S’wak Report editor
The Malaysian police have obtained an arrest warrant for Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle Brown.
The warrant is in connection with offences allegedly committed under Section 124B and 124I.
In a statement, Bukit Aman said it would also proceed with applications to place her on the Aseanapol wanted list as well as the Interpol red notice.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/307354
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Hear.. hear..!! #standupmalaysia #fightcorruption #malaysiatoday #AtTheEdge #SarawakReport #1MDB #financialcrisis
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Why didn’t Najib explain S$928m donation from Day 1? Sarawak Report editor asks
Why didn’t @NajibRazak explain US$700 million donation from Day 1? #SarawakReport editor asks http://tdy.sg/1g2JH1r
KUALA LUMPUR — Founder and editor of whistleblower website Sarawak Report (SR) Clare Rewcastle-Brown has questioned Prime Minister Najib Razak’s failure to explain from the very beginning that the RM2.6 billion (S$928 million) found in his accounts had come from “donors” and not from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) as previously suspected.
Defending SR’s reports on the funds, the Sarawak-born British journalist pointed out they had been based on information obtained from the investigation on 1MDB, which she said had suggested the possibility of a link between Mr Najib and money from the troubled state investor.
“Gosh! How come the PM didn’t clear all that up immediately on Day 1 then? What we said was that the information had come from the investigation, because it was believed by investigators to be linked.
“How else would we have obtained it?” she wrote in an email reply to Malay Mail Online yesterday (Aug 3).
Ms Rewcastle-Brown also suggested that these donors come forward and reveal their identities.
The London-based journalist did not contest the conclusion that the RM2.6 billion had not come from 1MDB although she noted that it was made by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) after the series of arrests of some of the agency’s own leading investigators.
“People can reach their own conclusion about th
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Sarawak Report’s ‘foreign white woman’ replies…
Free Malaysia Today
Rewcastle: Jakim is Najib’s tool to mislead Malaysians
Sarawak Report in personal danger from people who have been cynically and deliberately misled during Friday sermons.
KUALA LUMPUR: It was demeaning to Malaysians for Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to suggest that a few articles written by “one foreign white woman” could seriously undermine the power and authority of the state, according to Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown. “What has undermined Malaysia and was now threatening to ‘topple’ things was the canker of unrestrained corruption which has eaten away at the authority of the state, the government’s moral authority and legitimacy,” she wrote today in a response to criticism by the prime minister.
She said the immediate danger was from “the so-called Islamic Development Department” (Jakim) and accused it of usurping Islam by turning Friday sermons in mosques into a propaganda tool for the government. “The religion is being used to convince Muslims that foreigners are insulting Malaysia and its leaders,” she wrote.
Quoting a Singapore Channel News Asia report, she said “JAKIM’s argument, is that Muslims who raised the issue of 1MDB would be making themselves victims of foreign powers.”
However, she pointed out that theft, deceit, and perversions of justice were denounced in Islamic teachings. “These are the issues being examined by the forces of law and order in Malaysia today.”
“Instead of suing us as he vowed, Najib is sermonizing us. We believe such deeply irresponsible tactics have placed the Sarawak Report in personal danger from people who have been cynically and deliberately misled.”
How was it that UK-based Sarawak Report — and not Jakim — was a danger to Malaysia, she asked, in an email listing her complaints in exercising her Right of Reply. “Is it not Najib himself that has produced that danger by mismanaging himself into this humiliating situation?”
The “issue at hand in Malaysia” was the investigation into grand-scale corruption and theft of public money through 1MDB and not obsession with her complexion, said Rewcastle. “It’s also a matter of related public money going into the account of the Prime Minister.”
The use of such monies to assist in illegally influencing the outcome of a democratic election, she added, is an issue that should concern all.
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Malaysian Insider
Melanyi clueless about 1MDB expose, just ‘fishing’, says Sarawak Report founder
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Sarawak Report founder makes public emails btwn her and journalist Lester Melanyi http://tdy.sg/1HDF3Aq
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Melanyi clueless about 1MDB expose, just ‘fishing’, says Sarawak Report founder
KUALA LUMPUR — Sarawak Report (SR) founder Clare Rewcastle-Brown today (July 20) made public emails between her and journalist Lester Melanyi to prove that he was not involved in the whistleblower site’s expose on 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
In an email interview with The Malaysian Insider, she said the emails sent by Mr Melanyi to her, from March 1 till recently, revealed that he knew nothing about the 1MDB expose or what she was doing, given that he had asked very “basic questions”.
She added this gave her the impression that he was merely “fishing” for information.
Ms Rewcastle-Brown added she only gave Mr Melanyi polite but distant one-liner replies in her emails, adding that she had not seen him for many years.
“The whole story that I had somehow asked him to be involved in producing the articles and about forging documents is rubbish.”
“It is clear he is completely out of the loop on the whole thing and was asking basic questions, neither is there the slightest reference at all to any exercise of such a nature,” she said.
Ms Rewcastle-Brown said Mr Melanyi had also tried to get her to say certain things, but she dismissed him.
In one of Mr Melanyi’s emails he asked Ms Brown if she was going to “topple Najib”, referring to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
“I said absolutely not, as it is not my role, I am just exposing the truth as a journalist,” she said of the contents of one of the email correspondences between her and Mr Melanyi.
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Today, she said the emails between her an Mr Melanyi would show that she was being sarcastic again when she referred to “managing my large team of writers”.
“I was responding sarcastically to what was being suggested during the UMNO attacks at the time.
“Lester does know perfectly well that I am a one-person writing team at SR… which includes the fact that he is not part of it either and has never ever written anything for my report.”
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Sarawak Report has learnt that the so-called Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has taken action to block our site in Malaysia, although it can still be accessed via other servers across the world.
This is a blatant attempt to censor our exposures of major corruption through the development fund 1MDB, including the information that nearly US$700 million of 1MDB related money was paid into the Prime Minister of Malaysia’s personal AmBank account in KL just before the last election.
This information has already long been disseminated and backed up by other major global news organisations, so we can only assume that the MCMC is fearful that we are about to bring out further revelations.
They also plainly hope that a strong arm, anti-democratic media clamp-down will enable them to contain these issues on behalf of the Prime Minister, who seems unable to answer questions on the matter of these payments into his accounts and has been running away from journalists for weeks.
But, this line of attack betrays weakness rather than strength.
So far, no one in the Malaysian Government has had the guts to take Sarawak Report formally to task over any factual detail of our revelations or to issue legal proceedings which would trigger a public examination of the evidence. This is because our information is overwhelming, easily proven and patently substantiated by a mass of corroborative factual evidence.
It is because they are not in a position to refute the evidence, that certain members of the government have instead spent the last few weeks doing their best to distract from the issue of misappropriated funds at 1MDB by attacking the integrity of Sarawak Report.
Ever more bizarre, inconsistent and unsubstantiated accusations have been channelled through their proxy news media outlets – with just one glaring thing absent, which are facts to back their accusations up.
Ministers have shouted about forged, tampered or distorted documents, but they have been unable to pin point a single example. A bought ‘confession’ from a well-known fantasist and liar has wilted under scrutiny.
So, now the latest step has been taken, which is to pull down Sarawak Report’s website in Malaysia claiming that it has “violated national laws” and published “unverified accusations”….. is there a single person in the whole of Malaysia who believes a word of that official claim by MCMC?
If all our exposes were a dark and tangled plot of elaborate forgeries and lies, why is it that politicians across the political spectrum been voicing anger and concern for months and years about the growing indebtedness and missing billions at 1MDB?
And why are there a mass of official investigations being conducted into this very matter ?
Sarawak Report will not be impeded in any way by this action in bringing out future information as and when its investigations deliver further evidence.
This latest blow to media freedom only brings further discredit upon the present administration, who have proven unable to counter the evidence we have presented in any other way.
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MCMC blocks access to Sarawak Report http://twib.in/l/L77Xb8LL7bz | https://twibble.io
The Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has temporarily blocked access to London-based whistleblower website Sarawak Report, following complaints by the public.
In a press release, MCMC said it had received complaints that the website had published information that has not been verified and are pending investigations.
“Access to this website is blocked temporarily, until the special task force completes its investigation,” said the MCMC.
This is in reference to the joint agency investigations on 1MDB involving Bank Negara, the police, MACC and the attorney-general.
“In relations to this, the MCMC wishes to advise the public to be cautious when sharing information on social media, especially material which are not certain to be true.
“The contents could be fake. Such contents could cause affect the peace and cause national instability, disrupt public order and affect economic stability,” said the MCMC.
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Website at centre of 1MDB controversy inaccessible in Malaysia
Website at centre of #1MDB controversy over leaked documents inaccessible in Malaysia http://tdy.sg/1VgNqZV
KUALA LUMPUR — Sarawak Report, the website at the centre of controversy over leaked documents on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), is currently inaccessible from within Malaysia.
Visitors to the website are greeted by a placeholder informing them that the page cannot be found, in a style similar to that normally used for sites that have been blocked by local Internet regulators.
The site is accessible, however, if visitors use domain name systems (DNS) other than those provided by local Internet service providers, further suggesting that the Sarawak Report unavailability may be intentional.
Attempts to ping the Sarawak Report website address return responses that states “mcmc-redirect.maxis.com.my”.
Internet access and services in Malaysia are regulated by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
Sarawak Report founder Clare Rewcastle-Brown could not confirm if her website was in fact being barred here.
“I am just getting news that it is being blocked in Malaysia – not in UK. I am looking into it right now,” she told Malay Mail Online when contacted to verify the outage.
http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/website-centre-1mdb-controversy-inaccessible-malaysia
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No Difference! – We Prove How The Allegations Of “Tampering” Are Lies http://fb.me/20Q8fAJnE
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Rewcastle added that the information published on Sarawak Report was not the only source claiming misappropriation in 1MDB, as it also tallied with other sources in the public domain.
Malaysiakini
8:38AM Jul 19, 2015
‘I showed tampered email, now show me yours’
Sarawak Report editor-in-chief Clare Rewcastle Brown has challenged detractors who claim she had used tampered documents for her articles to show proof, just as she has done in response to a “confession” by a former journalist.
Rewcastle told Malaysiakini that she immediately published the email between her and former journalist Lester Melanyi, after the latter accused her of admitting to “forging” documents in their email correspondence.
“When Lester Melanyi played around with an email I had sent, I immediately published the correct version, which exonerated me and shut him up.
“Why cannot PetroSaudi do that?” she asked.
Rewcastle was referring to allegations by the Malaysian authorities that she had used “tampered” documents from PetroSaudi International Ltd (PSI) for her articles that were critical of 1MDB.
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Rewcastle said if what Sarawak Report had published was untrue, the aggrieved parties should have provided evidence like she did to debunk Lester.
“If it was all completely untrue, how come PSI did not immediately come forward with 1MDB, Jho Low and all the rest to disprove it with their own factual evidence?
“It is a desperate ploy in the absence of these parties being able to bring forward any solid evidence to exonerate themselves, which would be plain and easy for them to do if they were innocent of the misappropriation of money that I have been pointing to,” said Rewcastle.
She said that it was strange that Thai police are now taking a similar line about tampering after meeting with a delegation of Malaysian diplomats on Thursday.
“Certainly, in a properly governed country such matters would be left to the courts and if details of an investigation were being leaked in advance to a journalist in this way, it would be held as immediate contempt
“Which leaves me further convinced that this is all a public relations set up in which certain Thais are obliging certain Malaysians, but no court case is really envisaged,” she said.
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Noting that Thai police had described the tampering as “small but important“, Rewcastle pointed out the PetroSaudi information was vast and any change would have led to inconsistencies in the overall picture.
“To have altered the PetroSaudi server documents into the mass of damning evidence against the company that I have published, from an alleged clean bill of health for all concerned would have required an enormous amount of tampering and distortion.
“It would have needed industrial scale tampering and a complete re-working of the entire body of thousands of emails and events in order to change a supposedly innocent enterprise into a complex fraud on many levels, involving many different parties along the way,” she said.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/30549
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Who Believes The New Straits Times?
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.
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SARAWAK REPORT REPLIES TO NST’S EXCLUSIVE
Malaysian Insider
Accused of forgery, Sarawak Report puts Umno-owned NST under spotlight instead
KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 — Sarawak Report (SR) founder Clare Rewcastle Brown is accusing New Straits Times (NST) of publishing false news to discredit her website, noting that the newspaper is owned by Umno.
The London-based editor rubbished the newspaper’s report yesterday that claimed her website tampered with documents on PetroSaudi International’s (PSI) abortive deal with 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), claiming the article contradicted other reported statements from the Thai police on the same matter.
“I don’t believe a word that is reported by the NST, based on their recent stories. So, if the policeman has allegedly said these things to NST who else has he said it to?
“The NST account entirely contradicts what other newspapers have reported the Thai police as saying,” she said in an email to Malay Mail Online, claiming the newspaper was prone to bias on the topic of 1MDB.
“And one therefore has to wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that NST is owned by Umno and the chair of Umno is Najib Razak who is up to his neck in the problems with 1MDB which have been the subject of these reports?” she added.
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The report, however, contradicted a previous article by news agency Associated Press (AP) that said the Thai police have refused to share with Malaysian diplomats information on their investigation on Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo.
Justo, a former PSI director who was recently arrested by Thai police for attempting to extort and blackmail his former employees, is said to be the source of the documents that allegedly suggest impropriety in the PSI-1MDB venture.
According to AP, Thailand national police chief Somyot Poompunmuang had conveyed this to a delegation of Malaysian diplomats after meeting them two days ago.
“So how come this guy gives a different story to NST?” Rewcastle Brown asked, referring to Prawut, the Thai police spokesman interviewed by NST.
“After all, the sort of statements that NST are quoting this policeman as making are highly unprofessional for a policeman in the middle of an investigation,” she added.
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