The judge’s verdict awaits in the Altantuya case. However the facts on which it will be based are so overwhelming that the defendant Razak Baginda has once again publicly refused to come to court to deny them……
Exclusive research reveals no less than 15 of the leading carbon credit companies operate as opaque institutions located in offshore jurisdictions, thereby withholding from users who the shareholders and beneficiaries are……
The present King of Malaysia has demonstrated on several occasions now that he feels no shame in publicly consorting with the convicted kleptocrat Najib Razak, so it is time to explain his motives and exactly what has happened to the money his family received from 1MDB? …….
The appalling attempt by Samling, one of the world’s largest and most notorious timber companies, to bully Indigenous rights group Save Rivers in Sarawak with a law suit to silence protest against eco-destruction has caught the attention of the global anti-SLAPP movement which is gathering pace…..
Ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng has learnt you can be the fall guy and be found guilty at the same time. However, his trial has pointed a damning finger at far more senior figures who ought not be allowed to escape the evidence against them…..
As a shipload of mysterious timber extracted from Papua New Guinea is impounded in Bintulu we look at how the carbon speculators are also targeting the poor communities of that nation. This week one local Governor threw out a project he labelled a “scam” and future carbon credit deals have been suspended. A lesson for Malaysia?…..
Once again it would seem that the Sultan of Johor has utilised an election period to drive through a massive construction project for his own benefit. This time it is the extraordinary Muar off-shore oil and gas reclamation scheme….
Just weeks ago it would have seemed inconceivable that the attack dogs from Britain’s defamation law firms, who have proved so relaxed about taking cash from all quarters to harass and silence journalists, would find themselves held to account. Now following an active campaign the UK government is taking action over their excesses together with other European authorities …..
The alleged cream of the next generation of Britain’s aspiring political leadership are being educated in governance at an institution set up by a man who made his money from the corruption of Putin’s Russia and lectured to by the brother of the world’s most notorious kleptocrat……
The Scoop On Iran is that Britain has already paid its £400 million frozen debt that has seen the release of the British prisoner Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as part of a deal that has unlocked sanctions on Iran through a parallel agreement with Russia. EXCLUSIVE REPORT
Putin’s oligarchs have operated no differently to Jho Low. It beggars belief they raided the state without the sanction of the man in charge or got away with so much money (and stayed alive) without being proxies. So, just as Jho Low lobbied for Najib, why should the West imagine they have not acted as Putin’s agents all this while?……
If the UK government is at last serious about dealing with foreign corrupt practices it should not stop at sanctioning Abramovich or even just Russian oligarchs ……
Sarawak Report has challenged Kobre & Kim who handled Jho Low’s PR and surrender of stolen assets to admit whether they still represent the fugitive and what due diligence they do on money laundering as so-called ‘Reputation law firms’ now find themselves in the spotlight for servicing dodgy billionaires…….
Yesterday’s appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People by no less than 19 civil society organisations, including WWF Malaysia, the Centre for International Environmental Law and South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership, is a damning document. It demands intervention by the international peace organisation over the state’s bogus ‘Nature Conservation Agreement’
The UK ‘reputation law firm’ Carter Ruck has come out fighting today claiming it has “has never acted for Russian entities seeking to challenge sanctions” and is “not acting for, and will not be acting for, any entity associated with the Putin regime”. So, what does that actually mean?……
