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An unmistakable reek of dishonesty hangs over prime minister Liz Truss’s newly appointed chief of staff, as he moves to silence media coverage over his recent Puerto Rican misadventures by issuing blanket legal threats. Mark Fullbrook, who managed Truss’ leadership campaign and was rewarded with the post only last week, has hired the ‘top gun‘…

The Sunday Times newspaper has now confirmed reports by this site that senior executives of the election strategist and PR/lobbying company, CT Group, were interviewed by the FBI as “subjects” of an ongoing criminal prosecution in Puerto Rico. It relates, as the newspaper reports, “to an alleged criminal plot to bribe an American politician and influence a…

Back in 2016 Jho Low was fire-selling paintings to raise multi-million dollar loans at a time most banks would not touch him as a client. Sarawak Report wrote about the calls to regulate that flow (below). Six years later it seems little has changed and the top auction houses are still advertising their services for…

According to news reports, the former deputy defence minister and present minister in the prime minister’s office, Abdul Latiff Ahmad, has issued a letter of demand to the directors of Alliance IFA (M) which produced an audit report for Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation tracing hundreds of millions of ringgit that disappeared from the scandalous LCA navy…

Last month PKR deputy leader Rafizi Ramli revealed astonishing information about the way contracts were handled in the so-called Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) affair, where RM9 billion has been wasted on six naval boats that were never built. One of the most blatant and egregious misappropriations, according to a report by the Malaysian contractor Boustead,…

Today the French media outlet Intelligence Online followed German news organisations in questioning the role of their country’s arms manufacturers over Najib’s latest Navy ships defence scandal, the RM9 billion Littoral Combat Ships (LSC) that were never built. France’s Naval Group, formerly DCNS, are already embroiled in the earlier Scorpene submarine scandal for which they have received…

The spiralling scandal of Malaysia’s Littoral Combat Ship procurement disaster has begun to reach the European nations whose companies have emerged as pivotal players in the long overdue RM9 billion contract that has yet to produce a single boat. Germany’s Der Speigal magazine published a damning review this weekend based on the documents that have…

This article is a re-issued update of the article we ran in January following the arrests of the front person for the Boustead procurement programme carried out in conjunction with a German company Rheinmetall, in conjunction with a senior navy figure.  After arrests in January by the MACC of two of the most senior staff linked to the…

Najib’s Scorpene Submarine imbroglio (2001-6) brought shame and convictions on France’s major defence manufacturer, DCNS, after matters eventually came to court. The French trial also identified Najib as the corrupt Malaysian official whom DCNS bribed – he was Defence Minister at the time. Now, in the so-called Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) case (2010-present and also…

The implications of yesterday’s scandalous revelations about the relationship between Britain’s most powerful firm of political lobbyists and a fugitive Venezuelan banker charged with bribing US politicians have yet to be fully absorbed. It is crystal clear from the criminal indictment, laid before the High Court in Puerto Rico on Thursday after the arrest of…

In an explosive series of revelations, Sarawak Report can exclusively report that a fugitive Venezuelan banker, charged yesterday by the US Department of Justice for bribing the former Governor of Puerto Rico (who has been herself arrested) has been a major donor to the Conservative party and also donated significantly to the Royal Pageant earlier this…

Multiple leaks have pointed to a slate of predictable nominations to the Upper House as Boris Johnson’s proposed Resignation Honours List comes under review by the House of Lords Appointments Committee [HOLAC] – an institution the prime minister has previously ignored when it has sought to veto his more troubling choices. In a now established…

One of the intriguing aspects to emerge from the leaks, later confirmed, about recent negotiations between the Malaysian government and lawyers acting for Jho Low is the offer that was reportedly made of a RM1.5 billion payment by the fugitive in return for charges being dropped. Jho Low was apparently requesting a return of his…