After a fractious trial not only have the Swiss prosecutors demanded the maximum sentence be passed on the two PetroSaudi directors but they want them locked up immediately on the grounds they are a flight risk!.....
The plans for an ‘eco-city’ at Nusantara on the island of Borneo is fraught with environmental risk of global significance. Enthusiasts must hesitate from rushing in the name of progress where scientific experts would fear to tread …..
Money Politics was once a phrase adopted by frustrated Malaysians sickened by graft, backhanders, bribery and all the rest. Now, ever more clearly, a British version of the problem has started to emerge and it often starts with donations of foreign money with a murky past.....
The UK media regulator OFCOM's rules preclude the awarding of broadcast TV licences to any entity that holds a party political or public policy agenda. But it appears that is exactly what has been allowed to happen after the recent takeover of GB News....
The mentor and patron behind Nadhim Zahawi's early political career was disgraced Lord Archer whose record is dogged by controversies. One of these was the Anglia TV share scandal where Zahawi's brother in law and close colleague on Archer's campaigns, Broosk Saib, acted as proxy on what appeared as insider trading but was never prosecuted....
As HMRC boss says there are "no penalties for innocent errors" Sarawak Report learns the reported NCA investigation was closed the day Zawahi became chancellor. Were the millions earned by his Kurdish family company from Western financed reconstruction projects part of that investigation and did money pass to his London property portfolio?.....
After a fractious trial not only have the Swiss prosecutors demanded the maximum sentence be passed on the two PetroSaudi directors but they want them locked up immediately on the grounds they are a flight risk!.....
"It was our money. If the Saudi government wanted to do it this way, so be it." Obaid stuns the Swiss court with his claim that it was Saudi Arabia that had sanctioned Jho Low's $150 million in kickbacks which were paid to him by Good Star Limited out of stolen 1MDB money.....
The PetroSaudi boss and alleged mega-fraudster, Tarek Obaid, spent last week arguing in the Swiss Court that he needed protection from Saudi Arabia. A rebuttal by the court has undermined his story....
It would appear that the alleged Saudi fraudster and money launderer, Tarek Obaid, was in fact some sort of Gulf version of 007: a secret agent acting on the direct instructions of the former King of Saudi Arabia.....
For a mere 5% levy to the state and its people the timber giant Samling plans to convert poorly producing licensed plantation areas into a 'profit for doing nothing' carbon credit scheme. The GPS government has also offered the company a 30 year extension to just 'sit back and earn'. How come?.....
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