The Dust yet to settle for Sarawak Report!

By David Callahan

Sarawak Report’s (SR) latest revelation of AG’s executive summary on 1MDB’s mismanagement shows its contempt over PAC’s final report on 1MDB’s probe. The vindictive news portal spearheaded by its editor- in- chief Clare Rewcastle-Brown- based in UK. She failed to learn her lesson even after BN’s land-slide victory in the Sarawak’s State Poll and the twin by-elections in Selangor thereafter.

Sarawak Report’s unethical report

As a professional news portal, SR should have published its fair opinion based on the more reliable PAC report, which was made available for the public after a careful study being done by each member of PAC – comprised of members of both political divide. Said that, it is totally unethical for the news portal to simply write its report based on the Auditor General’s report, which is a classified document meant for assisting PAC’s probe on 1MDB. Therefore, its crystal clear that the Auditor General’s report is not the final result of PAC’s Probe on 1MDB.

SR’s unethical way of reporting is not new among the netizens. Previously the UK-based online news portal’s target was Sarawak’s former Chief Minister, Tun Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud. Back then, SR’s prime motive was to bring down the BN government in Sarawak and let Parti Keadilan’s Baru Bian to take over. However the news portal failed to bring down the seasoned politician. Despite heavily smeared by SR, the then CM stepped down on his own will.

Anti- Najib Campaign

After the miserable failure, Rewcastle decided to join the Anti- Najib Campaign. Ever since, RS started to write false reports against the PM- hoping to oust him and eventually topple the BN lead- government. This is also regarded as SR’s desperate strategy since she failed to find any serious flaws in the newly minted Sarawak Chief Minister, Tan Sri Adenan Satem’s administration. So, her only way to change the Sarawak’s state government is via toppling the federal government.

As the Malaysians well aware, previously, beside heavily sponsored by a number of organizations in UK, Rewcastle offered her service to Anwar Ibrahim to write against the former CM of Sarawak for money. And now she is doing the same by joining the Anti Najib Camp lead by the former Prime Minister turned rogue Tun Dr Mahathir.

 Misleading reports on Najib and 1MDB

In January 2016, SR had published a flawed report against Najib titled: “Najib Negotiates His Exit But He Wants Safe Passage And All the Money! Exclusive Disclosure!”- which failed to see Najib being toppled. Adding to this, the RS also found deliberately misreported the donation amount by the Saudi Royals to Najib. But the mismatch between the donation amount reported by RS and the alleged donation simply proved that the RM2.6 billion allegation against Najib is a lie.

The public advised to not to believe

So, it can be concluded that Rewcastle’s fresh effort to bring down the BN-lead federal government via its latest so- called revelation of the Auditor General’s Report on 1MDB will again fade sooner or later. Probably this piece of news will caught the attention of few but won’t last for even a week. However, the members of public advised to not to easily hoodwinked by the unreliable reports by a few online news portals making millions at the expense of emerging nations.