The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of the 1MDB Exposé by Clare Rewcastle Brown 5 Nov 2018

Описание: Corruption allegations are central to explaining the demise of the Najib government, resulting in the first change of government since Malaysia’s independence in 1957. In this seminar, Clare Rewcastle Brown draws on her new book, The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of the 1MDB Exposé, to analyse these allegations.
Clare Rewcastle Brown is a former British television reporter and the founder and editor of the website Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak, which came to prominence for challenging wide scale political corruption in Malaysia and the impacts on civil and indigenous rights and the environment. Her investigations resulted in the exposure of the 1MDB Development Fund scandal, which revealed alleged grand kleptocracy by the Malaysian Prime
Minister; rocked the global financial community; helped put the off-shore finance industry on the run and embarrassed some of the most famous figures in Hollywood, Vegas and New York.
Fortune Magazine named Rewcastle Brown one of the World’s 50 Most Influential Figures in 2016; she was named one of Britain’s Women of the Year 2016. In 2018 she received the Guardian Award by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. In 2013 she received the International Press Institute’s Pioneer of Media Freedom Award; in 2014 she received Queensland University’s Communication for Social Change Award and she was winner of
the One World Media Special Award from CNN in 2015. Malaysian authorities issued a warrant for her arrest and requested INTERPOL place her on its international Red Notice list in 2015. However, INTERPOL rejected the request and following the defeat of Najib in the May 9th 2018 election Malaysia rescinded the warrant.