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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Thai cop: Justo ‘met Clare three times’

Meetings held in Thailand and Singapore for negotiations on leaked 1MDB info
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KUALA LUMPUR: Thai police said three meetings were held between former PetroSaudi executive Xavier Justo and a woman believed to be Clare Rewcastle Brown of Sarawak Report on leaked information from 1Malaysia Development Bhd, according to media reports.
The Nation newspaper in Bangkok said today that Justo, a Swiss national under arrest here on blackmail charges, had met the woman for negotiations on the purchase of information and data.
The police did not identify Rewcastle-Brown and Sarawak Report by name.
The newspaper said Thai police spokesman Lt-Gen Prawut Thavornsiri had told The Straits Times in Singapore that Justo had met “a Malaysian-born female news blogger who had moved to Britain”.
Prawut said Justo met the woman three times in Thailand, and also in Singapore, for “negotiation”, the report said.
Asked if the woman’s blog was the Sarawak Report website, he said: “Maybe. I didn’t name it, you named it. The website tampered with the data to discredit the [Malaysian] PM.”
However, his description fits that of Sarawak-born Rewcastle Brown, who runs the Sarawak Report news blog that has reported extensively on 1Malaysia Development Bhd’s controversial and dubious financial transactions and investments. PetroSaudi was a partner in a joint venture that was later aborted.
1MDB, a government-owned strategic investment company, is reported to have debts of RM42 billion. Last week, the Wall Street Journal and Sarawak Report reported on a trail of financial transactions that ended in deposits of US$900 million (about RM2.8 billion) in bank accounts under the name of Najib Razak, the prime minister.
The Nation said Prawut had based his information on Justo’s confession, who he said had admitted to everything and surrendered a document, even records from his phone. It is believed to include a full transcript of all the WhatsApp chats he had with a group of 10 Malaysians who he had during negotiations and discussions on how he would be paid.
Justo had worked for PetroSaudi from 2010 to 2011 and the chief executive officer was said to be Justo’s close friend. Justo walked out and the company paid him about 4 million Swiss francs (Bt140 million).
Prawut said Justo called the CEO after two years and asked for more money. Before he left, he had copied every e-mail of the company from the server. “It was in 2013 that he called the company and said I know all your secrets and I want US$2.5million. When the firm turned down his demand, Justo approached the other group,” Prawut said.
“This case should be reported in Singapore because the money-laundering to attack the PM started in Singapore,” Prawut said. “If the Singapore police ask me for evidence [through] the foreign affairs protocol, I can send it,” he was quoted as saying.

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