1MDB whistleblower Justo tells experience in new book

 

Former Petrosaudi executive Xavier Justo says what his family had to suffer ‘still seems stranger than fiction’.

PETALING JAYA: Further details of the 1MDB case could soon come to light as a whistleblower shares his experience throughout the saga, which resulted in one of the world’s largest financial scandals involving corruption, money laundering and abuse of power.

With the release of the book “Rendezvous with Injustice: How a family survived hell after blowing the whistle on the 1MDB financial scandal”, former Petrosaudi executive Xavier Justo and his wife Laura detail their personal experiences throughout the saga.

“Part of our motivation for writing this book is that justice has not been served and we believe lawyers acting for some of the accused are now playing for time.

“It’s vitally important that the world doesn’t simply move on because other financial scandals are in the news.

“What my family had to suffer after we lifted the lid on the embezzlement of billions of dollars from Malaysia still seems stranger than fiction,” Justo said in a statement today.

Justo left PetroSaudi International in 2011, two years after the company received US$1 billion from its now infamous joint-venture with 1MDB.

When he left, according to one report, he did so with a cache of emails that he said he took along as “insurance”.

He eventually passed the information in the e-mails to Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle Brown and a Malaysian media owner after Petrosaudi failed to pay US$2 million in arrears that he said he was owed.

Justo was jailed in Thailand in August 2015 after he reportedly confessed to blackmail charges brought against him by Petrosaudi. The alleged crime was supposed to have taken place in 2013.

He claimed he made the confession under duress.

Justo said he hoped the book would serve as a cautionary tale in what he described as a “shameful episode in human affairs”.

In the book’s foreword, former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Justo’s experience could serve as a lesson for those who cared about fighting corruption.

“Justo suffered while the real perpetrators walked freely along the corridors of power, unashamed and confident that their crimes would go unpunished,” he said.

More information about the book may be found at https://rendezvouswithinjustice.com/. - FMT