More 1MDB secrets to emerge from Hong Kong, Singapore, says journalist Rewcastle Brown
- The investigative journalist, whose blog The Sarawak Report fuelled corruption allegations against Malaysia’s disgraced prime minister Najib Razak, has just released a book on the 1MDB saga
Rewcastle, whose blog The Sarawak Report fuelled corruption allegations against Najib and his associates – leading to his electoral defeat in May this year – was in Hong Kong on Wednesday to publicise her new book.
“1MDB is going to rear its head in Hong Kong quite soon. A lot of the money stolen by the former ruling couple of Malaysia ended up here in Hong Kong. I cannot see how the lid is going to be kept on that much longer,” Rewcastle told a lunchtime crowd at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club.
On Wednesday evening, at a gathering organised by the Malaysian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Macau, Rewcastle said she believed secret deals were done in Singapore so the funds Najib had squirrelled away would not be exposed.
“I think there are still secrets to come out of Singapore on 1MDB, and probably Malaysians will want to prise them out,” she said.
