Najib can’t sue because he will lose, claims Rewcastle

Sarawak Report editor says not a single judge or jury anywhere else in the world will believe prime minister's claims.

PETALING JAYA: Sarawak Report’s editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown has claimed that Najib Razak had been unable to sue over reports of his alleged involvement in misappropriation of 1MDB funds because he knew he would lose in any court outside Malaysia.
Speaking to FMT today, Rewcastle alleged that the prime minister would never be able to sway an independent jury against news reports that implicated him in the affairs of 1Malaysia Development Bhd.
Opposition politicians have clamoured for Najib to file suit against the Wall Street Journal and Sarawak Report after they published reports on a trail of financial transactions leading to a deposit of US$600 million in his personal bank accounts in 2013.
Najib has denied that the money came from 1MDB, a government-owned investment company, and has said it was a personal donation from a member of the Saudi royal family. The Federal Government has said that most of the money had been returned.
The issue has also been covered by the BBC and CNN, Bloomberg and the New York Times amongst others. The Federal Government has maintained that the reports of 1MDB’s involvement were untrue, and has since blocked Internet access to Sarawak Report, Asia Sentinel and the Malaysian Insider for reporting on a criminal charge that had purportedly been prepared against Najib.
Last year, Sarawak Report, Rewcastle, the Malaysian Insider’s publisher and owner, and DAP politician Tony Pua were implicated in negotiations to buy confidential emails and documents stolen by a former executive of a Saudi company associated with 1MDB.
The government has accused Rewcastle and Sarawak Report of being part of a conspiracy to topple Najib and his government, and news reports quoted the executive, Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo, as having alleged that Rewcastle had told him that “bringing down Najib would be payment enough”.
Sarawak Report has quoted extensively from leaked emails and correspondence.
Rewcastle maintained that Sarawak Report articles were correct, and that Najib “has had to admit that he took the money” in the face of the reports. “He first denied it but then admitted he took the money, then he’s come up with all sorts of different excuses as to why he took the money. And finally, he claimed to have given it back,” she said.
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