The Sarawak Report : The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose
The Sarawak Report is the stranger-than-fiction tale of how one womanuncovered the world’s biggest theft which, in 2018, brought down theMalaysian government.Investigating the deforestation of Sarawak, Borneo, and the dispossession ofits people, journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown followed a trail of corruptionthat led her to the heart of Malaysian politics and to Prime MinisterNajib Razak himself. Determined that the public should know the truth,she started a blog, which became Malaysia’s go-to news outlet for informationthat the government was trying to suppress – and whistleblowers wanted toget out. She was soon running a radio station too.To nail down absolute proof, Rewcastle Brown criss-crossed the globeand, defying danger, pieced together the evidence of the 1MDB scandal –the theft of billions from the country’s sovereign wealth fund. Her reporting –exposing the shady dealings of international politicians, finance powerhouses,prominent PR firms, and Hollywood glitterati – convulsed Malaysian politicsand reverberated around the world.
Product details
- Paperback | 564 pages
- 152 x 229 x 35mm | 821g
- 10 Sep 2018
- Lost World Press
- United Kingdom
- English
- 17 colour photographs, 1 black and white photograph, 1 colour chart, 1 black and white cartoon, 1 black and white map
- 1527219364
- 9781527219366
