Defiant Sarawak Report remains unfazed

PETALING JAYA: Sarawak Report (SR) is unfazed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission’s (MCMC) move to block access to its website in Malaysia.

SR said in a statement that it will not be impeded in any way in bringing out future information as and when its investigations deliver further evidence.

“This is a blatant attempt to censor our exposures of major corruption through 1MDB, including information that nearly US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) of 1MDB- related money was paid into Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak’s personal AmBank account in Kuala Lumpur just before the last (general) election,” it alleged.

The whistleblower website said the information has already long been disseminated and backed up by other major global news organisations.

“We can only assume that MCMC is fearful that we are about to bring out further revelations,” it added.

MCMC said in a statement on Sunday that it had blocked SR’s website as it posed a threat to national security.

It added that the action was taken after it received public complaints that the website’s reports were not verified.

SR alleged that until now, no one in the Malaysian government has the guts to formally take the website to task over any factual detail of its revelations or to initiate legal proceedings.

“This is because our information is easily proven and substantiated by a mass of corroborative factual evidence.”

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