OF media, whistle-blowers and politicians caught in the 1MDB Storm

and it's NOT a STORM IN A TEA CUP!

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Published: Tuesday July 21, 2015 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Tuesday July 21, 2015 MYT 6:55:11 AM

Lester: Website articles very good fiction

by nicholas cheng, neville spykerman, ruben sario, AND austin camoens

KUALA LUMPUR: Sarawak Report allegedly used the expertise of a web designer to fabricate e-mail messages and agreements that were then used in news articles to discredit Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
In Part Two of an apparent video expose by Lester Melanyi, the 49 year-old alleged that the designer was working part time with the Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) and purportedly faked the documents on the instructions of Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown.
In the video, Lester claimed he had contact with the man but said that he did not know how the designer created the fake e-mail messages or which program he used to falsify the documents.
He said Sarawak Report would e-mail him drafts of articles for him to edit before these were posted on its website.

He pointed to two Sarawak Report articles — How Jho Low used PetroSaudi as a front to siphon billions out of 1MDB and Riza and Jho Low face questions over bribery and tax evasion – and called them “very good fiction”.
“It will be a best seller if it can come out in a novel. All being created. All being created”, said the former journalist.
The only input he gave was that he thought a picture used with the second article, which purportedly showed the home of Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s son Riza Shahriz Abdul Aziz, was in fact “not his home”.
Lester said that what was being done by the Sarawak Report was “not right”.
“And I’m going to do this because I know I’m doing the right thing,” he said.
Lester also claimed that BMF, a non-profit conservation group, paid him money which was banked into his account by Rewcastle-Brown, to edit the articles.
He claimed that she also handled all his expenses, even buying plane tickets for him to travel from Kuching to London for work.
The video of him then cuts to a blurry picture of an e-ticket receipt from an airline that was not clear enough to see any of the details.
Lester also reaffirmed that he believed two Opposition leaders were involved in the supposed “Mission to criminialise Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak & 1MDB.”
Lester claimed that one of them contacted him in January to ask whether he was involved in “the 1MDB mission”.
Last night, DAP MP Tony Pua said his lawyers would this week issue a letter of demand against Lester and “anyone who republishes or repeats his utterly baseless accusations”.
“Lester Melanyi will have seven days to retract and apologise for his widely publicised video statement,” he added.
BMF has yet to respond to an e-mail from The Star asking for a comment regarding Lester’s allegations.

DESIDERATA: THE MEDIA, including olde school journalists like DESi and new media bloggers, also like DESi, are now PLAYERS IN the nation's events. THE Trouble is -- many writers maketh such FICTIONAL COPIES TO SELl their wares. OR ART thou sponsored?

TO the above protagonist featuted in the vidoe and given much mileage by the MALaysian MSM, I Ask of (In Part Two of an apparent video expose by) Lester Melanyi,please look into the mirror -- who's trying to create FICTION HERE/hear?
YES, I AGREE wit' you LESTER MELANYI: -- just like FICTION, yours and RPK'S, always able to be LONdon-based among HIGH SOCIETY... WHO'S FUNDING YOU??






TO BE CONTINUED...

Minister should apologise after Melanyi’s 1MDB ‘confession’ debunked, says Rafizi

Published: 21 July 2015 12:56 PM

PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli says Barisan Nasional's strategic communications director Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan should apologise for promoting ‘fake news’. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, July 21, 2015.

LINK1- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/minister-should-apologise-after-melanyis-1mdb-confession-debunked-says-rafi#sthash.4qnkpERu.dpuf

Retract your words or get sued, Pua tells Melanyi

Published: 21 July 2015 12:36 AM

Not wasting time, DAP's Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua plans to sue former Sarawak Tribune editor Lester Melanyi over false statements made against Pua in a 'confession' video, if no retraction and apology is forthcoming within the next 7 days. – The Malaysian Insider pic, July 20, 2015.

*****LINK2- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/retract-your-words-or-get-sued-pua-tells-melanyi#sthash.p6SYH3gv.dpuf

DESIDERATA: THE ARticles of the TWO PROTAGONISTS -- PKR MP RAFIZI RAMLI  and DAP MP TONY PUA -- from the malaysianinsider.com COULD NOT BE REPRODUCED IN FULL, SO I ADVISe my dear ER TO go to the news portal, see ****LINK1 and *****LINK2 (My face, OK!)