Editor confessing to Sarawak Report’s 1MDB document forgery never worked for site, says founder - The Malaysian Insider

17.7.15

Editor confessing to Sarawak Report’s 1MDB document forgery never worked for site, says founder - The Malaysian Insider: When asked to comment on Rahman's claim, Rewcastle-Brown told The Malaysian Insider that Ramesh Rao is believed to have met Melanyi and made a video of his supposed "confession”.

In the video, he claimed that Sarawak Report and Malaysian opposition leaders worked together to forge documents about 1MDB before the website published its exposes on the debt-laden fund.

But Melanyi had never written a "single word" for the site, Rewcastle-Brown said, despite claims by Rahman that the former had been an editor there.

Melanyi is in fact a former editor of Sarawak Tribune, a Bornean newspaper which had been suspended after it published controversial cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in 2006, she said, and he had resigned from the paper over those cartoons.