20 Apr 2024, 08:24 Kuching
20 Apr 2024, 01:24 London
Come on AWSJ, you can do better than that. I sure hope AWSJ was not using malicious and tampered documents in their report.
“Quoting ‘unnamed investigator’ as a basis of a very defamatory report, AWSJ has sunk to the level of gutter journalism of ‘Sarawak Report’. If they were dead serious about the authenticity, the reports should have named the sources,” he tweeted.
This was later followed by Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin who in an interview with national news agency Bernamasaid the allegation made against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak by WSJ could not be accepted as it was not supported by strong evidence.
Another Umno member, Domestic Trade, Cooperation and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Hasan Malek sang the same chorus, saying that the report was unverified, and that all questions must first be referred to the Finance Ministry.
“We must not trust something that is not verified as it is not healthy. If it is not verified, then there is no need for me to give a comment.”
Well, these cheerleaders have to try and find something to say in the face of glaring evidence and the failure of a single bank in the trail to come out to deny the transactions.
Wells Fargo, Falcon Bank, AmBank, Bank Negara, Bank of New York… all silent. Compare how BSI Bank were willing to rapidly deny false statements which had been produced by 1MDB.
As for the “gutter journalism” of Sarawak Report and WSJ for not naming their sources – again why the double standard?
Did these mouthpieces complain when the New Straits Times allegedly quoted an unnamed spokesman at the company PGI, who claimed Sarawak Report was using “tampered” documents – an allegation that was based on no evidence at all?
No, they immediately chorused that this anonymous and unsubstantiated claim “proved” that 1MDB had no case to answer and that Sarawak Report was printing nothing but lies.
PGI have subsequently refused all requests by journalists to confirm these “quotes” attributed to them. Why suddenly so shy?
Time will soon reveal the genuine “gutter journalists” in this affair.
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