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Malaysia's UMNO Goes After A Critic

Malaysia's UMNO Goes After A Critic

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Sep 07, 2012
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In November of 2009, Suaram, the Kuala Lumpur-based human rights NGO, asked a French investigative law firm to look into what appeared to be huge bribes and kickbacks paid to Malaysian politicians by the French state-owned defense company DCN and its subsidiaries for the 2002 purchase of two submarines and the lease of a third.

The story was complicated …

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