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UMNO Uses Whistleblower Arrest to Defend 1MDB

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John Berthelsen
Jun 27, 2015
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Malaysia’s political establishment is using the arrest of Xavier Justo in Thailand to try to derail questions over the ill-starred 1Malaysia Development Bhd Fund that go far beyond whether the whistle-blowing Swiss national did or did not steal and doctor documents and pass them to Sarawak Report, a critical blog run by a British reporter.

The United Mal…

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