It was headlined "I was offered $2.7m for stolen data: Ex-PetroSaudi employee Xavier Andre Justo on the 1MDB saga". Newspapers and TV stations in Malaysia, where the government had just clamped down on an investigation into 1MDB, happily reproduced the ST report to support Najib’s narrative. I had also asked about the “hidden hand” behind the ST story and the interview with Justo. ST’s foreign news editor Audrey Quek issued a statement to deny that any hidden hands were involved. I suggested that the ST bosses find out more from Nirmal about the people who arranged the interview with Justo.

Source: The Edge Markets May 25, 2018 13:41 UTC