CURRENT / THE JUSTO CONFESSION ON THE STRAITS TIMES OF SINGAPORE
REPRODUCED BELOW IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE SINGAPORE STRAITS TIMES ARTICLE IN REFERENCE TO PERTINENT SECTIONS FILTERED TO BRING FOCUS ONTO THE ACTUAL CONFESSION AND IMMEDIATE RESPONSES.
THE JUSTO CONFESSION
on the Straits Times of Singapore, July 24, 2015
XAVIER ANDRE JUSTO
“I tried to open an account in Singapore, to have the money paid directly from (the buyer’s) account,
“DBS Bank refused, I don’t know why. After that I opened an account in Abu Dhabi in my own personal name which was refused by (the buyer) because it had my name on it.
“Then I tried to use my company account in Hong Kong and he said the same, after that it was through a Luxembourg company and then again (the buyer) refused and after that Clare Brown took the lead,
“[The buyer also] offered to pay me by cash. “So I was supposed to go to Singapore every week or every other week to receive an envelope with a few thousand or tens of thousands, and repeat this process for months until the final amount will have been paid. And again I refused.
“All of what is written in my confession, most of it is proven by e-mail conversations, WhatsApp messages I have had with (them).
“[Ms Rewcastle-Brown had agreed to receive the US$2 million from the buyer and send {me} US$250,000 a month for consultancy services.]
“I don’t know if she received the money or not, (because) I was arrested,
“I have no idea.
[RELATED: CURRENT / JUSTO AND THE EDGE MEDIA GROUP — “Yes, we misled him. But that was the only way to get hold of the evidence to expose how a small group of Malaysians and foreigners cheated the people of Malaysia of US$1.83 billion (S$2.5 billion).” — Datuk Tong Kooi Ong and Ho Kay Tat, July 24, 2015]
[RELATED: BREAKING / BUSINESSMAN AT CENTER OF MAJOR MALAYSIAN CORRUPTION SCANDAL IS JAILED IN THAILAND “I did pursue him doggedly to get the material. In the end he surrendered it for free.” — Clare Rewcastle Brown, August 17, 2015]
[RELATED: BREAKING / SWISS NATIONAL GIVEN 3-YEAR JAIL TERM FOR 1MDB-LINKED BLACKMAIL — “A report published last month in Singaporean daily the Straits Times claimed that Justo had affirmed that the businessman and Clare Rewcastle-Brown, the editor of the Sarawak report, wanted to use the data to “bring down the Malaysian government.” He also said that his interlocutors had evoked the possibility of “modifying the documents”, which Rewcastle-Brown has denied. The country’s anti-corruption agency later said the $700 million was donations, effectively clearing Razak of wrongdoing.” — FultonCounty.COM, August 17, 2015]
[RELATED: FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN’S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY’S LEGAL CODES -”2–Fraud by false representation; (2)A representation is false if — (b)the person making it knows that it is,or might be,untrue or misleading.” — UK FRAUD ACT 2006, August 16, 2015]
[RELATED: EPISODES / DRAMATIS PERSONÆ — WHO’S WHO OF CLARE BROWN — “Therefore, it was only after strikingly similar financial information was submitted in a court hearing related to Abu Bekir’s divorce and then printed in all the Malaysian media, that we too subsequently quoted what the Malaysian media reported had been said in court.” — Clare Rewcastle Brown, January 10, 2015]
[RELATED: CURRENT / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN’S INTERVIEW ON CHANNEL NEWSASIA REGARDING THE WARRANT FOR HER ARREST — “The Prime Minister has now finally had it announced through the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission that that was not anything to do with 1MDB money, which actually certainly I and I don’t know of any investigative reporters who said it was.” — Clare Rewcastle Brown, August 5, 2015]
[RELATED: SENSATIONAL FINDINGS! PRIME MINISTER NAJIB RAZAK’S PERSONAL ACCOUNTS LINKED TO 1MDB MONEY TRAIL — MALAYSIA EXCLUSIVE — Sarawak Report, July 2, 2015]
[RELATED: FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN’S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY’S LEGAL CODES -”11 Obtaining services dishonestly. (2) A person obtains services in breach of this subsection if– (a) they are made available on the basis that the payment has been, is being, or will be made for or in respect of them, (b) he obtains them without any payment having been made for or in respect of them or without payment having been made in full, and (c) when he obtains them, he knows– (i) that they are being made available on the basis described in paragraph (a), or (ii) that they might be, but intends that payment will not be made, or will not be made in full.” — UK FRAUD ACT 2006, August 16, 2015]
“[The group {I} had met in Singapore — including Ms Rewcastle-Brown — had tampered with the data {I} had given them.]
“I gave the original documents without any kind of alteration,
“I can say that I gave those documents to two groups of people, [one was Ms Rewcastle-Brown and “her IT guy” and the other was the Malaysian businessman and his colleague.]
“[Those {I} met had talked about using the documents] to try to bring down the Malaysian government.
“[They also referred to plans to] modify the documents.
“[{I}…admitted that {I} had stolen company data — some 90 gigabytes worth — when {I} left in 2011.
“{I} asked PetroSaudi for more money in 2013 but it turned {me} down. Subsequently, through a contact in Geneva with connections in Malaysia, {I} was introduced to Ms Clare Rewcastle-Brown, whom {I} later met in Bangkok at the Plaza Athenee hotel [sic.] and in Singapore at the Fullerton Hotel. In Singapore, she was accompanied by the others named in {my} confession.]“[{My confession} had not been made under duress, and that {I} had been pleasantly surprised at how well {I} had been treated in the Bangkok prison.]”
- Xavier Andre Justo, ex-PetroSaudi International Director — International ‘Person-of-Interest’, July 24, 2015
RELATED: CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN’S RESPONSE TO THE JUSTO CONFESSION
“Bunkum.
“What I have presented on 1MDB and has been clarified by The Edge and corroborated by several other official sources is a coherent explanation of events, versus the dodging, changing stories of 1MDB.
[RELATED: CURRENT / THE JUSTO CONFESSION ON THE STRAITS TIMES OF SINGAPORE — “{Ms Rewcastle-Brown had agreed to receive the US$2 million from the buyer and send {me} US$250,000 a month for consultancy services.}I don’t know if she received the money or not, (because) I was arrested…I have no idea.” — Xavier Andre Justo, July 24, 2015]
[RELATED: CURRENT / JUSTO AND THE EDGE MEDIA GROUP — “Yes, we misled him. But that was the only way to get hold of the evidence to expose how a small group of Malaysians and foreigners cheated the people of Malaysia of US$1.83 billion (S$2.5 billion).” — Datuk Tong Kooi Ong and Ho Kay Tat, July 24, 2015]
“[Justo was] full of untruths.
“Why would I wish to alter anything? If I had, why haven’t 1MDB and PetroSaudi brought out the evidence of such altering in all of the last five or so months?”
- Clare Rewcastle Brown, Founder-Editor of Sarawak Report, July 24, 2015
[RELATED: FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN’S IGNORANCE OF HER OWN COUNTRY’S LEGAL CODES -”11 Obtaining services dishonestly. (2) A person obtains services in breach of this subsection if– (a) they are made available on the basis that the payment has been, is being, or will be made for or in respect of them, (b) he obtains them without any payment having been made for or in respect of them or without payment having been made in full, and (c) when he obtains them, he knows– (i) that they are being made available on the basis described in paragraph (a), or (ii) that they might be, but intends that payment will not be made, or will not be made in full.” — UK FRAUD ACT 2006, August 16, 2015]
[RELATED: BREAKING / BUSINESSMAN AT CENTER OF MAJOR MALAYSIAN CORRUPTION SCANDAL IS JAILED IN THAILAND “I did pursue him doggedly to get the material. In the end he surrendered it for free.” — Clare Rewcastle Brown, August 17, 2015]
RELATED: THE EDGE MALAYSIA CEO MR HO KAY TAT’S RESPONSE TO THE JUSTO CONFESSION
“[The newspaper had] a public duty to find and report the truth.
“We were not involved in any theft, we did not pay anyone, and we did not tamper (with) any of the e-mails and documents we were given,
“[The newspaper was handing over to Malaysian government investigators printed documents and the hard disk that contains bank transfers and statements linked to the 1MDB scandal .]”
- Mr Ho Kay Tat, CEO of The Edge Malaysia, July 24, 2015
(‘I was offered $2.7m for stolen data: Ex-PetroSaudi employee Xavier Andre Justo on the 1MDB saga.’ — The Straits Times, July 24, 2015)
The NINE QUESTIONS Blog will return with more facts.
Originally published at ninequestionsforsarawakreport.blogspot.com on August 16, 2015.
