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SARAWAK REPORT COVERUPS

4 min readSep 3, 2015

Who’s Who of Clare Brown

CONTINUED FROM PART I

CULLEN JOHNSON

THE first character that came to light was Cullen Johnson, whom we introduced in “Secrets of Sarawak Report — The Beginning of the End”. He and his wife-accomplice were both arrested in 2013, while on the run on the Carribean Island of the Turks and Caicos, during which time, Clare Rewcastle Brown was in touch with at least one of them.

“Emails intercepted by the IRS also helped the case. In an affidavit filed by special agent Brian Pelfrey, he describes how the emails, obtained using a search warrant, showed that Johnson, White and Grontis were discussing the “preparation” of the banking reports.”
(‘Island-hopping private eyes indicted on fraud, money laundering charges.’ — Ontario Star, April 12, 2013)

“They concocted bogus and stunningly realistic international banking information that would lead one party to believe the other had millions of dollars in assets offshore in places like the Channel Islands or the Cayman Islands. Over a period of time, the detectives would charge increasingly higher feesin return for more “banking information.” Often that information was presented in court as real and it took lawyers and judges years to understand it was false.”
(‘Ontario detectives Cullen Johnson and Elaine White jailed in the U.S.’ — Ontario Star, January 17, 2014)

On two different occasions, Clare took time to explain — vaguely, but lengthily — the nature of her relationship with Mr Johnson. For the purpose of research and in the interest of space conservation, note that deflections and speculations are reduced to fine print, although they would still be readable.

Important dates are also marked in orange [Blog].

“Mr Pitt first contacted Sarawak Report’s Editor via a text to their [sic.] hand phone. It is relevant to mention that this handphone number was handed to the Sarawak police back in 2009 after an arrest at an armed road blockade.
“It is equally relevant that on every occasion on which this handphone has subsequently been entered into Malaysia, it has been disabled after passing through airport immigration (where the Editor of Sarawak Report has always been questioned).
“Mr Dirk Pitt/Cullen Johnson purported to have information on the Taib family’s global wealth. However, disappointingly Mr Pitt/Cullen Johnson only produced information which he was unable to substantiate, either with documentation or corroborative facts.
“Worse, he encouraged us to pay him in order to obtain what he suggested might be illegally accessed information. So, we explained that this is not our method of working.
“Communications ceased.”
(‘Hacked Off!’ — Sarawak Report, May 8, 2013)

Note the discrepancy with the following explanation two years later, marked in red letters [Blog].

“In 2012 Johnson contacted Sarawak Report some time before the general election [sic.], purporting that he had accessed bank account information about Abu Bekir.
“For several months this fellow continued to contact Sarawak Report, having mysteriously gained access to a private mobile number, which the Sarawak authorities had also obtained during a visit to the state in 2009.
“For this reason we treated Cullen’s approach as suspicious throughout.
“However, journalists are always willing to listen to people who claim to have information and for several months we engaged with Johnson (mainly via Skype messages) and waited to see where it all might lead.
“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.

[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]

“Here is the full story of what happened and readers should indeed prepare for a truly ugly tale, involving theft, hacking, dirty PR and smear tactics.
“It all began when shortly before the general election in 2013 my mobile phone was pickpocketed at night in my home street in London.
On this phone were my skype and gmail messages.”
(‘A Truly Ugly Story — Theft, Hacking and Smear Tactics.’ — Sarawak Report, January 10, 2015)

During these tirades of counterattacks against her critics whom at the time Sarawak Report prefers to brand as ‘Taib henchmen’ — these days it seems that Tun Taib has forgiven her, if her stories were to be believed in the first place, as it is now only ‘Najib henchmen’ who are after her — Clare’s explanations, although vague, was still believable back then due to the lack of further evidence. Her innocence would have remained unblemished, and everyone should just sit back in the comfort of knowing that everything that Clare Rewcastle Brown has been saying was, is, and will always remain true. Then, things started to change.

CONTINUES IN PART III