Paperback: The Sarawak Report (2018) is the stranger-than-fiction tale of how one woman uncovered the world's biggest theft which, in 2018, brought down the Malaysian government.
Investigating the deforestation of Sarawak, Borneo, and the dispossession of its people, journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown followed a trail of corruption that led her to the heart of Malaysian politics and to Prime Minister Najib Razak himself.
Determined that the public should know the truth, she started a blog, which became Malaysia's go-to news outlet for information that the government was trying to suppress - and whistleblowers wanted to get out. She was soon running a radio station too.
To nail down absolute proof, Rewcastle Brown criss-crossed the globe and, defying danger, pieced together the evidence of the 1MDB scandal - the theft of billions from the country's sovereign wealth fund.
Her reporting - exposing the shady dealings of international politicians, finance powerhouses, prominent PR firms and Hollywood glitterati - convulsed Malaysian politics and reverberated around the world. The US government made its largest ever kleptocracy asset seizure, while banks and bankers fell.
Sweeping in scope, The Sarawak Report provides a jaw-dropping behind-the-scenes narrative of Malaysia's recent turbulent political struggles, revealing, as never before, how government-funded cyber-warfare and fake news operate, and in an era of threadbare mainstream media, demonstrating that epoch-changing investigative journalism is still possible.
The Sarawak Report is an urgent account of the reality of globalisation - and the astonishing story of how one person made a difference.
"The Sarawak Report is not just a morality tale about corruption in high places. It is a morality tale about how the economic jungle of modern globalisation costs ordinary citizens. At last, thanks to Clare's detailed research, the truth is coming out." - The Right Honourable Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
About the author: Clare Rewcastle Brown is a British investigative journalist. Born in the former British Crown Colony of Sarawak (now part of Malaysia), she is the founder of The Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak which are openly critical of the Barisan Nasional-led state government of Sarawak. Her work in Radio Free Sarawak won her the One World Media Special Award from CNN in 2015. These days, she writes about Malaysia and global corruption.
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