Sarawak Report timeline

2010 February

Sarawak Report (SR) founded by Sarawak-born investigative journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown

November

Sister organisation Radio Free Sarawak starts broadcasting, opposes rule of then Sarawak

Chief

Minister Tan

Sri Abdul

Taib Mahmud

2012

SR goes after Sabah Chief Minister Tan Sri Musa Aman, for alleged involvement in a timber kickback scandal

2013 July

Rewcastle Brown barred from entering Sarawak, and sent back to Singapore

December

SR exposes Riza Aziz, Datin Seri Rosman Mansor’s son, over the alleged use of Malaysian money in The Wolf of Wall Street movie

2015 July

SR publishes report on how investigations into 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) have allegedly uncovered billions of ringgit funnelled into Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s personal accounts

Ex-journalist Lester Melanyi accuses SR of forging documents in 1MDB expose

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission blocks access to SR on grounds that it undermined national stability

August

Bukit Aman issues arrest warrant for Rewcastle Brown for allegedly committing offences detrimental to parliamentary democracy, and spreading false reports and statements to cause public alarm

2016 September

SR publishes report with wife of Swiss national and former PetroSaudi International executive Xavier Justo

2018 April

SR publishes report mentioning local “widespread belief” that Najib has allegedly been financing PAS as part of a strategy to break the opposition alliance against Umno

May

Arrest warrant reportedly revoked, MCMC unblocks SR.