Members of Pertubuhan Minda dan Sosial Prihatin hold a banner to protest against whistleblower site Sarawak Report outside the British High Commission near Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, today. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim, July 24, 2015.Little-known non-governmental organisation leader Ramesh Rao Krishnan Naidu, who came into the spotlight recently for lodging a police report against whistleblower site Sarawak Report, was conspicuously absent from the protest he organised today outside the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur against the founder of the UK-based website.
Ramesh Rao had accused Sarawak Report for tampering with 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) documents that were used in the website's exposes on the debt-ridden state investment firm.
Only five people from his group, Pertubuhan Minda dan Sosial Prihatin (PMSP), turned up today outside the high commission to hand over a memorandum against Sarawak Report founder Clare Rewcastle-Brown.
The memorandum questioned if Rewcastle-Brown was trying to "colonialise" Malaysia again by meddling in Malaysian affairs despite being a British citizen.
The group was led by Mohd Faizan Alias, who is the group’s Bumiputera affairs chief.
Ramesh Rao admitted to being behind the videos of former Sarawakian journalist Lester Melanyi's video "confession" regarding the tampering of documents on 1MDB.
He attracted further controversy yesterday when it was revealed that he had been declared a bankrupt by the Insolvency Department, to which he admitted, but said this was proof he was not being paid for his expose.
Melanyi's credibility has also been questioned, as his claims to have worked for Sarawak Report were denied by Rewcastle-Brown.
A video footage of a person Melanyi claimed was the web graphic expert who tampered with the documents for Sarawak Report also ended up to be wrong and was in fact the photo of a UK railroad manager.
Sarawak Report was blocked by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission just a few days after Melanyi's video. – July 24, 2015.
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