MALAYSIAN police are free to see her in the UK if they wish to speak to her, Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown told Malaysiakini today.

Rewcastle-Brown said she would be happy to answer any of the Malaysian police’s queries should Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar send his men to meet her in the UK.

“I believe the detectives of Bukit Aman will not be too hard pressed to find ways to get in touch should they desire to do so,” she said.

Khalid today “invited” Rewcastle-Brown to Malaysia to assist in investigations into the whistleblower’s site’s allegation that Prime Minister Najib Razak had paid lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah a total of RM9.5 million in 2013 and 2014.

Shafee was the lead prosecutor appointed by the Malaysian government to act in opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s second sodomy trial. 

Sarawak Report, in an article on May 31, said the money came from the bank account “that had been identified as having been funded by money stolen by the Prime Minister from the 1MDB subsidiary SRC, which had borrowed some RM4 billion from the civil service pension fund (Retirement Fund Inc) KWAP”.

Sarawak Report said the second payment of RM5.2 million Shafee allegedly received in February 2014 came just a fortnight before the Appeal Court overturned the acquittal of Anwar.

Pakatan Harapan parties have lodged several police reports to push for a probe into the claims.

Rewcastle-Brown said she would be glad to accept Khalid’s invitation to visit, except there was an arrest warrant for her in Malaysia due to her alleged involvement in “activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy” and “spreading false news”.

She was referring to the arrest warrant issued in August 2015 for offences under Section 124B and 124I of the Penal code.

Malaysian police have also said they wished to have the editor placed on the Aseanpol wanted list, and would also be applying for an Interpol Red Notice to seek her arrest and extradition.

Rewcastle-Brown claimed that the IGP, who was in the high-level, special task force probing the 1Malaysia Development Bhd scandal linked to Najib, had seen the same documents she did.

“I have to say that there is in reality nothing I can supply the IGP that he has not already been made privy to.

“These documents must surely have crossed his desk and he must still have copies despite the decision… to close the investigations,” she was quoted as saying.

Najib and Shafee have yet to respond to the Sarawak Report article. – June 8, 2017.