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Sarawak Report Stalked And Harassed In

London
20 Jul 2015
Spied on having coee!
http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/07/sarawak-report-stalked-and-harassed-in-london/
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Sarawak Report has filed a report with the Metropolitan Police in London
after establishing proof of wide-ranging harassment by persons believed
to be in the employ of UMNO in Malaysia.
The acts of illegal harassment include teams of stalkers, who have
followed around after the Editor of Sarawak Report in past days, plainly
waiting outside her house and then pursuing her during the day.
These persons have included a bald, muscle-bound middle-aged white
man and a man of Chinese Malaysian appearance, who took photographs
of her in broad daylight in Hyde park and other individuals who have
followed her car.
Other forms of harassment reported are computer hacking, disruption to
the radio programme RFS and what appears to be the bugging of
conversations.
These matters are now being countered and are also being investigated
by a central London police station, who have put a protection detail onto
the case.
Protection Group International and Embassy Staff

Sarawak Report has notified police that the company Protection Group
International (PGI) has been hired to sustain a campaign against
Sarawak Report and it currently is our main suspect behind this
harassment.
Surveillance is one of the key services, which the company run by former
soldiers is able to provide.
However, PGIs Managing Director Cyber and Technology, Mr Brian
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Lord, also trades on his past background as a Deputy Director for

Intelligence and Cyber Operations at the world famous UK listening
centre Cheltenhams GCHQ.
Cyber intelligence Chief at PGI, Brian Lord
It is Mr Lord who has gone on the record falsely alleging tampering by

Sarawak Report in the Malaysian newspaper, the UMNO owned New
Straits Times.
We are concerned at the fact that PGI has being hired by the London
based company PetroSaudi International, which is at the centre of the
current investigations over misappropriated billions from the
development fund 1MDB.
We believe PGI is acting on PetroSaudis behalf to try attempt to discredit
and intimidate Sarawak Report, which broke much of the information
about their confirmed client.
Sarawak Report has firmly denied all Brian Lords allegations of
tampering through our lawyers and has challenged PGI to produce a
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shred of proof for its allegations, which PGI has signally failed to do.
We now demand an assurance that Mr Lords much vaunted cyber
intelligence skills, acquired under the employ of the British government,
are not being misused in an illegal fashion against Sarawak Report and
that any stalking should cease.
The apparent Malaysian nationality of one of the photographers in the
Hyde Park operation has also lead Sarawak Report to cite possible
involvement by Special Branch staff based at Malaysias London High
Commission in this harassment exercise.
Sarawak Report concludes that the purpose of this operation is plainly to
intimidate the newsblog, which has recently revealed information about
missing billions from the development fund 1MDB.
Raja Petra Kamaruddin

The Manchester based blogger known as RPK,
who is now generally accepted as being at the
service of UMNO leader, the PM Najib Razak,
can also now be confirmed as having been
closely linked to what is clearly an
orchestrated intimidation exercise.
RPK was the anticipated

recipient of the information
and receive it he did
We have reported to the police that the

surveillance exercise carried out by these
teams was almost immediately reported by
RPK in his stridently pro-Najib blog Malaysia
Today.
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The Prime Minister, who has been complaining through RPK amongst
others about so-called conspiracies to defame him, therefore himself
stands accused of conspiring to stalk and harass journalists who have
been uncovering corruption in Malaysia.
RPK has not only named the person who met Sarawak Report in the park
that day, he has also attempted to name other people, who are
presumably suspected by his collaborators of being possible informers
(so far entirely wrongly in every case).
RPK has even gone so far as to place ID numbers of people suspected by
this team onto his site, presumably in order to frighten potential sources
of information.
Selecting targets to intimidate through RPKs blog

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Sarawak Report has not met with and does not know the people, who are
being identified in such a sinister and threatening manner.
However, we deplore this disgraceful form of blatant and intimidation.
Caught! The trap that exposed the stalkers

Sarawak Report was able to confirm the suspected stalking last week by
adopting a simple strategy of meeting with a prominent Malaysian in
Londons Hyde Park.
Open ground Hyde Park
The Malaysian, who has a London home, was a social contact, but
emphatically not ever a source of information for this blog.
He is a known pro-UMNO official who was previously a senior law
enforcer before retirement.
Having been introduced once, over a year ago, he agreed to a social
meeting near in a Hyde Park cafe, which was a short walk from his hotel.
This meeting helped Sarawak Report establish the suspected surveillance
was genuine because the public cafe was in isolated open ground.
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Sure enough, at least three surveillance teams were easily spotted in this
open area, desperately trying to follow the journalist and to photograph
the entirely innocent contact.
These teams then followed both Sarawak Report and the person met in
different directions out of the park. The identities of the stalkers have
been captured on CCTV and the matter is being investigated.
Threatening behaviour ends in comedy
photographing through the window here at the Hyde

Park Gallery
One of the stalkers on this occasion, a Malaysian Chinese man, had even
tried to blatantly photograph the Sarawak Report editor and her contact
by filming through the window of the cafe over the shoulders of nearby
tourists.
Comically, the tourists drifted off while the photographer was still
intently trying to photograph the meeting through the window and he
failed to notice his ostensible subject matter was no longer there!
At this point Sarawak Report went outside and confronted the stalker
who then ran away.
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Nevertheless, this same individual later hung at the back door of the cafe
and followed the person who had taken tea with Sarawak Reports editor
all the way back to their hotel.
Proof!
Sure enough, it was RPK who proved the whole network operation when
he duly reported the meeting in his blog over the past weekend.
Only Sarawak Report and the person being met had known about or
discussed the rendez vous, making this blatant surveillance the only
possible source of the information to RPK.
RPK named the contact as a senior from MACC official and implied
(entirely incorrectly) that he was a source of Sarawak Report. This
individual has now sent legal notices to the Kamaruddin over the
misrepresentation of his involvement.
We apologise to the unwitting participant in our exercise, for whom a cup
of tea in the park turned out to be a baffling game of hide and seek with
tough looking stalkers hiding behind trees.
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