Category Archives: The Taib family

Taib’s son fails to make offer to divorced wife

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

There has not been any sign of a settlement offer from Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, the son of Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud, to his divorced wife despite the court deadline having expired two weeks ago. It is learnt … Continue reading →

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How Taib ‘SCORES’ mega-millions from his dam projects

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

Sarawak Report Taib has handed Abu Bekir the Jackpot contract at the Murum Dam! If you follow the money, the real motive behind Taib’s mega-projects becomes clear. We can now expose how the Chief Minister has managed to ensure that … Continue reading →

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Taib’s son told to list assets within seven days

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

By Hafiz Yatim The Kuala Lumpur Syariah High Court has instructed Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, the Sarawak chief minister’s son, to produce documents relating to his assets within seven days, for his divorce settlement case. This is to facilitate the … Continue reading →

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BN’s dirty Datuks and wealthy YBs – Tiong Thai King

Posted on March 4, 2012 by

Sarawak Report Earlier this week we exposed how Baram’s Federal MP, Jacob Sagan, was secretly bought by a series of timber concessions and construction contracts, worth hundreds of millions of ringgit, into supporting Taib’s proposals to flood his own region … Continue reading →

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British Virgin Islands to probe Taib-linked firms

Posted on February 25, 2012 by

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is investigating into allegations that a number of its registered companies allegedly linked to Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud’s family are involved in money laundering. BVI’s Financial Services Commission, in an email to Malaysiakini, said … Continue reading →

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Floating homes Taib does not want others to see

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

Devastating poverty and squalor for the Ukit people who lost their lands to Taib’s self-enriching project Bruno Manser Fund These are the scenes they have been trying to hide, by setting up an exclusion zone to prevent NGOs and journalists … Continue reading →

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Aluminium smelter a goldmine for Taib’s kin

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

Malaysiakini – Sarawak Report The website in a report on Thursday said that negotiations are under way to sell Salco to giant multinational Rio Tinto Alcan headquartered in Montreal, Canada, in a deal it said would earn “a fat multi-billion … Continue reading →

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Scandal of SALCO – How Taib plans to make billions from Bakun!

Posted on February 18, 2012 by

Sarawak Report Displaced families, who have received so little compensation from Bakun, may be interested to learn how Taib and his own family are planning to make billions for themselves out of the hydro-electric dam, based on an investment of … Continue reading →

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Overseas MoCS councils to trace Taib properties

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

By Joseph Tawie KUCHING: The Movement for Change Sarawak (MoCS) has formed coordinating councils abroad to trace properties and monitor the movements of investments owned by Chief Minister Taib Mahmud and his family. MoCS leader Francis Siah said thus far … Continue reading →

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Golf at the Sarawak Club – Serious foul play!

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

Sarawak Report With Taib insisting he can only scrape together a miserable RM3.47million to alleviate all the hard core rural poverty in the state, it fairly beggars belief that he has felt it appropriate to generously donate land worth at … Continue reading →

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All contracts on Isthmus went to Taib’s family’

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

By Joseph Tawie KUCHING: Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s family-owned business, CMS Land Sdn Bhd, was given 275 acres of land in the Isthmus, eight km from Kuching, in 1998 and “to make the land more valuable”, the government built the … Continue reading →

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Eye Of The Needle – Ibrahim Mahmud

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Sarawak Report Ibrahim Mahmud who died a few days ago was an honest policeman sucked into the family corruption. One very old adage is that you can’t bring your material wealth into the next world. Plenty of ancient cultures hoped … Continue reading →

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Hii family connection to Asia Plywood and Taib family

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

Industry insiders have revealed that the main suppliers of timber to the cheating Asia Plywood Company, are the well-known Sarawak tycoons, the Miri-based Hii family. Asia Plywood, which rents the major saw mill ‘Tegas Kesuma’, based in Tanjung Manis, is … Continue reading →

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Taib retreats into the world of Make-Believe

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Sarawak Report The Chief Minister is not used to criticism and stamps like an angry child in the face of it. This is a great weakness, because it means that wrongs are not put right and fawning publicity can make … Continue reading →

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S’pore-sized land lots go to Taib-linked firms

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

The Bruno Manser Fund has claimed that leaked records of the Sarawak Land and Survey Department show 31 companies linked to Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud granted land for oil palm plantation. The total size of land, it says, … Continue reading →

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Taib’s landgrabs – The breakdown

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Sarawak Report Don’t take our forest! Bruno Manser Fund has looked behind ‘development’ at the real motive driving Taib – Money. Bruno Manser Fund’s research team have done the world another favour.  They have conducted a careful and painstaking analysis … Continue reading →

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Another ‘annus horribilis’ for Taib

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

By Keruah Usit Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud raised eyebrows, and a few laughs, when he lost his temper very visibly on Dec 17 last year. A reporter asked him in passing about NGO allegations of corruption and calls … Continue reading →

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Taib summoned to testify at Syariah High Court

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

By Hafiz Yatim Long-time Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud has been subpoenaed to testify as a witness in the matrimonial asset dispute between his second son, Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, and his divorced wife, Shahnaz A Majid. Court documents … Continue reading →

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Taib drops his libel case – Happy New Year!

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Sarawak Report So, the threats and bluster have come to naught.  What a non-surprise! Taib Mahmud launched his libel case against Malaysiakini way back in 2008, thundering from the State Assembly that the evidence that his brother’s company had accepted kickbacks … Continue reading →

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Witches, riches, victories in Taib-land

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

By Joseph Tawie   PBB president Taib Mahmud will not allow Umno’s Najib Tun Razak or Muhyiddin Yassin to ever corner him again. In Sarawak, the highlight of 2011 was the “unravelling” of “godlike” Chief Minister Taib Mahmud and the … Continue reading →

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‘It’s really unbelievable; Taib’s family controls Sarawak’

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

Jessica Dacey Swiss-based Bruno Manser Fund’s revelations of Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s billion dollar business empire is not going to let-up in 2012. After two decades of environmental campaigning for Malaysia’s Penan tribe (in Sarawak) the Bruno Manser Fund … Continue reading →

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Senator accuses Taib-linked group of illegal logging

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

A unit of Ta Ann Group Bhd, a Sarawak-based timber giant closely linked to Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud, is being accused by an Australian lawmaker of invading a protected 430,000-hectare Tasmanian forest that was supposed to be protected … Continue reading →

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Taib running scared?

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

Sarawak Report Tight lipped – He once lapped up attention, but now the door is slammed shut For the first time in 30 years Abdul Taib Mahmud has cancelled the traditional press conference, normally held at the Wisma Bapa Malaysia after the … Continue reading →

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Taib’s sister ordered to pay natives

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

By Joseph Tawie Fresh from one win over a logging firm, native landowners are now suing the state government and its agents for allowing the encroachment by private entities. The Kuching High Court today ordered Quality Concrete Holdings, a company … Continue reading →

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MACC keeps mum on Taib Mahmud graft probe

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

By S Pathmawathy A senior Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officer yesterday refused to comment on the status of its investigations into graft allegations against Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud. Ironically, the officer – MACC investigation division deputy commission Azmi … Continue reading →

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