Australia’s Kevin Rudd alerts Attorney General over Taib family activities

ARCHIVES 2011

By admin-s On Sep 30, 2011

Australian Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd, addressing the UN earlier this week

Australia’s Foreign Minister and former Primer Minister, Kevin Rudd, has replied to a joint letter by the Bruno Manser Fund, Sarawak Report and PKR Sarawak Leader Baru Bian on suspected unlawful activities of the Taib family in Australia.

By Hornbill Unleashed

We would like to briefly update you on the latest developments on the Bruno Manser Fund’s international Stop Timber Corrupting campaign:

– Australia’s Foreign Minister and former Primer Minister, Kevin Rudd, has replied to a joint letter by the Bruno Manser Fund, Sarawak Report and PKR Sarawak Leader Baru Bian on suspected unlawful activities of the Taib family in Australia. Please find scans of the letter attached.

– Research by the Bruno Manser Fund has identified 25 Australian companies with links to the family of Malaysian potentate Abdul Taib Mahmud. Please find the exclusive list attached.

– Canadian Finance Minister James H. Flaherty has personally replied to a letter by the Bruno Manser Fund on suspected money-laundering by Sakto corporation, an Ottawa-based property developer which is being directed by Taib’s daughter, Jamilah Taib, and her Canadian husband, Sean Patrick Murray.

BMF has not yet received an answer from American authorities contacted on these matters, including FBI director Robert Mueller. The FBI is renting its Seattle field office, located in the Abraham Lincoln Building in downtown Seattle, from Taib family-owned Wallysons Inc., a Washington state corporation.

With best wishes,

Your BMF campaignteam

Below is the article reported at the web site sarawak report

Kevin Rudd, Australia’s former Premier and current Foreign Minister has issued a prompt and positive response to our request for an investigation into the Taib family’s foreign assets in that country.

In a letter received yesterday, just one day after Sarawak Report publicised the request, Australia’s Foreign Minister confirmed that the matter of Taib’s wealth has been referred to the Australian Attorney General’s Department for consideration.

This follows similar commitments to investigate by the Swiss and German governments. Malaysia’s own Anti-Corruption Commission has also confirmed that it has launched an official investigation into the Chief Minister’s conduct.