There’s no better way to tell the world that you have something to hide than kicking reporters out of a supposedly public event.
That was what 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) allegedly did on Tuesday.
The Star Online reported that Wall Street Journal deputy bureau chief for Australia and New Zealand, Rachel Pannett, was reportedly told to leave a 1MDB event hosted by Kelab Umno at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Present at the event was 1MDB president Arul Kanda Kandasamy.
“Just got kicked out of a ‘public’ event where 1MDB’s Arul Kanda explaining the controversy to Malaysian students in Sydney,” Rachel tweeted.
Accompanying the tweet was a picture of Arul Kanda, supposedly taken at the event.
In another tweet, Rachel wrote that the 1MDB head had declined to answer questions regarding the troubled wealth fund right after the event:
The business news site has long been a thorn in 1MDB’s site, often publishing articles related to its alleged misappropriation of funds reportedly involving billions of dollars.
In July 2015, WSJ shocked the world when they published an exposé claiming that funds from 1MDB had been pumped into Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bank accounts for his personal use.
