Clare Rewcastle Brown

As a kid, my first friends were the local children and we used to climb trees and run barefoot, dodging the odd…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

The people I spoke to who were worried they would be killed for talking to me are now all ministers in the…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

Fake news was manufactured to the tune of millions of dollars in an attempt to discredit my story.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

As I found myself in the thick of the biggest investigative story of my career, I suffered state-backed computer hacking of my…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

Exposing the world's biggest financial heist, the so-called 1MDB scandal, turned out to be an adventure in more ways than one.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

I have vivid memories of leaving North Borneo at 8, and I remember the vast canopy of rain forest.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

Having grown up on Sarawak, a Malaysian state on Borneo, I had become increasingly incensed by the seemingly mad and wanton destruction…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

A super rich elite have emerged thanks to the lack of law and order, and thanks to the lack of jurisdiction over…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

I must try to do something. I'll never forgive myself if I don't try.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

Prime Minister Najib had continuously denounced me as an enemy of the Malaysian state and accused me of spreading Fake News.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

If a government is overreacting in this way and treating you as such a dangerous threat, then you know that you are…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

But I have this vivid memory of flying over Borneo down the coast to Singapore. It was a two-hour journey in those…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

I grew up as this rather lonely European kid living in the east Malaysian jungle.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

I have had to put in police reports that I have been stalked and followed.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

I soon realised the state rulers were being protected by the federal government who relied on these rotten boroughs to deliver their…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

I think people knew why I was doing what I was doing. They knew I wasn't part of an interest group. And,…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

English is still the unifying language in Sarawak and I use my blog and broadcasts to expose the outrageous deforestation which has…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

I disapprove of the analysis that Jho Low was special and that he pulled off something amazing, because I think he was…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

My mother would drag me to remote clinics to show the indigenous Dayaks what a healthy baby should look like.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

In the end I got a major newspaper in South East Asia to buy a whistleblower's account for a ludicrous bunch of…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

I'm fairly practiced at squirreling out stories and sources - I talk to people; I ask people if they know anyone worth…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

I discovered the Internet. I started seeing how much company information was out there - they didn't think it would be accessible…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

My investigations have indicated that Taib and his family have a property empire in Canada, the US and the UK. Funds have…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown