‘Whistleblower’ Justo sought Dr M’s intervention to recover dues, book claims

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Journalist Leslie Lopez says Dr Mahathir Mohamad assured Xavier Andre Justo he would look into the matter.  Read More:  https://staging-beta.freemalaysiatoday.com/posts/preview/?p=L0dySXF2eHc3LytKL3BNUzlxSnhTUjFGNEo2WXp3M3ZkellETXJGSm1taz0=  Laporan Lanjut:  https://staging-beta.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2024/10/09/justo-mohon-dr-m-campur-tangan-untuk-dapat-bayaran-dijanjikan-dakwa-buku/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #DrMahathirMohamad #XavierAndreJusto #LeslieLopez #1MDB

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00:00A new book claimed that Swiss national Xavier André Justo had sought Dr. Mahathir Mohamed's

00:07intervention to recover payment promised to him for helping expose the 1MDB scandal.

00:13In 2015, Justo, a former Petro-Saudi international IT executive, pleaded guilty in a Thai court

00:19to blackmail, extortion, and peddling data stolen from his employers.

00:25After his release from a prison under a royal amnesty, journalist Leslie Lopez claimed that

00:29Justo's promised fee of $2 million USD was refused because he had confessed to stealing

00:35Petro-Saudi's data.

00:37In The Siege Within, Lopez wrote that Justo had presented himself as an aggrieved whistleblower

00:41to Mahathir, the newly-installed prime minister after the 2018 general election.

00:46The book claimed that Mahathir had assured Justo that he would look into the matter.

00:50However, Lopez said Justo's paymasters were concerned that they would be incriminating

00:55themselves by making the payment.

00:57As a result, it was decided that Justo would begin presenting himself to the public as

01:01the whistleblower of the 1MDB scandal, with the financial settlement sorted out eight

01:05months later.

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