A new book that accuses former Sarawak chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud of environmental crimes and corruption is to be launched in Japan on Nov 3, says Swiss-based NGO Bruno Manser Fund (BMF).

‘Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia’, written by BMF executive director Lukas Straumann, is to be launched at the 50th session of the International Tropical Timber Council in Yokohama.