Lawyers of long-time former Sarawak chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud have allegedly asked British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) not to cover a book on illegal logging in the state.

According to Bruno Manser Fund, the BBC has received a letter from Mishcon de Reya Solicitors, Taib’s lawyers in London, over BMF executive director Lukas Straumann’s new book ‘Lukas Straumann's book ‘Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia’.