Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown had nothing but praise for KTMB chairperson Rameli Musa (pictured, above), whom she claimed to have paid her RM1.4 million on behalf of PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.

"I didn’t wish to publicise it, this was a very honourable respectable gentleman, who I think has assisted PAS financially over the years and has been a good patron of Hadi’s for the very best possible reasons.

"I think he is a very devout man, and I think he was very upset by the problems that Hadi had led the party into and he wanted to try and extract PAS from the embarrassing court case that it was in...