When Lester Melanyi, a self-professed writer for Sarawak Report confessed that the whistleblower site was fabricating information, it appeared like the trump card for detractors to turn the tables on the UK-based whistleblowing portal.

The allegation fits perfectly into the government's long-standing narrative that Sarawak Report 's allegations of misappropriation of 1MDB's funds were based on 'tampered' information and BN was quick to jump on it.