Whistleblower site Sarawak Report may have started out focusing on grassroots concerns and issues in East Malaysia, but its editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown said she eventually found herself on the trail of 1MDB.

"You suddenly realise you have got your scent on what is clearly a global story and I couldn't resist that story of a lifetime, and so I went for it," she said in an interview with BFM radio this morning...