Tanore Finance Corporation (BVI) at Falcon bank in Singapore when his account was closed on 30 August 2013. Tanore Corporation was later closed down in April 2014. The website also alleged that UMNO Back Bencher Chairman Shahrir Abdul Samad, received RM1 million while the Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan, received RM2 million from the Najib's private account. In July 2016, Sarawak Report released details of the classified Auditor General's Report on 1MDB and BNM letter to Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC), highlighting the inconsistencies of explanations and documents provided by 1MDB. On 6 August 2016, Sarawak Report alleged that Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) received RM 90 million from Najib. In April 2017, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang decided to file a defamation lawsuit against Sarawak Report. In April 2018, Sarawak Report further alleged that PAS received RM 2.5 million from UMNO on 21 March 2018. PAS admitted that they have receive the RM 2.5 million but they refused to disclose the source of donation. In May 2018, Hadi Awang's lawyer claimed that he had won all five interlocutory applications in libel suit against Sarawak Report and Sarawak Report had to pay £28,900 for Hadi's legal costs. However, Sarawak Report debunked the Hadi's lawyer statement that the payment was necessary for the costs accrued due to revision of defence and the full trial will be heard from 1 April 2019 to 10 April 2019 for total ten days. On 2 February 2019, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang agreed on an out-of-court settlement with Sarawak Report. Riza Aziz and Red Granite Pictures In December 2013, Sarawak Report ran a series of exposés on Riza Aziz, stepson of Prime Minister Najib Razak, and how he managed to get millions in funding for his film production company Red Granite Pictures. The production company was involved with funding the Oscar nominated movie, The Wolf of Wall Street to the tune of US$100 million. Also reported was Aziz's purchase of a US$33.5 million luxury condominium in New York City in November 2012. Red Granite Pictures has threatened legal action against Sarawak Report, but no action has been taken so far. In January 2014, Riza Aziz was dropped from a list of nominees for Academy Award for Best Picture after he was nominated by Producers Guild of America (PGA) for the movie Wolf of the Wall Street. Reception Sarawak Report has received both praise and criticism. In 2013,