Owner, publisher of The Edge admit misleading Swiss national into believing he would be paid for documents on 1MDB

Shannon TeohMalaysia Bureau Chief Updated Jan 19, 2016, 02:08 PM Published Jul 24, 2015, 11:57 AM More Whatsapp Linkedin Twitter FB Messenger Email Print Purchase Article Copy permalinkCopy to clipboard KUALA LUMPUR - The owner and the publisher of The Edge Media Group admitted on Friday to misleading Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo into believing that he would be paid for handing over 400,000 documents relating to 1Malaysia Development Berhad's (1MDB) aborted venture with Saudi oil firm PetroSaudi.In a joint response to The Straits Times' interview with the former PetroSaudi executive, Datuk Tong Kooi Ong and Mr Ho Kay Tat said: "Yes, we misled him.""But that was the only way to get hold of the evidence to expose how a small group of Malaysians and foreigners cheated the people of Malaysia of US$1.83 billion (S$2.5 billion)," they said in a statement posted on the Malaysian Insider, a news portal owned by the media group.Both men, however, denied tampering with the documents as clai...