Lincoln Caylor and Maureen Ward appear in a Toronto Star look back on fraud in Canada in 2017. Bennett Jones is legal counsel to the Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF), which campaigns for the conservation of threatened tropical rainforests.

BMF has been investigating the money-laundering case linked to Taib Mahmud, the former Chief Minister and current Governor of Sarawak, a Malaysian state in Borneo. He is accused of having abused his power as a public official, during his tenure as Chief Minister from 1981 to 2014, over 90 percent of Sarawak’s primeval tropical rainforests have been logged.