Jho Low’s celebrity pal cum business partner had pleaded innocence over his role in laundering money looted 1MDB and the attempted corruption of the US government on behalf of Najib and then China. The jury decided otherwise….
Swiss prosecutors have moved to indict the managers of PetroSaudi, Tarek Obaid and Patrick Mahony, who for eight years have managed to spend 1MDB’s stolen money and live unpunished for their role in aiding and abetting Najib and Jho Low in pulling off Malaysia’s Heist of the Century….
More toe curling details on how Malaysia’s stolen money was employed in attempted bribes to influence successive Presidents of the United States have emerged from the New York trial of hip hop star Pras Michel…..
Detail from the Jho Low money laundering trial in Kuwait has provided new information about how China worked to assist Najib Razak at the highest levels to raise stolen money from projects in Malaysia in order to cover the thefts from 1MDB…..
It was Sarawak Report that first spotted the 1MDB linked donations into Democrat campaigns, alerting investigators in the United States. The present indictment against Pras Michel and Jho Low claims they funnelled $100 million in illegal cash to gain influence over President Obama and the US government. The rap star recruited his friends as “Straw Donors” to hide the the real source of the prohibited foreign money….
The Kuwaiti criminal court has now published its judgement against what it describes as an “organised criminal group” consisting of Jho Low; Sheikh Sabah, son of the former Kuwait prime minister; his lawyer, Saud Abdelmohsan; a former businesss partner, Bachar Kiwan and Jho Low’s Kuwaiti friend, Hamad Al Wazzan who shared the proceeds of “funds seized from the Malaysian government” totalling in excess of a billion dollars. How much will Malaysia get back and what about the damages?…….
The son of Kuwait’s former prime minister, Jho Low’s college mate and Malaysia’s own top fugitive, Jho Low himself, have all been found guilty of laundering hundreds of millions in stolen Malaysian money used by Najib to cover up 1MDB in a landmark ruling by the Gulf state…….
As the latest prosecution over 1MDB begins next week in the United States there is a glaring inequality over who has been punished and who has not……
Abu Dhabi’s IPIC has eaten humble pie, having climbed down from demanding $6 billion it had claimed 1MDB owed and instead ponied up $1.8 billion in reparations to 1MDB over its criminal complicity in the heist from which senior figures in the Gulf state raked hundreds of millions of dollars. It is a stunning victory for Malaysia, but it was owed so much more…..
Back in 2020, the extraordinary circumstances surrounding Goldman Sachs’ lightening resolution of its dispute with the Malaysian company 1MDB shortly after the coup led by Muhyiddin Yassin raised several eyebrows. Did the cut price settlement involve a violation of its recently concluded Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the US Dept of Justice? It is time to reveal exactly what happened …….
The whistleblower couple Xavier and Laura Justo lift the lid on their personal story after being targeted to cover up the scandal of 1MDB. Their book is online and will be available shortly in KL bookstores….
SR gets to the bottom of Najib’s latest twisted attempt to create yet a further appeal (following the loss of his last legal avenue through the Federal Court) against conviction over his multi-million ringgit theft from a public pension fund through SRC……
If UMNO was hoping to avoid constant reminders of its criminal connections and the global 1MDB scandal during GE15 then maybe November was not such a clever time to call it after all? The celebrity trial of the year is due to set off the fireworks on November 5th in Hollywood. If that was not in the UMNO PM’s diary then someone slipped up…..
Malaysians are now faced with competing with other creditors to retrieve the investment of millions stolen from 1MDB into a failed development in Mannheim, Germany says a local investigative journalist from the town…..
The worst is that Rosmah can well afford it as everyone in Malaysia knows, including her paid blogger who sought to get her off the hook through contempt of court …..
Kuwait has been sitting on $1.8 billion of stolen Malaysian cash for two years as KL refuses to pick up the phone and admit another scandal by ex-PM Najib. Indeed, ever since the UMNO coalition seized power once more we have seen a return to cover-up and secret negotiations when it comes to the return of Malaysia’s stolen money ….
The clanging of keys and the slamming of the jail door behind Najib tonight has brought one long saga to an end. However, it is also the beginning of so much more to be revealed…..
Having been disappointed over its attempts to milk a lucrative settlement in return for dropping charges against Jho Low the coup government is now found out to have been negotiating with the PetroSaudi Boys as well!….
Time to start digging round the treasure islands to find Malaysia’s missing RM1.5 billion in Jho Low’s secret trust accounts…..
Following the unanimous conviction of Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng in New York there are signs that prosecutors may be moving to target higher officials from the bank. After all, the trial exposed damning evidence about the men at the top and what they knew….
There are clear questions of ethics facing US law firm Kobre & Kim over their negotiations on behalf of Jho Low to apparently trade the dropping of charges against him for the return of stolen money….
From the day the political perpetrators of 1MDB and countless other kleptocratic crimes executed their coup on February 28th 2020, restoring those stolen assets has represented barely more than an attempt to re-steal the money……
The present King of Malaysia has demonstrated on several occasions now that he feels no shame in publicly consorting with the convicted kleptocrat Najib Razak, so it is time to explain his motives and exactly what has happened to the money his family received from 1MDB? …….
Ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng has learnt you can be the fall guy and be found guilty at the same time. However, his trial has pointed a damning finger at far more senior figures who ought not be allowed to escape the evidence against them…..
The alleged cream of the next generation of Britain’s aspiring political leadership are being educated in governance at an institution set up by a man who made his money from the corruption of Putin’s Russia and lectured to by the brother of the world’s most notorious kleptocrat……
