News about 1MDB

KUALA LUMPUR (March 9): Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) deputy director for corporate crime investigations, assistant commissioner (ACP) R Rajagopal has today testified that former MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed suggested charging former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak with offences related to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and its former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd in a 1MDB special task force meeting on July 4, 2015.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 9): Newly appointed Attorney-General Tan Sri Idrus Harun has given the mandate to former Federal Court judge Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram, who is also senior deputy public prosecutor (DPP), to continue prosecuting four high-profile cases.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 6): The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has delayed returning to Malaysia another US$240 million (about RM1 billion) of recovered money allegedly stolen from the 1MDB sovereign fund, two sources told Reuters today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 6): The High Court has fixed April 17 to hear the Inland Revenue Board (IRB)’s application to obtain summary judgment against former premier Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak over unpaid taxes amounting to RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 6): Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief commissioner Latheefa Koya said she released audio recordings allegedly related to the dealings of 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and its former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd, involving former premier Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak so that officials from the MACC, Attorney-General’s Chambers and the Prime Minister’s Office would never again be involved in criminal activity.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 5): Xavier Andre Justo (pictured), the Swiss who played a pivotal role in exposing the 1MDB scandal, has left Malaysia with his family for his home country.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 4): An MACC officer investigating the RM2.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 4): The SRC International Sdn Bhd trial today, which is nearing the conclusion of the defence stage, will see MIC legal advisor Selva Mookiah take the witness stand.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 3): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) had in 2015 declared that he had nothing to do with former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak’s bank accounts.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 3): Former Putrajaya Perdana Bhd (PPB) group executive director Jerome Lee Tak Loong said he did not know who received two cash transfers totalling RM32 million paid from the company’s accounts in 2014.