News about 1MDB

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 4): Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) today avoided having further conditions imposed on his bail, after the prosecution questioned his presence in Johor last Friday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 4): The Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia Development Trial enters its 29th day with questions being asked on the former premier's eye ailment.

KUALA LUMPUR: Attorney-General (AG) Tan Sri Tommy Thomas said the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-Tanore trial requires the expertise of 76-year-old prosecutor Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram, a former Federal Court judge, as the case is a highly complex white collar crime case that calls for an all-round barrister to lead the prosecution exam.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 4): Fugitive Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho has been a Cyprus citizen for the past four years, according to Politis, a daily Greek-language newspaper published in Cyprus.

PUTRAJAYA (Nov 1) : The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is looking into the responses of the 80 individuals and entities against whom it had issued compound notices to recover money totalling some RM420 million believed to be from 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 1): High Court Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah has discharged himself from hearing the forfeiture case involving the public prosecutor and OBYU Holdings Sdn Bhd, Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Umno and Lebanese jeweller Global Royalty SAL, which wanted to intervene and be a third party in the matter.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Enlarged pictures of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's swollen eyes were shared to High Court Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah today, as the defence team had requested to postpone court proceedings because the former premier's eyes were painful.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 31): The key figure in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd scandal Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, is currently in the United Arab Emirates and and has obtained asylum in another country on the basis of human rights and political persecution, legal sources told The Malaysian Insight (TMI).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): The High Court has fixed Dec 16 as the next case mention date for charges (change to summons) against three Goldman Sachs entities in the latter's alleged conduct of misleading investors in the issuance of three 1MDB bonds.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho confirmed today he has reached a landmark comprehensive, global settlement with the US government to resolve the US' civil and criminal actions relating to his assets.