News about 1MDB

  KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 30): Former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he had rejected the “proof” of wrongdoings by 1Malaysia Development Bhd’s (1MDB) mastermind Low Taek Jho (Jho Low), presented to him in 2015 by The Edge Media Group chairman Tong Kooi Ong, as it was based on stolen emails by a disgruntled employee.

PETALING JAYA (Nov 29): Bidding for the US$250 million (RM1 billion) superyacht Equanimity once owned by fugitive financier Jho Low has closed yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 28): Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s (PKR) president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has reiterated that Goldman Sachs Group should be made to pay back more than the amount it received from the Malaysian government for facilitating bond sales for 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) due to its “disgusting” role in the matter.

  KUALA LUMPUR: Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng lambasted opposition members of parliament (MPs) from Barisan Nasional (BN) yesterday for refusing to face the reality that 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) is a mega scandal, calling them “an ostrich burying its head in the sand”.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 27): Tan Sri Shukry Mohd Salleh has been ousted as chairman of Bank Rakyat’s board with immediate effect, as he is allegedly involved in the tampering of the original audit report on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) when he was the chief private secretary of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 26): Police have launched an investigation into the alleged tampering of the Auditor-General’s 2016 report on the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 26): The presence of Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) in a 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) board meeting was to represent Prince Turki Abdullah, the owner of PetroSaudi International, according to Shafee & Co, the law firm representing former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in several ongoing criminal cases.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 26): Auditor-General (A-G) Tan Sri Dr Madinah Mohamad has confirmed that the original audit report on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) issued in 2016 by the National Audit Department had been altered, and that orders to tamper with the report first came from former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 26) : The Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) said it had completed its investigation into Messrs Deloitte over the latter’s role as the former auditor of scandal-plagued fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

PETALING JAYA (Nov 23): The Auditor-General’s (AG) report on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) in 2016 had been amended, following the orders of then prime minister Najib Razak, Utusan reported, citing unnamed sources.