News about DoJ

US: (Aug 6): The Justice Department announced yesterday (Aug 5) that it has repatriated an additional US$452 million (RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 12): Penang-born fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) (pictured) and rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel were on Thursday charged in the US District of Columbia with orchestrating an unregistered, back-channel campaign in 2017 linked to former US president Donald Trump to have investigations related to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) be dropped, and to send a Chinese dissident back to China.

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery Good Afternoon.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 20): Goldman Sachs Group Inc has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to pay more than US$2 billion (RM8.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 17): Solicitors representing the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) is currently looking into reports that the United States Department of Justice is seeking some US$300 million additional assets allegedly from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), a sum that the MACC is also seeking to recover from several parties via a forfeiture application.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 6): A Malaysian official has pointed to the below market price sale of 1MDB-linked Walker Tower penthouse in New York as further justification for the government’s recent decision to strike a deal with Goldman Sachs.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 12): The purchase of luxury superyacht Topaz, which is estimated to be worth US$688 million (RM2.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 7): The US has reached a settlement to recover more than US$49 million involving Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a Reuters report today.

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 (Jan 9): “I need that agreement to be sorted out quickly, Your Highness.