News about Jho Low

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 6): Low Taek Jho had referred to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as "Optimus Prime" — the ultimate leader for Autobots, the main protagonists of the animated alien robot series Transformers, the High Court was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 6): Fugitive financier Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) will not be able to use the ongoing tax amnesty programme to escape criminal prosecution over alleged theft of state funds, says Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 6): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, who is known to have facilitated transfers to and from AmBank accounts of Datuk Seri Najib Razak between year 2011 and 2015, may have skipped the former prime minister’s approval in one of those transfers, the High Court was told yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 6): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) ordered RM40 million of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds to be channelled into former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s AmBank accounts in the final week of December 2014 to ensure funds advanced by two Putrajaya Perdana Bhd units could be returned.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 2): A transfer of RM27 million of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds — code-named “Eagle 27” — into former premier  Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 880 account was misrepresented by fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) as a donation from royalty, when it had actually originated from SRC International Sdn Bhd’s account.

  PETALING JAYA (Aug 1): Lawyers working for fugitive financier Jho Low (pictured) are trying to stop the documentary 'The Kleptocrats' from being screened.

  KUALA LUMPUR (July 29): Former AmBank relationship manager Joanna Yu, the 54th prosecution witness in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's SRC International Sdn Bhd trial, agreed that most of the instructions relating to the former premier's bank accounts were issued by fugitive financier Low Taek Jho.

  KUALA LUMPUR (July 25) After the adjournment granted by the High Court yesterday following the ailment suffered by lawyers Harvinderjit Singh and Farhan Read, Datuk Seri Najib Razak's SRC International Sdn Bhd trial is expected to continue today.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Former AmBank Bhd relationship manager Joanna Yu Ging Ping, who denied yesterday that she was a “rogue banker” who acted in concert with fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho or Jho Low, told the High Court yesterday that she only took instructions from former SRC International Sdn Bhd chief executive officer and managing director Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil, who is the mandate holder of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s  accounts with the bank.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 19): A spokesman for Low Taek Jho, via his US legal team, claimed today that the improper seizure of assets purportedly linked to Taek Jho is the inevitable result of illegitimate proceedings brought by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's regime because the outcome was preordained and politically motivated.