News about Jho Low

  KUALA LUMPUR (March 29): The government today filed a civil forfeiture action against Penang businessman Tan Sri Larry Low Hock Peng to freeze seven of his banking accounts here, said to be worth RM48 million.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 28): The Government is turning to private treaty or direct sale to dispose of the Equanimity after an auction failed to obtain an agreeable price for the mega-yacht, said Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.

PETALING JAYA (March 24): Fugitive businesman/dealmaker Low Taek Jho aka Jho Low (pictured) has condemned the seizure of his family home in Tanjung Bungah Park, Penang by the authorities.

GEORGE TOWN (March 23): It has been reported that the family bungalow owned by the family of fugitive businessman/dealmaker Low Taek Jho aka Jho Low (pictured) has been seized by the police over investigations on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal.

  KUALA LUMPUR (March 14): The US Justice Department (DoJ) is investigating if fugitive financier Low Taek Jho had any part in financing President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.

SEMENYIH (Feb 22): The Malaysian Government has not secured the cooperation of an unnamed country to extradite fugitive financier Joh Low, Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said at a ceramah here last night.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 8): The sale of the superyacht Equanimity is progressing well and many potential buyers have visited the vessel currently moored in Langkawi, said Jonathan Beckett, CEO of Burgess, the luxury yacht specialist which is the appointed agent to sell the vessel.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 6): Bloomberg has reported that an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund has bought a stake in the Park Lane Hotel in New York.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 28): Jho Low’s parents and two other associates are being sought by the Malaysia’s police as part of the investigation into the 1MDB scandal.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 25): Officers from the Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) yesterday raided Messrs Rahmat Lim & Partners, the local law firm used by global bank Goldman Sachs in its 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) dealings, and left with a box of documents and laptops.