News about Jho Low

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 21): The government is aware of and knows the whereabouts of businessman-turned-fugitive Low Taek Jho (pictured), or better known as Jho Low, who has been linked to the financial troubles at beleaguered 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), according to former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 17): Former Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Datuk Seri Hassan Arifin (BN-Rompin) told Parliament yesterday that he did not summon Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho or Jho Low to explain issues concerning 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), as he did not find it necessary.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 16): Malaysia will strive to prove that the private aircraft owned by businessman Low Taek Jho or Jho Low was bought with money stolen from the country, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 16): Investigations into the RM1 billion Equanimity (pictured) superyacht as part of a corruption probe linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) is "going as planned", says lawyer Sitpah Selvaratnam, who is heading the team of lawyers representing 1MDB and the Malaysian government in the claim over Equanimity.

SINGAPORE (August 14): An aircraft linked to an investigation into 1MDB is parked at the city-state's Seletar Airport, said Singapore police today, according to Reuters.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 14): The Equanimity superyacht – which is linked to Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho or Jho Low (pictured) – would be liquidated if nobody lays claim over the superyacht in the next two to three months, Attorney-General Tommy Thomas (pictured) said in a Malaysiakini report today.

KUALA LUMPUR (August 13): Rembau member of parliament (MP) Khairy Jamuluddin has asked fugitive financier and a key figure in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) to come back to Malaysia to face the law.

TANJUNG MALIM (Aug 12): Several government agencies took part in a meeting yesterday to coordinate security control on the luxurious yacht Equanimity.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 11): Mohamad Fuzi was accompanying Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad during an inspection of the luxury yacht, Equanimity, which had docked at the Boustead Cruise Centre Terminal, Port Klang.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 11): It is currently the most famous ship in Malaysia, The Equanimity (pictured).