News about PetroSaudi

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 5): The High Court here was told that the joint venture (JV) between 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and PetroSaudi International (PSI) in 2009 had “zero governance”, yet the former persisted in partnering with the latter to preserve their “strategic relationship”, a witness said.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 4): Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officer Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi (pictured, left) today revealed that most of the funds raised by the sovereign wealth fund intended to be utilised for the development of Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) and Bandar Malaysia had instead gone to PetroSaudi International Ltd (PSI).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Enlarged pictures of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's swollen eyes were shared to High Court Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah today, as the defence team had requested to postpone court proceedings because the former premier's eyes were painful.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 31): The key figure in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd scandal Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, is currently in the United Arab Emirates and and has obtained asylum in another country on the basis of human rights and political persecution, legal sources told The Malaysian Insight (TMI).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): The High Court has fixed Dec 16 as the next case mention date for charges (change to summons) against three Goldman Sachs entities in the latter's alleged conduct of misleading investors in the issuance of three 1MDB bonds.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho confirmed today he has reached a landmark comprehensive, global settlement with the US government to resolve the US' civil and criminal actions relating to his assets.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 31): The Department of Justice has reached a settlement of its civil forfeiture cases against assets acquired by Low Taek Jho, aka Jho Low, and his family using funds allegedly misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Malaysia’s investment development fund, and laundered through financial institutions in several jurisdictions, including the United States, Switzerland, Singapore and Luxembourg.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): Even though 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) had yet to see any returns from its US$1 billion investment in its joint venture (JV) with PetroSaudi International Ltd (PSI), former chief executive officer Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi told the High Court he did not find it odd or "hare-brained" to fork out another US$1.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): PetroSaudi International Ltd (PSI) chief executive and co-founder Tarek Obaid received an US$85 million (about RM356 million) commission as a result of the company's joint venture (JV) deal with 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): The government will have to forked out RM13.