News about Red Granite

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): The government will have to forked out RM13.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): The diversion of US$700 million to Good Star Ltd — a company linked to fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho — instead of the joint venture company set up between 1 Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and PetroSaudi International Ltd (PSI), was apparently known to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, said a former 1MDB chief executive.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 26): Senior deputy public prosecutor (DPP) Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram produced a document showing that Red Granite Productions Inc had received US$10.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 9): The trial for Riza Shahriz Abdul Aziz (pictured), stepson of Datuk Seri Najib Razak, entailing five charges of money laundering amounting to US$248.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 7): The US government has returned and will be returning substantial monies to Malaysia, representing the first instalment of funds recovered from asset seizures related to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) under the US Department of Justice's (DoJ) Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, says Attorney General Tommy Thomas.

PETALING JAYA (September 25): Production company Red Granite Pictures has paid off the balance of its US$60 million (RM234 million) settlement with the US government Red Granite had been accused of using more than $100 million embezzled from 1MDB, The American magazine Variety reported that in an agreement reached with federal prosecutors in March, Red Granite had promised to make the forfeiture payment in three instalments.