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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): The High Court today ordered the Works Minister, the de-facto Law Minister and government to be defendants in a suit brought by contractor Mega Sasa Sdn Bhd against the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), its director Vinayak Pradhan, Kinta Bakti Sdn Bhd and one Soh Lieh Sieng.

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).

PETALING JAYA (Oct 30): Oriental Fastech Manufacturing Sdn Bhd (OFM) yesterday accepted the letter of offer to acquire Penang Science Park from Penang Development Corp (PDC) for RM24.

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.