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DiCaprio returns Brando Oscar as part of 1MDB money-laundering probe

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DiCaprio returns Brando Oscar as part of 1MDB money-laundering probe
(June 16): Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has turned over an Oscar won by Marlon Brando to U.S. investigators probing alleged money laundering by a state-owned Malaysian investment fund 1MDB, his representatives said on Thursday.
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(June 16): Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has turned over an Oscar won by Marlon Brando to U.S. investigators probing alleged money laundering by a state-owned Malaysian investment fund 1MDB, his representatives said on Thursday.

DiCaprio has also initiated the return of other, unidentified items that the actor said he accepted as gifts for a charity auction and which originated from people connected to the 1MDB wealth fund, they said in a statement.

In July, Hollywood production company Red Granite was accused in a U.S. civil lawsuit of using US$100 million ($138 million) that prosecutors said had been diverted from the 1MDB fund to finance DiCaprio's 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street," in which he starred.

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