Leissner, 52, was describing the lengths he said he and his subordinate Ng went to in helping Malaysian financier Jho Low loot billions of dollars from the Malaysian fund.
The star witness in the bribery trial of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Roger Ng testified that ex-Goldman chief Lloyd Blankfein (picture) met in 2009 with the Malaysian prime minister ahead of US$6.5 billion in bond deals for the country’s wealth fund – and that the meeting came with an agenda.
In return for the lucrative business, Goldman was to get then prime minister Najib Razak’s three children jobs at the bank, former Southeast Asia chairman Tim Leissner told the jury on Tuesday about the 1MDB scheme.
