Rolle asked Leissner whether he had ever given Rozhan any money he received from his 1MDB work. Leissner said he had – and that he bought her a US$10 million home in London in 2013 after she’d threatened to expose his involvement with 1MDB.
The bribery trial of ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Roger Ng turned tabloid for a while on Tuesday as Ng’s former boss Tim Leissner testified that a media CEO with whom he had an affair blackmailed him into buying her a US$10 million home.
Asked by prosecutor Drew Rolle about his extramarital affairs, Leissner cited several, including one with Rohana Rozhan, former chief executive officer of media company Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd. The relationship lasted from 2003 to 2013, he told the jury.
