Low Taek Jho (Jho Low)

SINGAPORE (June 16): More than US$4.5 billion ($6.2 billion) in funds belonging to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) has been allegedly siphoned off by high-level officials of 1MDB and their associates, according to a 251-page asset seizure filing by the U

SINGAPORE (June 16): The US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday filed its third lawsuit to seize an additional US$540 million ($747 million) worth of assets linked to corruption involving Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB

SINGAPORE (June 13): Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho is alleged to have pocketed US$300 million ($415 million) in less than a week after funds illegally siphoned from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) were used to finance the US$2.2 billion purchase of

SINGAPORE (June 2): This past week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) imposed penalties on two more banks and said it had completed an extensive, two-year-long probed into the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

SINGAPORE (May 24): Kelvin Ang Wee Keng, a former remisier with Maybank Kim Eng, has become the fifth person convicted in Singapore for roles related to fund transfers linked to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

SINGAPORE (May 24): Kelvin Ang Wee Keng, a former remisier with Maybank Kim Eng, on Wednesday became the fifth person convicted in Singapore in connection to an ongoing probe involving 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

LOS ANGELES (May 18): The producer of “The Wolf of Wall Street” is in talks with the US Justice Department to settle a lawsuit alleging the movie was funded by money siphoned from a Malaysian state investment fund.

This article appears in Issue 1160 (week of May 1) of The Edge Malaysia which is out this week

SINGAPORE (March 22): The noose is tightening around Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho – the alleged mastermind behind the multibillion-dollar scandal over state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

SINGAPORE (March 14): The trial of former BSI wealth planner Yeo Jiawei over money-laundering charges linked to Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) has been postponed.