Low Taek Jho (Jho Low)

SINGAPORE (Nov 2): Former BSI wealth planner Yeo Jiawei was paid some $500,000 a year by Low Taek Jho, the Malaysian financier who is accused of siphoning billions from Malaysia's state fund 1MDB, Yeo’s former boss Kevin Swampillai told the court on

SINGAPORE (Nov 1): Yeo Jiawei, the former BSI wealth planner charged in relation to the 1MDB affair, left the Swiss private bank to work for the bank’s client Low Taek Jho, according to Yeo’s former boss at BSI, Kevin Swampillai, in his testimony in c

(Nov 1): Relatives of the financier accused by US prosecutors of playing a central role in siphoning more than US$3.5 billion ($4.9 billion) from Malaysia’s state investment fund are fighting attempts to seize assets acquired with misappropriated funds.

SINGAPORE (Oct 28): Trial of former BSI banker Yeo Jiawei, connected to the 1MDB scandal, will begin next Monday on Oct 31.

SINGAPORE (Oct 12): The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Tuesday landed a devastating one-two punch on Falcon Private Bank for breaches related to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

SINGAPORE (Oct 10): Two other former BSI bankers were charged in court on Monday for their alleged role in shifting money in and out of accounts belonging to Low Taek Jho, widely acknowledged as a key figure in the on-going 1MDB probe.

SINGAPORE (Aug 23): How would you celebrate your birthday if you were sitting on billions of dollars allegedly siphoned from a state-owned fund?

SINGAPORE (Aug 22): Leonardo DiCaprio has abruptly dropped out of hosting a US$33,400-per-guest ($45,200-per-guest) fundraiser lunch for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at his Hollywood Hills home – just days before the event scheduled o

SINGAPORE (Aug 1): Singapore's central bank on Monday formally launched a unit to fight money laundering, strengthening the financial hub's safeguards against illicit fund flows.

(July 28): On 22 June 2015, Xavier Justo, a 48-year-old retired Swiss banker, walked towards the front door of his brand new boutique hotel on Koh Samui, a tropical Thai island. He had spent the past three years building the luxurious white-stone complex