Low Taek Jho

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

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

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 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.

SINGAPORE (July 21): Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, gambled away millions of dollars which he had misappropriated from Malaysian state development fund 1MDB at Las Vegas casinos, according to the US Department of Justice.

SINGAPORE (June 10): Even in Asia’s cutthroat world of wealth management, the news of a mass defection at RBS Coutts, venerable bankers to the British royals, came as a shock.

SINGAPORE (May 12): Former BSI banker Yeo Jia Wei, currently at the centre of money laundering investigations, had a seventh charge levelled against him today.