Tim Leissner

SINGAPORE (June 28): In a private dining room at Singapore’s Taste Paradise restaurant, over a meal of abalone and suckling pig, two Goldman Sachs Group Inc. bankers were explaining a US$1.75 billion ($2.38 billion) bond offering to six executives of a

(Nov 8): Two men with links to Low Taek Jho launched a bid last year to buy a controlling stake in a bank in Mauritius, according to The Wall Street Journal.

(Oct 4): Tim Leissner, a senior Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker before leaving the firm in the wake of its work with Malaysia’s embattled investment fund, has been barred from the US securities industry for failing to provide documents to a regulator.

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.

SINGAPORE (March 13): The Monetary Authority of Singapore plans to slap lifetime ban on two former private bankers for their roles in helping money transfers linked to scandal-hit 1Malaysia Development Berhad.

SINGAPORE (Dec 2): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has charged Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Branch (SCB) and Coutts & Co with the respective financial penalties of $5.2 million and $2.4 million, for breaching its anti-money laundering (AML