The Guardian | 1MDB financier Jho Low seeks pardon from Donald Trump by Reuters

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Jho Low, the fugitive Malaysian financier at the centre of the multibillion‑dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, has reportedly filed a request for a U.S. presidential pardon from Donald Trump in an effort to have the corruption and money‑laundering charges against him in the United States and Malaysia dismissed. Low, who has consistently denied any wrongdoing and whose current location is unknown, is accused of helping misappropriate at least $4.5 billion from the sovereign wealth fund; he previously agreed to surrender a private jet and luxury properties in a 2019 deal with U.S. authorities. Malaysian officials, including task‑force chair Johari Abdul Ghani, oppose the pardon and are calling for U.S. assistance in locating Low for further investigation, while a temporary lift of an Interpol red notice has been used to facilitate the return of assets to Malaysia.

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#JhoLow #DonaldTrump #1MDB #TaekJhoLow #JohariAbdulGhani #AnwarIbrahim

馬來西亞1MDB公司貪腐案再重判，前首相納吉遭判15年有期徒刑

Pras Mchel, a onetime rapper from the Fugees, went to prison in the States for fourteen years for illegal lobbying he undertook on behalf of the criminal conspirators in the 1MDB case, where a Malaysian sovereign development fund was defrauded of more than US$4.5bn. Michel received US$100m from the now-fugitive financier Jho Taek Low. If he had declared his activities as an agent of a foreign power, it might have raised suspicions about where the money was coming from, but he would then legally have been safe as houses. Fourteen years is one year less in prison than the actual mastermind of the plan, ex-PM Najib Razak, who was this week sentenced to fifteen more years, following a reduction in his sentence on an earlier conviction from twelve to six years.

You are now caught up on one of the weirdest and most consequential cases in our regional neighbourhood that it seems nobody in Australia has ever heard of. #1mdb #mspol