Low Taek Jho (Jho Low)

SINGAPORE (Nov 10): Singapore’s Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) has confirmed that it has been investigating 1MDB mastermind Low Taek Jho, popularly known as Jho Low, along with several of his associates, for over a year.

SINGAPORE (Nov 9): Ex-BSI wealth planner Yeo Jiawei was privy to information swirling about Malaysia’s top officials because he was receiving news directly from Jho Low, said key prosecution witness Jose Renato Carvalho Pinto in court on Wednesday.

SINGAPORE (Nov 8): Yeo Jiawei saw a distinct “upgrade of his lifestyle” from mid-2014, after he left BSI and went to work for Low Taek Jho and Mohamed Ahmed Badawy Al-Husseiny, two of the key players in the scandal that has engulfed 1Malaysia Developm

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?