Low Taek Jho (Jho Low)

(July 4): Malaysian authorities have charged former leader Najib Razak with corruption and criminal breach of trust in connection with a multibillion-dollar scandal surrounding state fund 1MDB.

SINGAPORE (June 29): Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) has to set aside RM44.6308 billion ($15.1 billion) from now to pay the remaining interest on four 1MDB bonds and to redeem the principal sums when they expire.

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

(June 22): Malaysia will seek to recoup US$4.5 billion ($6.1 billion) of funds that were potentially lost through 1MDB, as well as fees paid to Goldman Sachs Group, according to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

LANGKAWI (June 21): Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak says he shouldn’t be blamed for the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, and declares he knows nothing about money from the state fund appearing in his personal account.

(June 16): Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has rejected an offer by Low Taek Jho to drop his claim to assets frozen by US authorities in return for immunity from prosecution over the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, the Wall Street Journal (WS

KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): Malaysian authorities investigating scandal-hit state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) are considering charging former prime minister Najib Razak with money laundering and misappropriation of property, a source familiar wit

SINGAPORE (June 14): The US Department of Justice (DoJ) described Eric Tan Kim Loong, 40, as an associate of Low Taek Jho or Jho Low.

(June 13): Malaysia’s attorney general will start his review of 1MDB investigation papers, signalling that charges linked to the troubled state fund may be imminent.

SINGAPORE (June 8): Singapore authorities said they issued warrants of arrest for Low Taek Jho and Eric Tan Kim Loong back in April and May 2016, following investigations of 1MDB-related fund flows through the financial system here that began in March 201