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1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 5: The Price of Belief
Season 4
Episode 5
Published 1 month ago
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After the scandal broke open, the accounting began. But accounting is slower than theft. It is narrower. It is often less satisfying. By the time courts, prosecutors, and regulators started closing in, the money had already been turned into houses, art, retainers, luxury goods, and political damage spread across several countries.The question was no longer whether 1MDB had been looted. The question was what could still be recovered, and what that recovery would say about the systems that failed. In July two thousand twenty, a Malaysian court convicted Najib Razak in a case connected to SRC International, a former 1MDB subsidiary. He was sentenced to twelve years in prison and fined two hundred and ten million ringgit.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/1malaysia-development-berhad
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