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Tom Wright @TomWrightAsia
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These are the three questions the Finance Ministry wants Najib to answer on 1MDB. What we know so far on each question is in this thread. But only Jho Low has the entire picture. #billiondollarwhale
1) Of the $1.83B invested in PetroSaudi, at least $1B allegedly flowed to Good Star, a Seychelles shell company controlled by Jho Low. He used some of this to purchase mansions, fund partying, and gambling, and to buy a Bombardier jet, according to the DOJ. #billiondollarwhale /2
Low-controlled shell companies later transferred ownership of some properties to Riza Aziz, Najib’s stepson, according to the DOJ. Some of the money went to buy jewelry from a supplier to Rosmah. #billiondollarwhale /3
2) Of the $3.5B for power plants, around $1.4B went to an offshore company that was meant to look like Abu Dhabi fund Aabar. According to DOJ, Low used some of this for a stake in EMI Music Publishing and to finance The Wolf of Wall Street. #billiondollarwhale /4
3) Of the $3B meant for a new financial center in KL, around $1.5 moved via an array of offshore entities, the DOJ says. One of them, Tanore, allegedly sent $681M to Najib’s account for politics. Some was used to pay for a $27M pink diamond for Rosmah, the DOJ alleges. /5
Even more of the $1.83B from the first phase was lost, and, added together, the DOJ estimates at least $4.5B is missing from 1MDB. But that doesn’t take into account $1B or so that KWAP lent to 1MDB unit SRC. The hole could be as much as $5.5B or more. #billiondollarwhale /6
Anyone who wants answers to these questions can read here: justice.gov/archives/opa/p… #billiondollarwhale /7
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