Najib was convicted in 2020 on 1MDB-related charges. The federal court upheld the conviction, requiring him to serve a 12 year jail sentence.
August 24, 2022Total 1MDB assets amounting to $4.9bn have now been returned. Asset recovery is still being pursued in the US, UAE, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, among other countries.
November 22, 2021A US district court judge said it "strains credulity" for Goldman Sachs to contend it had no indication that funds were being siphoned from 1MDB.
July 2, 2021Among those named in the lawsuits are Deutsche Bank, Coutts, JPMorgan, former prime minister Najib Razak, and Malaysian financier Jho Low.
May 11, 2021Malaysia’s Finance Ministry is also negotiating a settlement with KPMG, which was replaced by Deloitte as auditor of 1MDB in 2013.
March 5, 2021