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1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB)

1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB)
1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB): A Malaysia-based sovereign wealth fund, 1MDB was established by the Malaysian government to drive strategic initiatives for the country’s long-term economic development. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, its primary focus areas included energy, real estate, tourism, and agribusiness, aiming to attract foreign investment and fund infrastructure projects. However, 1MDB gained international notoriety for a massive corruption scandal involving the alleged embezzlement of billions of dollars, leading to global investigations and its current liquidation.
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak at the Kuala Lumpur High Court in October. While Najib prepares for a move to house arrest, officials say Malaysia still faces tens of billions in losses from the 1MDB scandal. Photo: AP
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Malaysia still deep in 1MDB red as Najib heads home

A ballooning public shortfall reveals the lasting cost of the sovereign fund scandal, while government infighting erupts over royal clemency.

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Malaysia’s Najib loses bid to suspend 15-year 1MDB sentence on medical grounds

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Malaysia’s Najib ‘has no money’ to pay fine for house arrest, lawyer says

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Najib Razak’s fundraising in Malaysia draws 1 sen donations, mockery

Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, claims that supporters from Singapore, Brunei, Italy and Canada are willing to contribute to the fund.

A supporter of the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak stands outside Razak’s house in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. Photo: EPA
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak arrives at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex on October 30, 2024. Photo: AFP
A mobile police station is stationed outside the residence of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak where he is expected to serve the rest of his prison term under house arrest in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: AP
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Home at last? Why house arrest for Malaysia’s Najib is no done deal

The former PM has been granted house arrest, but an unpaid US$12 million fine and a second prison term stand in his way.

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Pending US$12.3 million house arrest fine keeps Malaysia’s Najib in prison

The former prime minister mulls how to pay the penalty as significant part of his assets and bank accounts remain frozen.

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Malaysia’s Najib Razak allowed to serve rest of jail term under house arrest

Given a ‘conditional pardon’, Najib has to settle his US$12.3 million fine before he can be transferred home to complete his sentence.

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Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak attends the verdict of his house arrest bid at Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex on December 22, 2025. Photo: Reuters
Police patrol cars are parked outside Najib Razak’s house in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. Photo: Reuters
A supporter (left) of Najib Razak speaks to the media outside the former prime minister’s house in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. Photo: EPA
Malaysia

Malaysian court acquits BN politician’s widow Zizie Izette after 7-year legal battle

The former actress had been accused of abetting her late husband, BN politician Bung Moktar Radin, in an alleged US$685,000 bribery case.

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Threat of Najib pardon gives Malaysian coalition new battle cry in Johor poll

A win for BN is a sign that Johoreans still love Najib, his son says, in a remark that has stirred up the spectre of 1MDB again.

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Anwar vows Malaysia to pursue Jho Low over 1MDB despite potential US pardon

Low is among 250 people that US President Donald Trump may pardon as part of celebrations to mark America’s 250th Independence Day.

Jho Low is the alleged mastermind behind the 1MDB scandal in Malaysia. Photo: Sam Tsang
Malaysia

Najib’s 1MDB plunder made Attila the Hun ‘look like a choirboy’: Malaysian judge

In his 809-page grounds of judgment, the judge who convicted the former prime minister said he was no ‘ignoramus’ misled by Jho Low.

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Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak attends a hearing at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on April 17, 2024. Photo: AFP
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Singapore says Jho Low arrest warrants still in force despite US clemency bid

Several 1MDB-linked assets remain seized in Singapore, including those worth about US$78 million tied to Low and his family.

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Malaysian police probe reports of Jho Low’s secret 1MDB meetings in Kuala Lumpur

An online portal news portal quoted sources as claiming that Low attended the meetings under the protection of the Chinese delegation.

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Anwar says Malaysia won’t support Jho Low’s Trump pardon bid

The Malaysian businessman, indicted in the US, has denied wrongdoing but remains at large.

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American fashion model Gigi Hadid and Jho Low (centre) attend an event in New York City in 2014. Photo: Getty Images for Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation/AFP
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High stakes, low odds: why Trump pardon is unlikely for 1MDB’s Jho Low

The request appears unlikely to succeed because Low has never appeared in a US court, stood trial or accepted responsibility, analysts say.

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Jho Low poses for a photo at his Jynwel Capital office in Hong Kong on March 11, 2015. Photo: SCMP
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Malaysia’s Jho Low seeking Trump pardon for 1MDB fraud

The fugitive financier is accused of being the architect of a scheme to siphon at least US$4.5 billion from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund.

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Malaysia’s Najib ends house-arrest appeal over 1MDB-linked prison sentence

The withdrawal ends the former prime minister’s attempt to serve out his SRC sentence at home after his jail term was halved in 2024.

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Malaysia court orders ex-PM Najib to pay US$1.3 billion to 1MDB unit

Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled that Najib was liable for losses incurred by ‌SRC International, a former subsidiary of 1MDB.

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Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak is escorted by prison guards at Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex, on the day he attends the verdict of his house arrest bid, at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 22, 2025. Photo: Reuters
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Malaysia’s Umno chief denies he ‘sidelined’ Najib to save himself

Ahmad Zahid, who has been cleared of corruption charges, says the party has ‘never wavered’ from its position of supporting its ex-leader.

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Malaysia’s Umno seeks Najib’s pardon amid 1MDB scandal, but stay in coalition

Umno divisions demand justice for the jailed ex-PM, yet leadership rejects calls to exit unity government ahead of the annual assembly.

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Video | Disgraced ex-Malaysian PM Najib guilty in final 1MDB case

The disgraced former prime minister was found guilty in the final criminal trial stemming from the corrupt 1MDB fund.

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With 1MDB verdict due, will Malaysia’s Najib have to ‘prepare for the worst’?

The High Court will rule on abuse of power and money laundering charges, with Najib facing the prospect of lengthy prison terms if found guilty.

Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak attends the verdict of his house arrest bid at Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex in Malaysia on Monday. Photo: Reuters
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Najib’s children lament Malaysian court ruling – ‘we thought he was coming home’

The ex-prime minister has lost his case to have his imprisonment commuted to house arrest based on a supposed royal decree.

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Malaysia to get back US$30 million worth of fine art linked to 1MDB scandal

The 12 artworks, including pieces by Picasso and Matisse, were bought by a former lawyer for the state investment fund.

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Najib’s wife cleared as Malaysia drops money laundering, tax evasion appeal

The prosecution said it could not definitively prove that Rosmah Mansor committed the offences.

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Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak with his wife Rosmah Mansor in 2018. Photo: AP
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Fugitive Jho Low’s sister and associate ordered to pay US$2.8 billion to 1MDB

The judge noted that May Lin and associate Eric Tan failed to appear in court, resulting in a massive default judgment in the ongoing 1MDB suit.

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Jho Low, CEO of Jynwel Capitial Limited, is interviewed at his office in Hong Kong in 2015. Photo: SCMP
Singapore

Standard Chartered faces US$2.7 billion 1MDB suit in Singapore

The lawsuit alleges Standard Chartered enabled acts of fraud leading to US$2.7 billion in losses over a decade. The bank plans to appeal.

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From Malaysia to Bangladesh, Asia’s dirty money finds a home in UK property

Investigators from Kuala Lumpur to Dhaka are once again focusing on Britain’s role as a global laundromat for kleptocrats.

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