A judge described the 1MDB scandal's plunder as so vast it made Attila the Hun look like a choirboy, in his 809-page judgment convicting former Malaysian PM Najib Razak. Najib is already jailed for a separate case linked to the fund.
Singapore police confirmed active arrest warrants and Interpol red notices for fugitive financier Jho Low and his associate Tan Kim Loong, both implicated in the 1MDB scandal. Seized assets linked to Low and his family in Singapore are valued at approximately US$127 million.
Jho Low, fugitive financier at the center of the $4.5bn 1MDB scandal, seeks a US presidential pardon for corruption and money laundering charges, prompting opposition from Malaysia's taskforce chair Johari Abdul Ghani.
