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The 2015 reporting is the hinge the way Carreyrou is for Theranos: after it, foreign prosecutors and banks had a public map. DOJ's 2016 and later complaints are among the largest kleptocracy actions the department has filed. They sought to forfeit specific assets, not to try Najib in a U.S. criminal court. Settlements returned value to Malaysia over subsequent years.
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1MDB scandal · paras 1
Sarawak Report and the Journal, using leaked documents and bank trails, made the fund a global English-language story in 2015. Malaysian official responses at the time included a claimed Saudi donation to explain money in Najib's accounts -- a theory later courts and foreign complaints did not accept as a full answer.
1MDB scandal · paras 2
The 2015 reporting is the hinge the way Carreyrou is for Theranos: after it, foreign prosecutors and banks had a public map. DOJ's 2016 and later complaints are among the largest kleptocracy actions the department has filed. They sought to forfeit specific assets, not to try Najib in a U.S. criminal court. Settlements returned value to Malaysia over subsequent years.
1MDB scandal · paras 2
Leissner's 2018 guilty plea and the 2020 Goldman resolutions (including a U.S. FCPA-related package near $2.9 billion with other jurisdictions) are the Wall Street legal ending. Roger Ng, another former Goldman banker, was convicted in Brooklyn in 2022 on FCPA and money-laundering counts.
1MDB scandal · paras 1
The SRC case is the conviction this atlas records under status 'convicted' for the political principal. Other Malaysian 1MDB-related trials and charges continued on separate indictments. The DOJ forfeiture complaints, the Goldman resolutions, the Leissner plea, and the Malaysian SRC judgment are the primary public sources. They describe a multi-jurisdiction theft-and-laundering case, not a single missing invoice.
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Leissner's 2018 guilty plea and the 2020 Goldman resolutions (including a U.S. FCPA-related package near $2.9 billion with other jurisdictions) are the Wall Street legal ending. Roger Ng, another former Goldman banker, was convicted in Brooklyn in 2022 on FCPA and money-laundering counts.
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The SRC case is the conviction this atlas records under status 'convicted' for the political principal. Other Malaysian 1MDB-related trials and charges continued on separate indictments. The DOJ forfeiture complaints, the Goldman resolutions, the Leissner plea, and the Malaysian SRC judgment are the primary public sources. They describe a multi-jurisdiction theft-and-laundering case, not a single missing invoice.
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