The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is working to recover around $1.7bn (£1.3bn, €1.5bn) in assets linked to an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (Mas) has fined Credit Suisse and United Overseas Bank (UOB) and issued prohibition orders against three people following a two-year investigation into scandal-plagued wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
Italian prosecutors are investigating a former Emirati sovereign wealth fund official over allegations of insider trading in UniCredit shares in the Malaysian 1MDB scandal, which has led to a crackdown of a number Swiss banks.
Switzerland’s financial regulator is continuing its money laundering investigation into UBS Group and three other private banks in relation to Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.
US authorities are planning to file criminal charges against Malaysian financier Jho Low in connection with the stricken sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the Wall Street Journal reported.
Former Goldman Sachs director Tim Leissner has been banned from working in Singapore’s financial services industry for 10 years for his involvement with stricken Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, with further prohibition orders expected.
Switzerland’s financial regulator has fined Coutts & Co, which counts the Queen among its clients, for violating money-laundering rules and illegally profiting from transactions associated with 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
The former BSI banker Yeo Jaiwei, ‘sentenced beyond the norm’ for witness tampering by a Singapore court, used a Seychelles-based company to spend $8.2m (£10m, €7.7m) on Australian Gold Coast property, the Guardian has reported.
The first westerner to be charged in connection with the 1MDB scandal has been sentenced to 28 weeks in jail and fined S$128,000 (£73,352, $89,174, €84,235) by a Singapore court.
Former BSI banker Yeo Jaiwei has been found guilty of four charges of witness tampering by a Singapore court as part of the investigations into the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) money laundering scandal.
Former BSI Singapore director Yvonne Seah has been sentenced to two weeks in prison and fined S$10,000 (£5,553, $6,943, €6,632) as part of the investigation into 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is looking to introduce an ethics module in exams taken by financial advisers and capital markets intermediaries, in the wake of the 1MDB scandal.
