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The money trail The US government has identified over US$1 billion in assets that it says were looted

ment has identified over US$1 billion in assets that it says were looted from 1Malaysia
Development Berhad (1MDB). Its lawsuit tracks how the money was moved and where it ended up.

The shell game:


The Aabar-bvi phase The US$1 billion is part of US$3.5 billion that was looted from IMDB since 2009, says the US Department of Justice in its lawsuit to seize the
assets. This, it said, was done by first channelling funds to several shell companies such as Good Star Ltd based in Seychelles, Tanore Finance
About US$1.3 billion out of two bond offerings guaranteed Corporation in Singapore, and Aabar Investments PJS Limited in the British Virgin Islands. These occurred over three principal phases:
by 1MDB and Abu Dhabi state fund International Petroleum
Investment Company (IPIC) was wired to Aabar Investments
PJS Ltd, which had a name deceptively similar to IPIC
subsidiary Aabar Investments PJS.
These funds were transferred to, among other places, a The Good Star phase The Tanore phase
Singapore bank account controlled by Mr Eric Tan Kim Between 2009 and 2011, under the pretense of In 2013, over US$1.26 billion was diverted out of
Loong, a Malaysian national and an associate of Malaysian investing in a joint venture between 1MDB and PetroSaudi US$3 billion in principal that 1MDB raised through a third
financier Jho Low. International a private Saudi oil extraction company bond offering in March 2013. Days after the bond sale, the
In addition, Mr Riza Aziz, the stepson of Malaysian Prime US$1 billion was fraudulently transferred from 1MDB to a money was diverted to a bank account in Singapore held
Minister Najib Razak, received about US$238 million, used to Swiss bank account held in the name of Good Star Ltd by Tanore Finance Corporation, of which Mr Tan was the
fund his movie production company, Red Granite Pictures. owned by Mr Low. recorded owner.

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NOTE: All figures in US dollars.


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