Malaysia on Tuesday said the U.S. government had returned some $57 million in fu...
FILE PHOTO: Motorcyclists pass a 1Malaysia Development Berhad billboard at the Tun Razak Exchange development in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/File Photo
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia on Tuesday said the U.S. government had returned some $57 million in funds recovered from 1MDB assets in the “first installment” of funds to be repatriated under a U.S. kleptocracy asset recovery initiative. The U.S. Department of Justice , in the biggest ever case in its anti-kleptocracy program, is pursuing billions of dollars it says were misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad , a state fund founded by former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak.
The $57 million repatriated to Malaysia was forfeited from Hollywood film production company Red Granite Pictures, which is linked to Najib’s stepson Riza Aziz, according to the Malaysian Attorney-General’s chambers . The DoJ is also in the process of remitting another $139 million, pending the sale of a Manhattan property linked to fugitive Malaysian financier, Low Taek Jho or Jho Low, the AGC said in a statement.
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