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A 2015 document leak reported in The Edge, Sarawak Report, and The Wall Street Journal showed that Malaysia's then-Prime Minister Najib Razak had channeled over RM 2.67 billion (about US$700 million) into his personal bank accounts from 1MDB, a government-run strategic development company. [5]
The Edge Media Group is the publisher of business and financial publications in Malaysia and Singapore, with headquarters in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.It is divided into four subsidiaries: The Edge Communications Sdn Bhd, publisher of The Edge Malaysia – a Business and investment weekly publication launched in 1994 available in both print and digital formats and The Edge CEO Morning ...
The 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal is an ongoing political scandal in Malaysia, [1] in which then-Prime Minister Najib Razak was accused of channeling over RM 2.67 billion (approximately US$700 million) into his personal bank accounts from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a government-run strategic development company.
On 28 July 2020, the High Court convicted former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak on all seven counts of abuse of power, money laundering and criminal breach of trust, becoming the first Prime Minister of Malaysia to be convicted of corruption, [65] [66] and was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment and fined RM210 million. [67] [68]
1MDB scandal was a large corruption, bribery and money laundering scandal which began in 2009 in Malaysia but became global in scope and was exposed in 2015. It was as described as "one of the world's greatest financial scandals" [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and declared by the United States Department of Justice as the "largest kleptocracy case to date" in 2016.
Exactly a year later, iMoney received US$500,000 in seed funding from Asia Venture Group. [5] Later, they received a US$140,000 (RM500,000) grant from Cradle Fund — an agency under the Malaysian Ministry of Finance, [6] and US$2 million from a group of venture capital funds including Jungle Ventures and 500 Startups. [7]
She became a columnist on The Edge (Malaysia) from 2009 to 2010. She shifted her career focus in 2009 when she became the joint managing director, with her husband, to Originalo Sdn Bhd from 2009 until 2014. She is also the chairman and CEO of Light Cibles Malaysia, an international lighting design consultancy firm since 2011.
Khazanah is a company incorporated in Malaysia, and operates under the provisions of the Malaysian Companies Act. [12] [13] It is neither a government agency nor a statutory board, rather it is a national institution that served as a trustee that manages government-owned commercial assets and also investing in multiple high-tech and strategic sectors.