1MDB scandal: bribery and bigamy loom large in ex-Goldman Sachs banker’s trial

Roger Ng pleads not guilty to helping launder millions of dollars looted from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund

On the first day of a trial over the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian government fund, US prosecutors on Monday accused a former Goldman Sachs banker of taking $35m in kickbacks as his defense team slammed the prosecution’s star witness as a bigamist who used their client as a fall guy.

Roger Ng, Goldman’s former head of investment banking in Malaysia, is charged with conspiring to launder money and violating anti-bribery law in his dealings with Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund.

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