{"id":10632,"date":"2019-11-01T02:46:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/31\/us-strikes-deal-malaysian-fugitive-jho-low-1mdb"},"modified":"2019-11-01T02:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:46:15","slug":"us-strikes-deal-with-fugitive-jho-low-to-recoup-almost-1bn-stolen-from-1mdb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10632","title":{"rendered":"US strikes deal with fugitive Jho Low to recoup almost $1bn stolen from 1MDB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian financier will forfeit luxury boutique hotel in Beverly Hills and properties in New York and London valued at $700m<\/p>\n<p>The US justice jepartment has struck a deal with the fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low to recoup close to $1bn of money taken from the investment fund 1MDB \u2013 the largest sum recovered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/criminal-mlars\">Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative <\/a>established a decade ago to counter international corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Low, who is believed to be living in China and remains subject to an Interpol red alert, is accused of orchestrating the theft of $4.4bn from 1MDB, a development fund connected to Malaysia\u2019s then prime minister, Najib Razak.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/31\/us-strikes-deal-malaysian-fugitive-jho-low-1mdb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian financier will forfeit luxury boutique hotel in Beverly Hills and properties in New York and London valued at $700mThe US justice jepartment has struck a deal with the fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low to recoup close to $1bn of money take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,41,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10633,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10632\/revisions\/10633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}