{"id":19999,"date":"2020-07-03T02:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/03\/us-government-seeks-to-seize-7m-warhol-artworks-linked-to-1mdb-scandal"},"modified":"2020-07-03T02:30:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T17:30:01","slug":"us-government-seeks-to-seize-7m-warhol-artworks-linked-to-1mdb-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19999","title":{"rendered":"US government seeks to seize $7m Warhol artworks linked to 1MDB scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Justice says art and Paris flat linked to accused Malaysian fund fraud mastermind Jho Low<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Justice has asked an American court to allow it to seize artwork including two Warhol paintings and a Basquiat drawing, as well as an apartment in Paris and millions of dollars held in Swiss bank accounts, as it continues to pursue assets allegedly linked to the multi-billion-dollar looting of Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.<\/p>\n<p>In documents filed with the US district court for the central district of California on Wednesday, officials from the DOJ\u2019s money laundering and asset forfeiture section claimed the artwork, property and money was owned or controlled by people it accuses of being involved in the plunder of 1MDB, including the accused mastermind of the fraud, Malaysian financier Jho Low.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/03\/us-government-seeks-to-seize-7m-warhol-artworks-linked-to-1mdb-scandal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Justice says art and Paris flat linked to accused Malaysian fund fraud mastermind Jho LowThe US Department of Justice has asked an American court to allow it to seize artwork including two Warhol paintings and a Basquiat drawing, as well &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"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":[68,41,70,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19999","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20000,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19999\/revisions\/20000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}