{"id":21082,"date":"2020-07-28T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T06:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/25\/1mdb-scandal-explained-a-tale-of-malaysias-missing-billions"},"modified":"2020-07-28T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T06:43:37","slug":"1mdb-scandal-explained-a-tale-of-malaysias-missing-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21082","title":{"rendered":"1MDB scandal explained: a tale of Malaysia&#8217;s missing billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged misuse of the government fund has brought out tales of lavish spending, mass sackings and a long search for truth<\/p>\n<p>Originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jul\/28\/1mdb-inside-story-worlds-biggest-financial-scandal-malaysia\">1MDB<\/a> \u2013 an abbreviation of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (which means limited) \u2013 was nothing more than a Malaysian state fund, set up in 2009 to promote development through foreign investment and partnerships. The then prime minister, Najib Razak, was its chairman.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/25\/1mdb-scandal-explained-a-tale-of-malaysias-missing-billions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged misuse of the government fund has brought out tales of lavish spending, mass sackings and a long search for truthOriginally 1MDB \u2013 an abbreviation of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (which means limited) \u2013 was nothing more than a Malaysian sta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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":[68,41,70,341,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-najib-razak","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\/21082","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21083,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21082\/revisions\/21083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}