{"id":21297,"date":"2020-08-03T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/340m-in-london-law-firms-account-suspected-of-1mdb-connection"},"modified":"2020-08-03T14:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T05:00:32","slug":"340m-in-london-law-firms-account-suspected-of-1mdb-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21297","title":{"rendered":"$340m in London law firm&#8217;s account suspected of 1MDB connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Money in Clyde &amp; Co\u2019s bank account linked to money allegedly embezzled from Malaysian fund<\/p>\n<p>Investigators probing one of the world\u2019s largest financial frauds have said they suspect $340m (\u00a3255m) held in the bank account of a major London law firm is linked to money allegedly embezzled from the Malaysian state investment fund 1MDB.<\/p>\n<p>According to court papers, Malaysia\u2019s anti-corruption agency is urgently trying to prevent City firm Clyde &amp; Co from releasing the large sum of money, which they suspect can be traced to proceeds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/25\/1mdb-scandal-explained-a-tale-of-malaysias-missing-billions\">multibillion-dollar 1MDB fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/340m-in-london-law-firms-account-suspected-of-1mdb-connection\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money in Clyde &amp; Co\u2019s bank account linked to money allegedly embezzled from Malaysian fundInvestigators probing one of the world\u2019s largest financial frauds have said they suspect $340m (\u00a3255m) held in the bank account of a major London law firm is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"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":[68,41,6,70,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-malaysia","category-uk-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\/21297","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21298,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297\/revisions\/21298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}