{"id":27743,"date":"2021-02-03T19:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/malaysian-fugitive-jho-low-tried-to-buy-golden-passport-to-eu-report-says"},"modified":"2021-02-03T19:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:46:36","slug":"malaysian-fugitive-tried-to-buy-golden-passport-to-eu-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27743","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian fugitive tried to buy &#8216;golden passport&#8217; to EU, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jho Low, wanted in connection with $4.5bn theft, tried to buy off-the-shelf citizenship from Cyprus, report states<\/p>\n<p>A Malaysian fugitive wanted in connection with one of the biggest frauds in history attempted to buy a \u201cgolden passport\u201d that would have granted him unrestricted access to the EU, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/en\/investigations\/a-key-player-in-malaysias-biggest-ever-corruption-scandal-found-sanctuary-in-cyprus-with-help-from-a-major-london-firm\">according to a report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jho Low, who is sought by law enforcement for his alleged role in the theft of more than $4.5bn (\u00a33.3bn) from the government and people of Malaysia, sought the help of a passport brokerage called Henley &amp; Partners to help him buy off-the-shelf citizenship from Cyprus, the report states.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/malaysian-fugitive-jho-low-tried-to-buy-golden-passport-to-eu-report-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jho Low, wanted in connection with $4.5bn theft, tried to buy off-the-shelf citizenship from Cyprus, report statesA Malaysian fugitive wanted in connection with one of the biggest frauds in history attempted to buy a \u201cgolden passport\u201d that would have g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1880,"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":[68,41,221,530,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-european-union","category-malaysia","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\/27743","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\/1880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27745,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27743\/revisions\/27745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}