{"id":41716,"date":"2022-02-14T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/14\/1mdb-goldman-sachs-roger-ng-corruption-trial"},"modified":"2022-02-15T06:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T21:42:36","slug":"us-trial-begins-for-ex-goldman-sachs-banker-accused-in-1mdb-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41716","title":{"rendered":"1MDB scandal: bribery and bigamy loom large in ex-Goldman Sachs banker\u2019s trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Ng pleads not guilty to helping launder millions of dollars looted from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of a trial over the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian government fund, US prosecutors on Monday accused a former Goldman Sachs banker of taking $35m in kickbacks as his defense team slammed the prosecution\u2019s star witness as a bigamist who used their client as a fall guy.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Ng, Goldman\u2019s former head of investment banking in Malaysia, is charged with conspiring to launder money and violating anti-bribery law in his dealings with Malaysia\u2019s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/14\/1mdb-goldman-sachs-roger-ng-corruption-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Ng pleads not guilty to helping launder millions of dollars looted from Malaysian sovereign wealth fundOn the first day of a trial over the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian government fund, US prosecutors on Monday accused a former Gold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[68,41,291,6,578,70,1298,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-banking","category-business","category-goldman-sachs","category-malaysia","category-new-york","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\/41716","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41720,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716\/revisions\/41720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}