{"id":53273,"date":"2023-03-10T04:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/09\/roger-ng-goldman-sachs-banker-malaysia-1mdb-fraud"},"modified":"2023-03-10T04:11:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T19:11:39","slug":"ex-goldman-banker-given-10-years-in-prison-for-role-in-1mdb-fraud-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53273","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Goldman banker given 10 years in prison for role in 1MDB fraud scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Ng, 50, found guilty by Brooklyn jury in massive embezzlement linked to Malaysian state investment fund<\/p>\n<p>Roger Ng, the former Goldman Sachs banker at the center of the multi-billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/1mdb\">1MDB<\/a> embezzlement scandal, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday, placing a capstone on one of the largest and most bizarre financial frauds of the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>A jury in Brooklyn, New York, found Ng, 50, from Malaysia, guilty of violating US anti-bribery laws, money laundering and illegally skirting Goldman\u2019s accounting controls, after a seven-week trial.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/09\/roger-ng-goldman-sachs-banker-malaysia-1mdb-fraud\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Ng, 50, found guilty by Brooklyn jury in massive embezzlement linked to Malaysian state investment fundRoger Ng, the former Goldman Sachs banker at the center of the multi-billion 1MDB embezzlement scandal, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1067,"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":[68,41,6,70,1298,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-business","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\/53273","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\/1067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53282,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53273\/revisions\/53282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}