{"id":58226,"date":"2023-09-10T03:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/09\/the-natwest-boss-the-missing-malaysian-billions-and-the-damning-email"},"modified":"2023-09-10T03:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T18:27:29","slug":"the-natwest-boss-the-missing-malaysian-billions-and-the-damning-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58226","title":{"rendered":"The NatWest boss, the missing Malaysian billions and the damning email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Haythornthwaite stonewalled investigator on the trail of \u2018world\u2019s biggest financial scandal\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/sep\/09\/new-natwest-boss-rick-haythornthwaite-saudi-company-petro-saudi-1mdb\">Read more: New Natwest boss worked for oil firm under investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a summer\u2019s day in 2009 on the sparkling waters of the French Riviera, the superyacht Alfa Nero was playing host to a crucial meeting that, it is alleged, was part of a plot that triggered one of the world\u2019s biggest financial scandals.<\/p>\n<p>Najib Razak, then prime minister of Malaysia, met the young financier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/11\/1mdb-scandal-court-najib-razak-malaysia-picassos-glass-piano-missing-billions\" title=\"\">Jho Low<\/a> and the bosses of the international oil firm PetroSaudi International to discuss the potential of a partnership involving his country\u2019s wealth fund 1MDB. The bones of a deal were quickly agreed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/09\/the-natwest-boss-the-missing-malaysian-billions-and-the-damning-email\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Haythornthwaite stonewalled investigator on the trail of \u2018world\u2019s biggest financial scandal\u2019Read more: New Natwest boss worked for oil firm under investigationOn a summer\u2019s day in 2009 on the sparkling waters of the French Riviera, the superyacht &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2681,"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":[68,41,6,70,341,449,398,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-malaysia","category-najib-razak","category-oil","category-saudi-arabia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58226","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\/2681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58227,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58226\/revisions\/58227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}