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Payments were reportedly made to three public relations firms and a digital search firm.
More than US$818,000 (RM3,431,510) was disbursed to four firms for work done on behalf of the flamboyant Malaysian better known as Jho Low. The bulk of it, US$544,000 (RM2,282,080), went to New York-based public relations firm, PRCG Haggerty owned by James Haggerty.
PRCG Haggerty’s services reportedly included engaging “Australian partners” to provide material to news organisations Down Under and Asia covering the 1MDB scandal.
Other companies paid included London-based PHA Group and in New York, Marathon Strategies, a digital search and analytics firm called Five Blocks which got US$210,000 (RM880,000) to provide Low with “digital reputation management”.
Low has been charged in absentia in the US with laundering billions of dollars stolen from 1MDB, together with former Goldman Sachs bankers Tim Leissner and Roger Ng, another Malaysian currently waiting to be extradited from here to the US.
Low and his father Tan Sri Larry Low also face similar charges in the Malaysian court.
Putrajaya has roped in Interpol’s aid to bring him back here to face prosecution.
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