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Jho Low ordered to return mum’s RM5.5m ‘flawless’ diamonds bought with 1MDB funds
KUALA LUMPUR, July 23, 2024: A federal judge in Los Angeles yesterday ordered Low Taek Jho (a.k.a Jho Low) return his mum’s trio of “flawless” diamonds.
US district judge Dale Fischer ruled the diamonds were bought in the looting of billions of dollars from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). The ring is valued at about US$1.17 million (RM5.5 million) and the earrings were about US$628,000, (RM3 million).
1MDB was mismanaged by disgraced and shameless former prime minister Najib “1MDB” Razak who is now serving his jail sentence in prison.
No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the order for Jho Low to return the diamonds:
Jho Low told to forfeit mum’s trio of ‘flawless’ diamonds
-23 Jul 2024, 08:03 AM
Judge rules they were purchased in the looting of billions of dollars from 1MDB.
Businessman Low Taek Jho remains a fugitive from prosecution by both US authorities and Malaysia. (File pic)
KUALA LUMPUR: Low Taek Jho, the alleged mastermind of the looting of the 1MDB fund, was ordered to forfeit a trio of flawless diamonds he bought for his mother that were from the jeweller who’s designed for celebrities like Beyonce and Adele.
A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday ordered the fugitive financier, known as Jho Low, to surrender claims to a 7.35 carat diamond ring as well as matching diamond earrings both greater than three carats.
The judge ruled they were purchased in the looting of billions of dollars from the fund. The ring is valued at about US$1.17 million and the earrings are worth about US$628,000, the US says.
The three diamonds were created by prestigious New York-based designer Lorraine Schwartz, who US prosecutors said also made a US$23 million necklace – with a pink diamond big enough to be a paperweight – and personally delivered it to Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former prime minister Najib Razak, according to court testimony in the US.
US district judge Dale Fischer in Los Angeles described the diamonds as a gift from Low to his mother Evelyn and ruled that the jewels were criminal proceeds of the 1MDB fraud.
Low remains a fugitive from prosecution by both US authorities and Malaysia. He reached a deal in June with the US justice department to return more than US$100 million of assets which the government alleges he acquired using funds from 1MDB.
He was charged along with former Goldman Sachs Group Inc banker Roger Ng, who was convicted at trial in New York in 2022.
Meanwhile, in a related case, Jasmine Loo, a former lawyer for 1MDB, was ordered Monday to forfeit a Pablo Picasso pencil sketch drawing titled Trois Femmes Nues et Buste d’Homme, which she purchased for about US$1.4 million.
Loo, who was charged by authorities in Malaysia and testified against Najib this year, also agreed to surrender US$25,000 held in a Swiss bank account, according to an order signed Monday by Fischer.
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