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(Left) the VVIP jailbird and his “pal” Jho Low
1MDB kleptocrat Jho Low hiding in Myanmar?
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20, 2024: Disgraced and shameless former premier Najib “1MDB” Razak’s lawyer Shafee Abdullah believes fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, a.k.a Jho Low, is hiding in Myanmar.
This is certainly news for the Royal Malaysia Police (Polis di-Raja Malaysia), if they are really interested, to get Interpol help quickly to try and locate and have him repatriated.
Certainly that would not be difficult to trace, if he is really in Myanmar, assuming he is living like a King with his billions of ill-gotten gains.
No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the matter:
Najib’s lawyer believes Jho Low hiding in Myanmar
-19 Nov 2024, 08:36 PM
Shafee Abdullah says he reached this conclusion based on testimony from former 1MDB in-house lawyer Jasmine Loo in court.
Businessman Low Taek Jho was previously said to be hiding in China, Dubai, and Macau. (File pic)
KUALA LUMPUR: Senior lawyer Shafee Abdullah believes fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, is hiding in Myanmar.
Shafee, former prime minister Najib Razak’s lawyer, said he reached this conclusion based on testimony from former 1MDB in-house lawyer Jasmine Loo in court.
“There’s nothing stopping him (Low). Initially he was said to be in China, Dubai, and then Macau,” he said at a town hall session with reporters this evening.
“But from testimony after I grilled Loo, I think he is in Myanmar … Loo was travelling with a Myanmar passport, and she confirmed that it was Jho Low who arranged for it.”
Loo, 50, was the 50th prosecution witness in Najib’s 1MDB trial at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.
In April, she testified that she had negotiated her surrender with the authorities and began sending representations to the Malaysian government while she was in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2021. She returned to Malaysia last year.
She claimed that Low had arranged for her safe travel to Myanmar, and that the border guards there did not stamp her Malaysian passport upon arrival.
Loo was then taken to Yangon and given a fraudulent passport to live there freely under the disguise of a Myanmar citizen.
She testified that she foresaw issues with local authorities due to her unstamped Malaysian passport and fraudulent passport if she were to leave the country.
In May, the Kuala Lumpur High Court heard that Low was the “puppet master” in determining how 1MDB made its investments, despite holding no position in the GLC.
This was according to testimony from MACC investigating officer Nur Aida Arifin during cross-examination by Shafee in Najib’s corruption trial.
Malaysian and US investigators estimate a total of US$4.5 billion was siphoned from 1MDB, which was established in 2009.
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