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M'Sia is looking for the delivery of ex-Goldman Banker over 1MDB scandal

The former chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Tim Leissner, had guilty of his role in the 1MDB fraud. (File picture)
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Malaysia is looking for the delivery of the former Goldman Sachs partner Tim Leissner from the USA because of his role in the 1MDB scandal.

Capting with sources and documents, the Wall Street Journal reported that Putrajaya submitted the application to the US Ministry of Justice in August last year.

An Interpol -Red announcement was then issued in November, which Leissner put on alarm residues in almost every country.

Sources also said that the Malaysian authorities urged his delivery to his homeland to his homeland in Germany, where he could avoid law enforcement.

In the Interpol Red Mitteilung claims that Leissner had violated the Malaysian Capital Markets laws that fulfilled a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison in the event of conviction.

Leissner, who worked between 2012 and 2013 as a central number in the Southeast Asian chairman of Goldman of $ 6.5 billion.

The US prosecutor said Leisner teamed up with fugitive financier low taek JHO and the Goldman Banker Roger NG to pay civil servants in Malaysia and the Middle East over 1.6 billion dollars of bribes.

Leissner guilty for money laundering and bribes in the USA in 2018. He admitted that he had received $ 50 million up to $ 60 million and has been waiting for the conviction since then.

His conviction, which has been moved more than 10 times, is currently set for May 29.

NG, who was convicted in the United States and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, is now in Malaysia and supports local investigators.

It is expected to say as a defense witness in the former 1MDB corruption procedure by Prime Minister Najib Razak before being returned in US -right.

Goldman Sachs and Malaysia are currently controversial about their agreement from 2020, in which the former had agreed to pay 2.5 billion US dollars with the guarantee, $ 1.4 billion in assets.

Goldman Sachs submitted arbitration against Malaysia in 2023, and the procedure continues.

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