KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 — Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim wants Putrajaya to haul all the culprits responsible for the massive looting of sovereign investment fund 1MDB to courts here so that Malaysians can get their “justice”.
He said senior Goldman Sachs officials whose negligence led to the massive financial losses and damage to Malaysia cannot relinquish their responsibility either.
Anwar noted that Roger Ng, the sole Goldman Sachs banker to have been tried in court had been convicted in the US, it would be dishonest to claim that justice had been upheld since testimonies throughout the former banker’s recent trial only revealed the roles many others played in the “scam”.
“The sworn statements by witnesses have overall dismissed the claims by Malaysian government officials that nothing had happened in Terengganu Investment Authority and then 1MDB.
“Senior Goldman Sachs officials involved in the 1MDB scandal cannot escape their negligence as well as the damage and losses caused to Malaysia.
“On Goldman Sachs’ apparent involvement in this ‘scam’, I reiterate my position that the settlement reached between the Malaysian government and Goldman Sachs in 2020 was premature and failed to consider the losses that Malaysians will continue to bear,” he said in a…
