1MDB: the inside story of the world’s biggest financial scandal | Curio

1MDB: the inside story of the world’s biggest financial scandal

39 mins | Aug 13, 2020

How a jailed former banker and a lone British journalist broke a story that shook the world. "A number of corrupt 1MDB officials treated this public trust as a personal bank account. The co-conspirators laundered their stolen funds through a complex web of opaque transactions and fraudulent shell companies, with bank accounts in countries around the world, including Switzerland, Singapore and the United States." Randeep Ramesh investigates.

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