The reverberation of the 1MDB scandal hit 11.0 on the Richter Scale last week when the US Justice Department announced it was filing a civil action seeking more than $1B in the forfeiture of assets allegedly purloined from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund for the personal use of the family and close friends of the Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak. The filings were the largest on record for a case involving corruption by foreign public officials.
