JPMorgan Chase pays $330M to settle Malaysian fund allegations
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Adrianne Appel2025-08-25T20:49:00
JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $330 million to settle allegations about its role in the massive, decades-long theft of Malaysian’s 1MDB state investment fund, the bank says.
An estimated $4.5 billion was robbed from the 1MDB fund, from 2009-2014, in a scheme led by Malaysian financier, Jho Low, former Goldman Sachs managing director Roger Ng, and Tim Leissner, former chairman of Southeast Asia for Goldman Sachs.
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