Seizure / forfeiture

Najib Razak: $681M moved in 2020

$681m appeared in his personal accounts; he was later convicted of abuse of power over a linked 1MDB unit.

The figure

  • Amount681,000,000 US dollars
  • CategorySeizure / forfeiture
  • CorridorKuala Lumpur, Malaysia → Singapore, Singapore
  • Distance309 km apart
  • Year reported2020
  • Documentation confidence94/100

What that amount buys

$681M is roughly 9 long-range private jets, 1.6K median-priced US homes, or 8.4K years of median US household income.

Najib Razak is publicly known as former prime minister of malaysia. The arc drawn for this entry joins Kuala Lumpur and Singapore because those are the places the two sides of the deal are based — it is not the route a wire took through the banking system.

Source

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