Malaysia launches sale of superyachts related to graft scandal
Malaysia launches sale of superyachts related to graft scandal
The Malaysian government launched a one-month auction on Monday for a luxury yacht purchased with stolen money from the multimillion-dollar looting of a state investment fund.
The sale came almost three months after Indonesia returned the $ 250 million yacht, Equanimity, after it seized it. Bali in February in cooperation with the FBI of the United States. The United States Department of Justice, one of several foreign agencies investigating a massive graft scandal in the 1MDB fund, has included the yacht among the assets it could seize and sell to recover stolen funds.
US investigators said Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, who according to the Justice Department was a key figure in the theft and international laundering of $ 4.5 billion to 1MDB, bought the yacht with the profits deviated from 1MDB.
Ong Chee Kwan, a 1MDB lawyer, says the government opened bids for the 300-foot (91.5 meters) yacht after a lengthy legal process.
Low, who has so far evaded investigators, has declared illegal the transfer of the yacht to Malaysia through statements issued by his US lawyers, but did not claim ownership of the ship in the Malaysian court. The court granted ownership of the yacht to 1MDB and the government, since no one contested their claim.
Ong said the ads were placed in the local and international media in the sale of yachts that will be handled by the London-based stockbroker Burgess Yachts. He said that interested parties should deposit a deposit of $ 1 million to bid for the ship.
Once the auction ended on November 28, he said the government could make a decision on the sale within a week.
Burgess said on his website that "the judicial sale will provide the buyer with an internationally recognized property deed, free of mortgages, attachments and all liens."
Former Prime Minister Najib Razak established 1MDB when he took office in 2009, but accumulated billions in debt. The 1MDB fiasco led to the electoral defeat of Najib in the general of May. choiceS and introduced the first change of power in the country since the independence of Great Britain in 1957.
Najib and his wife have been accused of multiple charges of corruption and money laundering in the case of the 1MDB. Both pleaded not guilty and their trials will begin next year.
The new government has said that the corruption of the Najib administration caused the national debt to accumulate. The yacht, currently docked in Port Klang just outside Kuala Lumpur, is being sold to recover as much money as possible.
The luxurious amenities of the Equanimity include a helicopter landing strip, a plunge pool, a gym and a cinema. It was built in 2014 by Dutch yacht manufacturer Oceano, which received detailed instructions from Low about its equipment, according to the asset recovery case of the Department of Justice.
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