Suspension of US law could scuttle 1MDB assets recovery efforts, says journalist

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Billion Dollar Whale co-author Tom Wright says there is ‘no chance now Malaysia will get its billions from Goldman’.  Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/02/13/suspension-of-us-law-could-scuttle-1mdb-assets-recovery-efforts-says-journalist/   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #1MDB #TomWright #AssetsRecovery

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00:00The co-author of Billion Dollar Whale, a book on the 1MDB scandal, said the suspension of

00:06a law banning bribery of foreign officials would likely scuttle Malaysia's efforts to

00:11recover a full settlement from Goldman Sachs.

00:14US President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing the Foreign Corrupt Practices

00:19Act on Monday.

00:22CBS News reported that the executive order places a 180-day pause to all investigations

00:27under the FCPA while they are being reviewed.

00:31In a post on X, Tom Wright wrote,

00:34No chance now Malaysia will get its billions from Goldman.

00:38One of Wright's followers on X said, however, that Putrajaya was still painting rosy pictures

00:43that Trump's administration would not hinder Malaysia's effort to reclaim its money, to

00:47which Wright replied,

00:48Goldman already dragging feet.

00:52In November last year, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim demanded that Goldman Sachs honour

00:56its settlement with Putrajaya over its role in the 1MDB scandal, which included a US$2.5

01:02billion cash payment within 10 days and a guarantee to recover US$1.4 billion in assets

01:09within five years.

01:101MDB Asset Recovery Task Force Chairman Johari Ghani said,

01:15Ambiguities in the 2020 agreement between Putrajaya and Goldman Sachs are allowing the

01:19New York-based investment bank to evade its full responsibilities.

01:24Dhanushwaja Reza, FMT News.

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