“I took the money to spend for us,”- With these words Najib consigned UMNO leaders into the FBI and DOJ "data on corruption" dragnet
In December last year the Wall Street Journal reported:
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was fighting for his political life this summer after revelations that almost $700 million from an undisclosed source had entered his personal bank accounts.
Under pressure within his party to resign, he called together a group of senior leaders in July to remind them everyone had benefited from the money.
The funds, Mr. Najib said, weren’t used for his personal enrichment.
Instead, they were channeled to politicians or into spending on projects aimed at helping the ruling party win elections in 2013, he said, according to a cabinet minister who was present.
“I took the money to spend for us,” the minister quoted Mr. Najib as saying.
Unfortunately for UMNO's leaders, records of their assets within and outside Malaysia are, as result of Najib's words, probably part of the FBI and DOJ's data dragnet.
Within that cache is likely to be data on their 1 MDB linked assets, and all other assets howsoever financed.
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