Former Petrosaudi International executive Xavier Justo has lodged a criminal report with Scotland Yard against “a few” UK companies and individuals allegedly involved in the Petrosaudi-1MDB deal.
“The fight is not over yet, we will chase them all, from the top to the bottom. Their crimes will not be forgotten or forgiven, never!” he posted on Facebook today.
One of the UK firms believed to be involved in the scandalous deal is the Royal Bank of Scotland.
One of the UK firms believed to be involved in the scandalous deal is the Royal Bank of Scotland.
The bank owns Zurich’s RBS Coutts Bank Ltd, which is the former’s international private banking arm.
Good Star Ltd – a company allegedly controlled by 1MDB-linked businessperson Jho Low – has an account with RBS Coutts.
Good Star is believed to have received US$700 million misappropriated from 1MDB’s joint venture project with Petrosaudi International.
Justo lodged the report together with his wife Laura, who was photographed with him outside New Scotland Yard’s London headquarters.
“We fight as a family because we suffered as a family! We will rest when these crooks will be arrested, not before,” he added. – MKINI
Who Justo named in UK police report on 1MDB
Former Petrosaudi International executive Xavier Justo has revealed the list of companies and individuals whom he had lodged reports against in the UK over the 1MDB scandal.
Justo told Malaysiakini that among them was Petrosaudi, its owner Tarek Obaid, and chief financial officer Patrick Mahony.
Also named was Paul Finnigan, whom allegedly posed as a Scotland Yard officer to force Justo into making a false confession while in Thailand.
Justo also lodged a report against Protection Group International (PGI), which the New Straits Times had quoted in 2016 as claiming that data he gave to Sarawak Report had been tampered with.
Three other companies and two individuals were also named in Justo’s report to Scotland Yard.
“The complaint was done a few days ago but for security reasons we waited to be out of the country to make it public,” he said,
Justo had previously named Obaid and the others in a similar complaint filed in Switzerland three months ago. – MKINI
Justo files report over 1MDB with Scotland Yard
FORMER PetroSaudi International executive Xavier Justo filed a report with Scotland Yard against several companies in the United Kingdom and individuals allegedly involved in the PetroSaudi-1Malaysia Development Bhd deal.
He said this in a post on his Facebook page this afternoon.
“The fight is not over yet. We will chase them all, from the top to the bottom.
“Their crimes will not be forgotten or forgiven, never!” he said in the post which also showed a photo of him, his wife and child outside Scotland Yard in London.
“We fight as a family because we suffered as a family! We will rest when these crooks are arrested, not before.”
He did not mention the names of the companies he filed criminal complaints against, but one of the companies is believed to be the Royal Bank of Scotland.
RBS Group is the parent company of Swiss private bank Coutts Zurich.
Whistleblower site Sarawak Report said in an October 2016 article that Coutts handled “the lightning-fast transaction for US$700 million (RM2.8 billion) from 1MDB without obtaining the actual name of the beneficial owner of Good Star, and without establishing Good Star’s claimed relationship to PetroSaudi”.
Sarawak Report said Coutts originally received the first US$700 million dollars diverted out of the fund via its initial so-called joint venture with the then-minor oil company PetroSaudi in September 2009.
“A subsequent US$330 million was later also sent directly to the same account in the name of the Seychelles-based company Good Star Limited in 2011, making a total of US$1.03 billion stolen through Coutts.
“…the Good Star account with Coutts Zurich was set up just a couple of days before the transfer, which finally banked on October 2nd,” the whistleblower site said.
Good Star’s owner was businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low – a confidante and advisor to the-then prime minister Najib Razak.
1MDB was Najib’s brainchild, while Low is accused to be the mastermind behind the siphoning of funds out of the sovereign wealth fund.
Justo’s role in the 1MDB scandal was how he had taken confidential information on PetroSaudi and 1MDB dealings, and tried to blackmail his former employer for money in exchange for not revealing the information.
Justo was arrested by police on the Thai island of Koh Samui and was jailed for three years in August 2015 after being found guilty of blackmailing PetroSaudi.
He was released in December 2016 after being granted a royal amnesty by Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn. He was deported to Switzerland.
Justo previously leaked several confidential documents from the PetroSaudi joint venture with 1MDB.
The leaked information were published by Malaysian and international media in early 2015 and formed the basis for the money-laundering probe. – THE MALAYSIAN INSIGHT
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