Jho Low in China using an alias? Possible, says Guan Eng

Fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, or better known as Jho Low, may have entered China using an alias.

Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng spoke of this possibility during in an interview with business station BFM.

"I have spoken to the Chinese ambassador to Malaysia, (Bai Tian) and he had given me assurance that according to the record, he (Low) did not enter China based on the Malaysian passport.

"But if he got a different passport with a different name, then it is a different story," he said at BFM's Breakfast Grille programme.

"But according to the record, Jho Low is not in China. We hope that, of course, this is the actual situation.

"And, if he has somehow slipped in, I think of course the Chinese authorities are willing to help us identify and locate him. So far, we have no problem in term of co-operation from the Chinese authorities," he said.

Low, whose Malaysian passport had been cancelled on June 16, is said to have used his St Kitts and Nevis passport, which was reportedly revoked later.

Singapore's Straits Times has reported that Low, who is wanted by several countries, has passports from Australia, New Zealand and Thailand.

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