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Malaysia’s Fugitive Jho Low Carries Cypriot Passport

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Nov 05, 2019
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Jho Taek Low, the flamboyant fugitive financier accused of being the mastermind behind the US$4.8 billion collapse of the state-backed 1Malaysia Development Bhd, has carried a Cypriot passport since 2015, according to a Cypriot-based Greek language publication called Politis.

That is likely to have helped Low – who turned 40 on November 4 – evade interna…

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