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Najib’s Spectacular Carnival of Thievery

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John Berthelsen
Jul 26, 2016
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Among all the questions triggered by the announcement last week that the US government had seized US$1 billion from assets stolen from 1Malaysia Development Bhd since 2009, the biggest one is perhaps this: How on earth did they think they could get away with it?

That cool billion announced by US Attorney General Loretta Lynch was only a small part of the…

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