{"id":67451,"date":"2020-03-28T00:18:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67451"},"modified":"2020-03-28T00:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:25:37","slug":"msian-govt-pursuing-1mdb-money-from-doj-zafrul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67451","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;sian govt pursuing 1MDB money from DOJ &#8211; Zafrul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>By Saraswathi Muniappan<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Malaysian government is pursuing the\u00a0recovered money allegedly stolen from the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)\u00a0sovereign fund,\u00a0Finance Minister\u00a0Tengku Zafrul\u00a0Abdul Aziz said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said related government agencies and the Attorney-General\u2019s Chamber are working on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe govt agencies, the Attorney-General\u2019s Chamber&nbsp;are looking into&nbsp;this. It should be on track to get the money. We are pursuing it,\u201d he told Bernama when asked on a&nbsp;possible delay in the repatriation of the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported that the&nbsp;US Department of Justice (DoJ)&nbsp;has delayed the return to Malaysia of another US$240 million&nbsp;(RM1 billion) of the 1MDB money, citing political uncertainties when Dr Mahathir Mohamad quit as Malaysia\u2019s seventh&nbsp;prime minister on Feb 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 1, 2020, Muhyiddin Yassin was sworn in as the eighth prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DoJ returned nearly US$200 million to Malaysia in May 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saraswathi Muniappan KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Malaysian government is pursuing the\u00a0recovered money allegedly stolen from the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)\u00a0sovereign fund,\u00a0Finance Minister\u00a0Tengku Zafrul\u00a0Abdul Aziz said Friday. He said related government agencies and the Attorney-General\u2019s Chamber are working on it. \u201cThe govt agencies, the Attorney-General\u2019s Chamber&nbsp;are looking into&nbsp;this. It should be on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":39590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}