The application was rejected, but fearing that the rejection would put their relationship with Malaysia in jeopardy, Leissner recommended Najib’s daughter for a job at TPG Inc., a private equity firm – which she eventually got. However, at the time banks were going under scrutiny for giving jobs to prominent families in Asia, and Leissner was worried that this might be seen as some kind of bribe. To that end, Jho Low allegedly passed along the resume of Najib’s daughter to Leissner for a position in Goldman’s London office, where Leissner discussed it with a senior official at the bank. We’ll work on getting them to join GS.” – excerpt from an e-mail Ng sent Leissner, as reported by Bloomberg. “Just met PM’s three children with Jho at his apartment. This was just before a deal for 1MDB to work with Goldman Sachs on bond deals worth USD6.5 billion, and it was allegedly agreed for Leissner and Roger to get Najib’s three children jobs at Goldman Sachs in exchange for the business. Img from Sinar Harian.Īs told by Leissner, back in 2009, Najib Razak visited his children in New York for the Thanksgiving holidays, and Jho Low (who was introduced to Leissner by Roger) thought this was a good chance for Najib to meet former Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein. Zeti’s husband, Dr Tawfiq Ayman, had denied knowing or ever communicating with neither Roger or Leissner, and stressed that he had never in his entire life received bribes from anyone.Ĭan’t have 1MDB article without Najib being mentioned. Leissner had admitted that he “don’t know independently if bribes had been paid”, but in the uproar that followed, a lot of denials came from the accused parties. “A billion dollars was wired overnight to Malaysia to the joint venture and it had been done because the husband of the then governor Zeti (Akhtar Aziz) at Bank Negara had received a bribe to make that happen,” – Leissner, as quoted by MalaysiaKini. Apparently, something shady allegedly happened: a bribe.
Bank Negara Malaysia would then have to approve a billion dollars leaving Malaysia, but Leissner heard from Roger that the money had been wired overnight, which was weird since the approval process was so quick.
Sometime in 2009, Leissner heard from Roger that 1MDB had invested USD1 billion in a joint venture project with PetroSaudi.
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