Is Jho Low in Shanghai? Malaysia's Anwar vows to investigate claims about 1MDB fugitive
Anwar Ibrahim said on Saturday that Malaysia had not received any information regarding allegations that fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, commonly referred to as
Jho Low , was living in
China
Advertisement
Anwar mentioned that he was planning to investigate the situation involving the central figure of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (
1MDB ) financial scandal in collaboration with Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
'I have no information; we have yet to receive anything. Let me check. I've read [the media reports]. I need to verify with the home minister,' he told reporters on Saturday.
His comments came in response to various reports suggesting that
Jho Low , sought by international officials, is believed to be living in an upscale district of
Shanghai , allegedly using a forged
Australian passport.
Fugitive financier Jho Low is allegedly living in a luxury mansion in Shanghai under a fake identity. Photo: AP
In a livestream titled Finding Jho Low, investigative journalists Bradley Hope and Tom Wright claimed Low was living in Green Hills, an ultra-exclusive neighbourhood in Shanghai.
Advertisement
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
South China Morning Post
23 minutes ago
- South China Morning Post
Malaysia's top court to hear Anwar's immunity bid in sexual harassment case
The Court of Appeal on Monday ruled that proceedings must be postponed to allow Anwar to pursue a constitutional challenge over whether a sitting prime minister should be shielded from such lawsuits, particularly those related to events before he took office and might be politically motivated. Anwar is facing a civil suit filed by his former research aide, Muhammed Yusoff Rawther, who has accused him of sexual assault at his private residence in 2018, when he was the opposition leader. Anwar has denied the allegations. The trial was initially scheduled to begin in mid-June, but a three-member bench agreed it should be deferred to give Anwar sufficient time to seek clarification from the Federal Court on the scope of legal protections afforded to a serving prime minister. Anwar's lawyers have argued that the prime minister is 'simply asserting his right to raise constitutional questions of public importance' and is not attempting to avoid trial. The questions include whether a sitting prime minister should be granted protection from politically motivated suits aimed at undermining the government, and whether civil suits involving conduct before a leader taking office should be subject to safeguards.
South China Morning Post
2 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
China officials order cleaners to sift through tonnes of rubbish for lost watch, spark outrage
A local government in China has been panned by internet users for making two cleaners spend four hours in the scorching heat searching for a small watch lost by a tourist. In early July, a woman from Shenzhen, southern China, took her child to Datong in the northern province of Shanxi by train. She accidentally put her child's smartwatch in a rubbish bag near their seat, then left the train, Red Star News reported. The gadget has a positioning function which showed it was still in the railway station. It took the two cleaning workers four hours to sift through piles of rubbish before they found the watch. Photo: The next day, the mother, surnamed Lu, followed the advice of a friend to call the hotline of the Datong municipal government, asking if they could retrieve the watch from the station.
South China Morning Post
2 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
Malaysia on edge as police hunt armed robbery suspect amid surge in shootings
As Malaysian police pursue a gunman accused of firing a weapon on a street in southern Johor state at the weekend, the country's sense of safety is being rattled by a wave of gun violence that has left five dead in recent weeks. The series of recent shootings has come as a shock to many in Malaysia , where unlicensed possession of firearms carries extensive jail terms and mandatory whipping. In a number of cases, attackers have brazenly fired upon their targets in full public view. The latest incident unfolded on Saturday evening in Seri Alam township, less than an hour's drive from the Singapore border. 'The suspect entered the premises and pointed an object that resembled a pistol at a victim while demanding that they hand over cash,' Seri Alam police chief Mohd Sohaimi Ishak said in a statement. 'The suspect fired one shot outside the premises before escaping on a motorcycle.' No injuries were reported. Police are investigating the case as an unlawful discharge of a firearm, an offence punishable by up to 40 years' imprisonment and a minimum of 12 strokes of the cane upon conviction.
