Tim Leissner's 2-year sentence too lenient, should get maximum sentence over 1MDB: Johari Ghani
KUALA LUMPUR: The two-year prison sentence for a former Goldman Sachs banker in the multi-billion-dollar scandal involving Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund, 1MDB, was too lenient, said Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani.
Johari, who is the Plantation and Commodities Minister, was speaking in his capacity as chairman of the 1MDB asset recovery taskforce.
He said that ex-Goldman banker Tim Leissner should have received the maximum jail sentence, "considering he is one of the masterminds facilitating the 1MDB scandal."
Leissner, a former Southeast Asia chairman for Goldman, was sentenced to two years in prison by a New York court judge on Thursday for his role in the 1MDB scandal.-- REUTERS
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