Ex-Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng and his lawyer Marc Agnifilo leave the federal court in New York, U.S., May 6, 2019/REUTERSpix: Jury selection is expected to begin on Monday in the US corruption trial of a former Goldman Sachs banker accused of involvement in the looting of billions of dollars from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund.
Goldman helped sell $6.5 billion of bonds for 1MDB, a fund former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak launched to spur economic development. Authorities said fund officials and accomplices looted some of the money to spend on luxuries, while Goldman bankers paid more than $1.6 billion in bribes to officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi for 1MDB business.https://www.reuters.
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