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Indonesia hands over 1MDB-linked luxury yacht to FBI: police

March 9, 2018
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A luxury yacht linked to allegations that $4.5 billion was looted from Malaysia’s state investment fund 1MDB is being handed over to the FBI, which is probing the scandal, Indonesian police said Thursday.

US and Indonesian authorities last week searched the Cayman Island-registered Equanimity, reportedly worth some $250 million, which was moored off the Indonesian tourist island of Bali.

“(The handing over) is in the process of being done,” national police senior detective Daniel Silitonga told AFP.

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The US Justice Department alleges in civil lawsuits that $4.5 billion was stolen from 1MDB — set up by Prime Minister Najib Razak — in a campaign of fraud and money-laundering. Najib and the fund deny any wrongdoing.

The suits list $1.7 billion in assets allegedly bought with the stolen funds, which US officials are seeking to recover.

Those assets include the 300-foot (90-metre) yacht which US officials said was purchased by Malaysian financier known as Jho Low, an unofficial adviser to 1MDB.

The ship’s captain and about three dozen crew had been questioned but no one has been arrested so far, Silitonga said.

“Regarding the crew, we are still discussing it,” he said, when asked if they would be taken into the FBI’s custody.

Built in 2013, the Netherlands-made yacht has nine bedrooms,  including a master suite with a hot tub, a helipad, a gym and spa, and a movie theatre, according to yachtcharterfleet.com.

Low, whose full is name Low Taek Jho, was said to have made key financial decisions linked to 1MDB, although he did not hold any official positions in Malaysia.

He has denied any wrongdoing and his current whereabouts are unknown.

After the boat seizure, a spokesman for Low noted that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) had officially delayed its efforts to seize assets last year.

A US court reportedly granted a stay after a request from authorities, as they believed the civil proceedings could affect a criminal probe they are also conducting.

Low’s spokesman said last week that the DoJ had “still not taken any steps to prove that any impropriety has occurred”.

“It is therefore disappointing that, rather than reflecting on the deeply flawed and politically-motivated allegations, the DoJ is continuing with its pattern of global overreach — all based on entirely unsupported claims of wrongdoing,” he said.

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