Up Periscope: Malaysia’s Sub Scandal Resurfaces
What, until the US$4.5 billion 1MDB affair, had been Malaysia's biggest scandal, has reappeared – the US$1.2 billion purchase of submarines under then-Defense Minister Najib Razak at the turn of the century, a lurid tangle of blackmail, bribery, murder, influence peddling, misuse of corporate assets and concealment.
Crusading French lawyer William Bourdo…
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