Monday, 18 June, 2018

1MDB: How A Malaysian Scandal Spread Across The World.

1MDB: How A Malaysian Scandal Spread Across The World

Posted on Wednesday, 28 December, 2016Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

1MDB: How A Malaysian Scandal Spread Across The World.

In comments made by Abdul Rahman Dahlan, the Malaysian Minister of Urban Well-Being, Housing and Local Government in a BBC interview in September 2016, he said that the unnamed official “Malaysian Official 1” singled out by the U.S. Justice Dept in their lawsuit filed in July 2016, was in fact the Malaysian Prime Minister, who is also the Finance Minister, and the Chairman of 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) Board of Advisors. Banks and financial institutions in ten countries were involved in funnelling billions of dollars from 1MDB into off-shore entities – no one actually knows exactly how much money was involved to date, but the sums so far added up to tens of billions. The only action so far were the closure of the Swiss BSI Bank in Singapore, the prosecution of three Singaporean BSI private bankers, and the seizure of assets allegedly acquired with the misappropriated funds in the USA by the Justice Dept. Tun Seri Najib Razak, the Malaysian Prime Minister, continues to plead his innocence, in his involvement in the 1MDB sleaze.

Read Latest Investigation By The U.S. Justice Dept Here:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/law-firms-accounts-pose-money-laundering-risk-1482765003

Read Background Article Here:

http://www.wsj.com/graphics/1mdb-how-a-malaysian-scandal-spread-across-the-world/

Follow The Wall Street Journal Updates Here:

http://www.wsj.com/specialcoverage/malaysia-controversy

Hanny's Voorwerp.
Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Keel (Univ. Alabama), et al., Galaxy Zoo Team. Hanny's Voorwerp, Dutch for "Hanny's Object," is about the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Glowing strongly in the greenish light produced by ionized oxygen atoms, the mysterious voorwerp is below spiral galaxy IC 2497. Both lie at a distance of some 650 million light-years in the faint constellation Leo Minor. In fact, the enormous green cloud is now suspected to be part of a tidal tail of material illuminated by a quasar inhabiting the center of IC 2497. Powered by a massive black hole, the quasar suddenly turned off, leaving only galaxy and glowing voorwerp visible at optical wavelengths. The Hubble image also resolves a star-forming region in the voorwerp, seen in yellow on the side near IC 2497. That region was likely compressed by an outflow of gas driven from the galaxy's core. The remarkable mystery object was discovered by Dutch schoolteacher Hanny van Arkel in 2007 while participating online in the Galaxy Zoo project; it enlists the public to help classify galaxies found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and more recently in deep Hubble imagery.

The Blackfoot Indians were a nation of American Indians with four distinctive tribes, one in Montana and the other in Alberta, Canada. Fierce buffalo hunters, this nomadic tribe followed their food source. With no experience in pottery, crafts or agriculture, they relied on the land. While natural food sources and small subsidized, the buffalo were their main source of food, clothing, shelter, tools and weapons. Today the surviving heirs still live on much of the Montana land they had long ago.

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The self-portrait is an 1889 oil on canvas painting by the post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The picture was painted in September that year, shortly before he left Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France. This self-portrait, which may have been his last, was one of about 40 van Gogh produced over a 10-year period. He would paint himself because he often lacked the money to pay for models. He took the painting with him to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, where he showed it to Dr Paul Gachet, who thought it was "absolutely fanatical." The Musée d'Orsay in Paris obtained the picture in 1986.

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