Jho Low has not committed any offence in Malaysia, says Nazri Aziz

Noel Achariam Noel Achariam Updated 6 years ago · Published on 26 Oct 2017 6:41PM · 5 Comments

CONTROVERSIAL Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho has not committed any offence in Malaysia, said Nazri Aziz, defending Putrajaya’s decision to close investigations on him in relation to state investor 1Malaysia Development Berhad.

The Tourism and Culture minister said Malaysia could only take action against Low if he had committed an offence in the country.

“Tell us what he has committed. If he has committed an offence in this country under our law, we will take action,” he said in Shah Alam today after launching the cartoon characters Upin and Ipin as Malaysian tourism ambassadors.

Nazri was asked about Putrajaya’s announcement that Malaysian police had closed its probe into the businessman who has been linked to graft involving funds from 1MDB.

Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi on Monday had said that there was no case to answer on Low, better known as Jho Low, and that police have closed the case file.

Zahid, however, had said this in a statement to correct earlier reports that he had told the Dewan Rakyat that Malaysia had sought the help of Interpol to track down Low.

The deputy prime minister said that since the case against Low was closed, the issue of engaging Interpol for help did not arise.

Nazri today said that Low’s offences, if any, had been committed overseas.

“So let the foreign governments take action against him.

“All this while Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been saying the whole world knew about Jho Low and the alleged offences but Malaysia doesn’t know. So, tell us?

Dr Mahathir and Pakatan Harapan leaders have called Malaysia a kleptocracy because of the 1MDB global financial scandal, which triggered money-laundering and corruption probes in six countries.

Low is said to be at the centre of the money flow, whereby an estimated RM39 billion of 1MDB money has allegedly been lost through theft and mismanagement.

In the US, the Department of Justice had earlier filed civil forfeiture suits to seize more than US$1 billion of assets purchased there and has since applied to suspend those suits so as to launch a criminal investigation. – October 26, 2017.

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  • Nazri, are you willing to go to local and international courts to defend Jho Low and to prove your lies?

    Posted 6 years ago by Kuasa Rakyat · Reply

  • Why then hide everywhere else except in Malaysia if no crime committed here. Any accomplice of MO1 would be a traitor to the nation.

    Posted 6 years ago by Xuz ZG · Reply

  • I seriously doubt this. They just not looking close enough. At the very least he must have used one of his false I'd in a transaction which is against bank Negara law

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • We'll prove it once BN is wipeout..

    Posted 6 years ago by Ali Along · Reply

  • It's another classical case of play-acting from a socalled seasoned but-already-in-twilight-zone Nyet-zri. Or it also could be another incidence of him being 1 real dumbo naughty.

    Whoah, this gotta be the dumbest news item of the year that manages to make it to the open world... that lowly so low Jho Low, the Bigly Conman of Malusia hadn't committed any offence in 1Malaysia....!

    Nyet-zri, the new mega-spinner in town gotta just ask YB Rafizi or YB Tony Pua as far as Lowly Low Jho's litany of offences, both domestic (where coyly complacent law enforcement "authorities" play act to be seen as doing something for nil outcome!) and globally (where 6 countries' authorities are doing the needy).

    So just stop kiddin' us, Nyet-zri, will you ?!!!

    Posted 6 years ago by Musang Wang · Reply