Jho Low launches website to fend off 1MDB attacks

Bede Hong Bede Hong Updated 7 years ago · Published on 17 Sep 2018 3:56PM · 8 Comments

Low Taek Jho has created a website to fend off allegations of wrongdoing relating to his role in the 1MDB scandal, ahead of the launch of the book centred around him, Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World. – AFP pic, September 17, 2018.

PENANG-BORN businessman Low Taek Jho today launched his own website to fend off allegations of wrongdoing relating to his role in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal.

Low is wanted by Malaysian and Singaporean authorities for allegedly siphoning at least US$4.5 billion (RM18.45 billion) from the state investment fund.

“Let me be clear: I am innocent,” he said in a signed letter on the website where he is described as a “global philanthropist, investor and entrepreneur”.

“With hindsight I may have done things differently, like any young person, but any mistakes I made do not amount to the sweepingly broad and destructive allegations being made against me,” Low said.

“I have been paraded in effigy through the streets of Kuala Lumpur and photographs from my younger days plastered in tabloids across the globe,” Low wrote.

“I only ask that everyone – courts, prosecutors and the general public – keep an open mind until all of the evidence comes to light.”

Another statement on the website slammed a new book by Wall Street Journal reporters, saying it was “written with allegations disguised as fact and gossip passed off as legitimate reporting”.

Low is the central figure in the book Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, written by Bradley Hope and Nicholas T. Wright.

He is facing money-laundering charges levelled against him in absentia in Putrajaya last month, but has refused to submit to a trial claiming that he will not get a fair hearing in Malaysia.

The charges filed in Putrajaya were the first anywhere in the world against the elusive Low, who is said to be the mastermind behind the 1MDB scandal currently under investigation in several countries. – September 17, 2018.

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  • Ego-driven criminal mastermind whose twisted core values were entirely influenced by his Gatsby-wannabe father Larry. Accept the consequences of your self-aggrandizing misdeeds, Jho Low. Spend a few years in prison and emerge as a bona fide benefactor of your fellow humans. What a ridiculous waste of street smarts!

    Posted 7 years ago by Antares Maitreya · Reply

  • You come back to Malaysia first ...you useless scoundrel....you are wanted everywhere....repent or you will never be forgiven....liar & thief of the highest order and your Malaysian accomplice
    ..MO1....GOD IS GREAT...you guys won't escape....you will have very very painful endings together with your families...

    Posted 7 years ago by Hantoo Blacklord · Reply

  • The most brazen conman and thief claiming innocence.

    Posted 7 years ago by CY W · Reply

  • bloody useless son of a bitch. come back and clear your name

    Posted 7 years ago by Mickey mouse · Reply

  • Whoever is paid by the thief will have their accounts frozen one day and liable to charges of living off fatsos immoral earnings. Sounds familiar with some thing...

    Posted 7 years ago by Ju Laza · Reply

  • Do a digital forensics investigation on the origins of the website. Trace the source.. round up all the scoundrels working for him and supporting him in his endeavour to fend off allegations of wrong doing....!
    He obviously still has access to large sums of ill-gotten money. The investigations should be intensified.. Interpol search should be intensified... our own police force should up their game and be proactive in the search for the fugitive!

    Posted 7 years ago by Thiruchelvam Thirunavukarasu · Reply

  • Should we boycott China made product if it knowingly protects a thief ?

    Posted 7 years ago by Casim Fareed · Reply

  • One recently published book says you "ran the show at 1MDB", while Najib was "disengaged". Did you mastermind any illegal cheques/money transfers while Najib was busy trying to be both PM & Finance Minister to the detriment of Malaysia's finances? You cannot escape the ongoing international scrutiny and probe. You cannot avoid the oppobrium that will attach to your self unless you answer the charges levelled against you in a court of law and clear your name. You are now a fugitive of justice trying to flee the long arm of the law. For how long?..

    Posted 7 years ago by MELVILLE JAYATHISSA · Reply