He referred to as one of the world’s most wanted finansforbrytere, malaysian Jho Low.
The u.s. department of justice believes that Low is one of the main roles behind the theft of 4.5 billion – 38 billion Norwegian kroner – from a malaysian development fund.
Fastened with celebrities
Along with several other he shall have bought several luksuseiendeler with the stolen money. Low should have bought luxury apartments, private planes, a yacht of 250 million dollars, as well as attached with celebrities like Leonardo Di Caprio, Paris Hilton and Miranda Kerr, who he overøste with jewelry worth several million dollars. These items have since been given to the american justisdepartmentet.
It had been to understand if his countrymen were angry and annoyed, and wanted the Lows head on a dish. But it looks like they now fail to see the humor in the devastating pengeforbruket to Low, despite the fact that it is state money he has squandered.
“Find Jholly”
For now, Low, completely unexpectedly, appeared as the face of a number of new products, where one makes fun of Lows crimes, writes CNN.
On a shopping bags, under a drawing of the head to Low, it reads: “Contributions it just trust it”, freely translated “spend money as if they were stolen”. On the other products it says “Tis is the season to be Jholly”, “the holiday season where you shall be happy”, where the last word is a twist on the Lows first.
The new collection, “Jholly Christmas Collection”, also has a completely unique twist on the well-known and dear, also for the norwegians, the book “where is Willy?”.
“Find Jholly” called it.
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Kelvin Long, founder of A Piece of Malaysia, butikkjeden that is behind the collection, says to CNN that although many in Malaysia are hoping that the Low will be right for their actions, then they want to have a little fun at his expense in the meantime.
We want to get the Low back to Malaysia. But we try to get some humor out of the situation. There are many who are angry. Let us harsellere a bit with it, ” says Long.
“Mysteriemann”
Just how Low is located, there are few that know, and neither the american or malaysian authorities have got hold of him.
Earlier in the year, sources close to the Low have told that he is in China, where he is allowed to move freely.
the Prequel to Low is also of a character that makes many questioned his wealth, even before the suspicions against him became known.
Towards the end of the 2000s he struck suddenly up in New York’s financial and festeelite. The London-educated millionærsønnen was pictured at a party with Paris Hilton in St. Tropez and bought the apartment to Jay-Z and Beyonce in Manhattan.
the New York Post called him a time klubblivets “mysteriemann” in verdensmetropolen and is known as the man who flew a large delegation klubbjenter from New York to Malaysia and nærmestet thrown around with money.
But as the New York Post also noted: “Speculation about where he will get the money from their abound”.
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Tom Wright, co-author of the book a book about Low, saying that he is an “extraordinary” guy.
He is a mysterious figure. How he has managed to make himself this powerful figure in Malaysia, and the fact that he has this other life in the West, has captured the imagination of malaysians, ” says Wright.
On one level, are people angry because of the money that is stolen and Malaysia’s lost revenue at the same time are fascinated by him, how he flourished among Hollywood celebrities and bankers. Some malaysians say that he is wonderful, rather than the fact that he is one to criticize.
An FBI report claims that the Low from October 2009 to June 2010 spent over 85 million dollars at casinos in Las Vegas, in addition to the “rent of luxury yachts, hire of aircraft and on a interiørdekoratør from London”.
Claims his innocence
In the centre of the financial crimes that the Low linked to is Najib Razak, Malaysia’s former prime minister. He has for several years been under investigation for having received milliardbeløp to his personal account.
the Money should have come from the Malaysia’s state development fund, 1Malaysias Development Berhad (1MDB).
Razak was arrested in christmas, and he and his family are accused of having drained 1MDB for a staggering 38 billion dollars, and to have transferred closer to six billion of this amount to his personal bank account.
He was prime minister from 2009 until earlier this year, and have a close relationship with Jho Low.
Low itself had no formal connection to 1MDB and claim he is innocent. In a statement on his own website he writes that he “thinks he will get a compensation when all relevant evidence has been presented in a fair and legitimate courtroom”.
Tapped state funds for 38 billion. Accusations of China to hide him
