KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 – Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng has asked the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) to investigate financier Low Taek Jho and his family in relation to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the state fund at the heart of massive anti-corruption probe.
Lim Guan Eng said in a tweet: “The Inland Revenue Board is asked to investigate Jho Low and his family in relation to any returns or anything received in the 1MDB scandal.” The whereabouts of Low, an associate of embattled former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak’s family, are unknown. He has previously denied any wrongdoing. — Reuters
