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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - PetroSaudi CEO Tarek Obaid (right) and PetroSaudi executive Patrick Mahony were convicted and sentenced to seven and six years in prison respectively by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona for embezzling US$1.8 billion from Malaysian sovereign fund 1MDB on August 28, 2024. — AFP pic
BELLINZONA (Switzerland), Aug 28 — The Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted two executives at an oil exploration company accused of embezzling over US$1.8 billion from Malaysia’s state investment fund 1MDB.
The verdict was the latest episode in the 1MDB scandal, a complex tale of international corruption that has buffeted a slew of financial institutions and individuals across the globe since allegations of wrongdoing first surfaced in 2015.
Prosecutors alleged that Swiss-British national Patrick Mahony and Swiss-Saudi Tarek Obaid, helped to set up a joint venture with 1MDB by creating the impression that their company, PetroSaudi, was backed by the Saudi government.
This was not, in fact, the case, but the accused managed to persuade 1MDB’s board into signing up to the scheme in 2009 before going on to defraud the fund, prosecutors said.
According to the indictment, the two executives defrauded the wealth fund of US$1.8 billion to enrich themselves, with Obaid getting at least US$805 million and Mahony at least US$37 million.
Obaid was sentenced to seven years in prison by the court, while Mahony received a sentence of six years.
Prosecutors said the two men created the fraudulent scheme with fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low, an advisor to former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is already in prison over his role in the multi-billion dollar scandal.
Initially extracting US$1 billion from 1MDB so it could buy a stake in their venture, the accused took a further US$830 million from the fund between 2010 and 2011 as part of an Islamic loan that followed on from their tie-up, prosecutors said.
Malaysian and U.S. investigators estimate a total of US$4.5 billion was siphoned away from 1MDB following its inception in 2009, implicating figures ranging from Razak, Goldman Sachs staff and high-level officials elsewhere. — Reuters
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