Singapore to expand 1MDB criminal probe to include Goldman


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 22 Dec 2018

Singapore had been examining Goldman Sachs Group's relationship with the Malaysian state investment company since at least late 2017.PHOTO: REUTERS.

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg): Singapore has expanded a criminal probe into fund flows linked to scandal-plagued 1MDB to include Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which helped raise money for the entity, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Police in the city-state had been examining Goldman’s relationship with the Malaysian state investment company since at least late 2017, but until recently the firm’s local unit itself wasn’t a focus of any investigation, said the people, asking not to be named discussing sensitive information. Authorities are trying to determine whether some of the roughly $600mil (RM2.5bil) in fees from the three bond deals Goldman arranged for 1MDB from 2012 to 2013 flowed to the Singapore subsidiary, they said.

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