PETALING JAYA: China offered the Malaysian government to use its influence to try to get the United States and other nations to stop investigations on associates of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and others involved in the alleged plunder of 1MDB.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported China also offered to bug homes and offices of WSJ reporters in Hong Kong who were investigating the fund to learn who was leaking information to the reporters.