Ex-Goldman partner Tim Leissner to testify against former colleague Roger Ng in 1MDB trial in US


PETALING JAYA: Two former Goldman Sachs colleagues will face off in a Brooklyn, New York, courtroom on Wednesday (Feb 16) over the looting of hundreds of millions of dollars from the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) sovereign wealth fund, one of the biggest scandals in Wall Street history.

According to Reuters, prosecutors will call their star witness, Tim Leissner, a former Goldman partner and Malaysian Roger Ng's former boss at the bank's South-East Asia operation.

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