Roger Ng took a chance on US trial


NEW YORK: Former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng was in a squalid prison in South-East Asia for his role in the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal when his New York lawyer gave him a way out.

He persuaded Ng to come to the United States first for trial, rather than wait for the completion of the case in his native Malaysia.

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