Fugees rapper took US$100mil to do Jho Low's bidding, US prosecutor tells jurors

WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG): Pras Michel, a Grammy-winner rapper who reinvented himself as a political influencer, was paid US$100mil (RM443.8mil) to try to end US probes of fugitive Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho, better knwon as Jho Low, and to aid the Chinese government in seeking the US extradition of a billionaire dissident, a prosecutor told jurors.

Michel, 50, was central in a plot to convince US President Donald Trump’s administration to end a probe of Low’s alleged embezzlement of billions of dollars from the Malaysian development fund 1MDB, prosecutor Sean Mulryne argued Thursday (April 20).