KUALA LUMPUR – Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah must state what police have done about tip-offs that fugitive Low Taek Jho was spotted in Shanghai Disneyland, a DAP lawmaker said.
Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng welcomed Acryl Sani’s recent statement that police remained committed to finding the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) mastermind, but asked whether investigators had contacted the former Wall Street Journal journalists who revealed the information about Low’s sighting in China and Hong Kong.
“I welcome the police’s commitment to locate and bring back Low to face the law in Malaysia.
“I only want to ask the IGP if police have contacted Tom Wright and Bradley Hope about information that Low and his family had been spotted in China and Hong Kong in 2018 and 2019.
“If not, why are police reluctant to get information from Wright and Hope?” Lim said in a statement today.
Acryl Sani had said that no Interpol member country had sighted Low on their territory, despite a red notice on the Penang-born businessman.
Low has 13 charges filed against him in absentia on Malaysia soil over the 1MDB controversy, and is also the subject of investigation in Singapore and the United States.
Wright and Hope, who wrote best-seller Billion Dollar Whale on the 1MDB scandal, recently shared a photograph of a person resembling Low, allegedly in Shanghai Disneyland in China in 2019.
Wright and Hope are now running Project Brazen, aimed at hunting down Low across Asia.
They claim that Low is leading a domestic life in China, where he is married with two children. The exact location of his home there, however, is not known.
Lim today also asked Acryl Sani if Malaysian police would propose to the government a reward for anyone with information on Low’s whereabouts, as well as others linked to the 1MDB scandal who are still at large.
“A reward of RM100,000, or RM1 million, from the sale of the Equanimity yacht worth RM514 million that was seized from Low and then sold to Genting by the government in 2019,” suggested Lim. – The Vibes, September 10, 2022
