Accounts frozen by Malaysian investigators different from those reported, says WSJ
(TMI/WSJ) – The accounts frozen by the special task force investigating the alleged US$700 million (RM2.67 billion) money trail from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) into Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s personal accounts are not the same accounts that the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) had reported on in its exclusive report.
The WSJ in reporting on the freeze of six accounts today, cited a source close to the investigations that the accounts affected “were different from those described in the Journal report last week”.
In addition to the six accounts frozen, documents linked to 17 bank accounts in two banks were also seized by the task force, which comprises the Attorney-General’s Chambers, Bank Negara, police and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
The task force’s statement today, however, did not name the banks where the frozen accounts were, nor did it say whether any of them belonged to Najib.
However, sources later today confirmed with The Malaysian Insider that three of the frozen accounts were Najib’s, and were with AmBank and Affin Bank.
