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COMMENT | Sex, sleaze, corruption and M’sian elites
COMMENT | When Timothy Leissner, a former Goldman Sachs executive, testified against Roger Ng, he gave us an interesting insight into the shallow lives of some of Malaysia's elite.

Ng is another Goldman banker who is facing corruption charges in the 1MDB scandal.

Last week's court proceedings in New York should have reminded you of the similarities with the long-forgotten Scorpene deal. If there's money involved, there's bound to be sex, sleaze and the seductress (3Ss).

In the Scorpene deal, the convicted felon, Najib Abdul Razak's aide, Razak Baginda, handled the purchase of the submarines from the French contractor, DCN. Baginda's translator was Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu. Once the Scorpene deal was successfully negotiated, the two reportedly toured Europe in a Ferrari sports car.

In the Scorpene scandal, Najib was defence minister. In the 1MDB scandal, Najib was prime minister. And while the troubled sovereign fund was Jho Low's brainchild, Najib was his enabler. Both Leissner and Ng, with Jho Low's help, were involved in a scam which had Najib's fingerprints all over it.

Both jobs - 1MDB and Scorpene - involved huge sums of money and lots of sex, sleaze and scandals. If case you have not yet connected the dots, the common link is Najib.

At, or around, the same time as Razak Baginda's European tryst, Leissner's sexual liaison was being conducted in Malaysia. His lover was...
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