The government purportedly did not respond to a request from the World Bank to include the 1MDB scandal as a case study in the Global Forum on Asset Recovery (Gfar), according to an NGO.

Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4) executive director Cynthia Gabriel told Malaysiakini that the government did not decline the request but merely did not respond.

“When I asked the World Bank about 1MDB, we were told that there was no response from the government,” she said...