October 12, 2017
Saudi Arabian energy businessman Tarek Obaid, whose company PetroSaudi is said by prosecutors to be tied up in the 1MDB embezzlement scandal, told a California federal judge Wednesday that his $2 million worth of shares in tech firm Palantir Technologies was not bought with laundered money and should be unfrozen.
June 15, 2017
The federal government dramatically expanded its efforts to seize assets linked to a sprawling corruption scheme surrounding the sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd. on Thursday, asking a California federal court for permission to seize $540 million worth of goods including a $250 million yacht, a Picasso painting and jewelry given to the supermodel Miranda Kerr and the wife of a top Malaysian government official.