Journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown discusses how the multibillion-dollar financial scandal of 1MDB unfolded, with its multiple red flags of financial transfers and fronting politically exposed persons involved. She notes in this presentation how it was seen as the largest kleptocracy investigation and global asset seizure to date, and how a free media plays a vital role in combating and tracing the complex paths of such graft.
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