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Malaysia’s The Edge challenges Jho Low, accuses Singapore’s Straits Times of aiding ‘spin’ over 1MDB role
- Business paper gives scathing response to interview it accuses of being ‘nonsensical spin’
- The two newspapers have long been at loggerheads over their reporting on the scandal, in which billions of ringgit were siphoned out of a state fund
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Why you can trust SCMP
Malaysia’s The Edge business paper today wrote a scathing commentary in response to a Straits Times interview with fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, the businessman believed to be at the centre of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad corruption scandal.
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In ‘We ask Low the obvious questions The Straits Times of Singapore did not ask’, The Edge took aim at both Low and The Straits Times, demanding the fugitive “stop the nonsensical spin you are doing with help from your friends in [The Straits Times]’ and return to Malaysia”.
“Come back to your country of birth to defend yourself. Don’t run and hide. Only cowards and the guilty do that,” it wrote.
In The Straits Times interview, Low – often referred to as Jho Low – had said he would not return to Malaysia as he would not receive a fair trial.
He said he was merely “an intermediary” and had never held a decision-making role at 1MDB, while also underlining “personal safety concerns” that made it necessary for him to keep his whereabouts secret.
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