by Ganesh Sahathevan
(Source :John Berthelsen, Apandi Ali inadvertently flashes report implicating Najib during press conference-Asian Sentinel,January 27, 2016)
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court papers quietly filed this past week, various entities connected
to Red Granite Pictures co-founder Riza Aziz are attacking the U.S.
government's attempt to seize real estate properties in the huge $1
billion action targeting alleged corruption of Malaysian public funds.
The Justice Department has touted the 1MDB case as its biggest kleptocracy case to date,
but Aziz's lawyer, Matthew Schwartz, a former assistant U.S. attorney
who once prosecuted Bernie Madoff, slams the U.S. government for failing
to include "essential detail" about the supposed crimes. He's demanding
a dismissal.
"[T]he
Government's entire theory of the case presupposes that the Malaysia
Attorney General's findings are factually and legally invalid," states
the court papers. "There is therefore no way for this litigation to
proceed without a ruling from this Court on whether the Malaysian
Attorney General's sovereign functions were illegitimate.".
Where does one begin.............
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