Malaysia has arrested Jasmine Loo, but is uninterested in fellow conspirator Tiffany Heah, who remains in tax practise in the US- Tiffany's part in the 1MDB theft was revealed by Sarawak Report in 2015

By Ganesh Sahathevan 

 by Ganesh Sahathevan




Tiffany Heah, aka Lee Lin Heah was, together with Jasmine Loo, a member of Joh Low's team tha stole from 1MDB.

 Sarawak Report detailed her part in the theft in  2015:

Email exchanges show how the PetroSaudi Directors collaborated with Low, Li Lin Seet and Tiffany Heah on how they would present the company to the team from 1MDB. They drew up what they called a Storyline for their Conference Call and Seet opened up with a number of suggestions:

Our research has shown that this careful repayment provision had been written in to the very first draft of the agreement, provided by Jho Low’s own legal team in New York, which was sent over to PetroSaudi by lawyer Tiffany Heah.

From: Tiffany Heah
To: Patrick Mahony
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:36:37 -0400
Subject: JVA
Attachment(s): 1

DRAFT ORIGINAL JOINT VENTURE DOCUMENT FROM JHO LOW’S LAWYERS

                                                             Jho Low’s lawyer, Tiffany Heah






Unlike Jasmine Loo who has just been arrested, the Government Of Malaysia seems uninterested in Tiffany. So free is she that she continues to practise law in the US.






TIFFANY HEAH


tiffany@golbertlaw.com

Prior to joining the firm, Tiffany has been working as an attorney in Malaysia for 8 years in corporate and commercial areas. She has been involved in corporate advisory work and a variety of transactions ranging from mergers and acquisitions, establishing exchange traded and private equity funds, and acquisitions of real property. Since joining the firm, her focus has shifted to taxation of trusts and estates, and investment and estate planning. Her prior and current experiences have enabled her to conceive and develop tax programs and structures which are as commercially viable as they are efficient.

 

 

Representative Matters

Advise clients on various business transactions ranging from the acquisition of a winery business in Washington State, to investment in a beverage business in California.
Advise clients on creation of entities and structures through which to own and manage investment portfolios and assets in the US and abroad.
Advise clients on their personal estate planning from creating living trusts and pour-over wills to transferring of real and personal assets into the trust while avoiding basis change.
Advise clients on tax implications of sundry transactions including inbound or outbound investments, as well as unforeseen events such as restitution of foreign seized assets or the accidental discovery that a nonresident alien had become a tax resident of the US.
Assist clients in becoming tax compliant following inadvertent failure to file prescribed forms for notice of foreign bank accounts or business assets, or receipt of a foreign gift or inheritance, by preparing Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program applications.
Assist clients in forming non-profit entities and in obtaining tax exempt status from both Federal and State fiscal authorities.

Professional Associations and Memberships

American Bar Association
State Bar of California – International Tax Section
Beverly Hills Bar Association – Executive Committee, Taxation Section

Admission

California (2013)
Malaysia (2004)

Education

University of Southern California (LL.M.) (2012)
King’s College London, United Kingdom (LL.B.) (2002)
University of London (External Program) (1999)

Languages

English, Malay, Hokkien (Chinese)

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