Malaysia to auction off 1MDB-linked luxury handbags worth 'hundreds of thousands of ringgit'

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SINGAPORE: Malaysian authorities have seized 40 luxury handbags linked to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and are making arrangements to put them up for auction, a minister said on Thursday (Jun 8). The 4

and are making arrangements to put them up for auction, a minister said on Thursday .

The 40 handbags of assorted brands have an estimated value of"hundreds of thousands of ringgit", Minister in the Prime Minister's Department for Law and Institutional Reform Azalina Othman Said wrote in a reply to a question asked in parliament by Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng. Lim had asked the government to detail the assets and asset types tied to the misappropriation of 1MDB funds that it had seized.

In addition to the handbags, police had seized cash as well as money and interest from bank accounts totalling about RM66.96 million while the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission had seized RM16.06 million, Azalina said in her reply. The amount seized by police was placed into a special trust account under the Ministry of Finance, while the amount confiscated by MACC was placed in a government revenue account, she added.A post on former prime minister Najib Razak's Facebook page on Friday said that neither the money nor the handbags seized were linked to him or his family."The RM83 million was also not from Najib or his family. The law minister also didn't say it was from Najib or his family.

 

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