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Deloitte to Pay Malaysia $80 Million in 1MDB-Related Settlement

Deloitte to Pay Malaysia $80 Million in 1MDB-Related Settlement

Deloitte PLT agreed to a 324-million ringgit ($80 million) settlement with the Malaysian government to resolve all claims related to the firm’s audit of 1MDB and its former unit SRC International between 2011-2014.
The payout is the largest 1MDB-related settlement by an audit firm in Southeast Asia, the Finance Ministry said in a statement Wednesday. It comes less than a week after a local lender agreed to a 2.83-billion ringgit settlement over its involvement in transactions related to the state investment company.

“This marks another success in the Malaysian government’s continuing recovery efforts against parties involved in 1MDB, SRC and its related entities,” Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz said in the statement.

Malaysia in 2019 imposed the maximum fine on Deloitte PLT for breaches related to a bond issuance by 1MDB, becoming the first auditor of the scandal-ridden fund to face penalties. The fund was started to lure investments to the country, but instead became the center of worldwide probes into possible corruption and money laundering.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. last year admitted its role in the biggest foreign bribery case in U.S. enforcement history, reaching multiple international settlements in the billions of dollars to end probes into its fundraising for 1MDB.

The accord with Deloitte will speed up the payment of monies to meet 1MDB and SRC’s outstanding obligations, which would otherwise be delayed by lengthy and costly court battles, the Finance Ministry said.
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