2015 Journal and Sarawak Report stories
report
Document-based articles that mapped flows to accounts and to Jho Low. They are the first public evidence file most English readers saw.
The 1MDB record combines 2015 leaked-document journalism, U.S. civil forfeiture complaints, banker pleas, and the Malaysian SRC judgment -- several dockets, one fund.
No single jury tried the entire $4.5 billion theory. The public record is a stack of complaints, pleas, and one fully tried SRC case against Najib.
The items below are the pillars. They describe what courts and journalists published after the fact, not how to move money through shells.
report
Document-based articles that mapped flows to accounts and to Jho Low. They are the first public evidence file most English readers saw.
filing
Pleadings alleging diversion of more than $3.5 billion (later ~$4.5 billion in department statements) and listing specific assets as proceeds.
testimony
A Goldman partner's guilty plea describing bribery and laundering around the bond work -- the Wall Street admission of record.
judgment
The High Court judgment convicting Najib on seven counts, with a twelve-year term and RM210 million fine, later affirmed.
filing
Deferred-prosecution and related papers totaling about $2.9 billion with the U.S. and other authorities, plus value-return terms for Malaysia.
judgment
A Brooklyn jury's FCPA and money-laundering convictions of another former Goldman banker on the 1MDB bond facts.
Tried, convicted, affirmed -- the political principal's core Malaysian case.
Leissner plea and Ng conviction are complete trial-court facts (Ng subject to appeal).
Complaints and settlements are detailed; they are civil allegations resolved in part by consent, not one mega-verdict.
Central in pleadings; no completed personal criminal trial in custody as of the mid-2020s public record.
The evidence problem is stacking dockets without pretending they are one trial -- and without treating a fugitive as an unsolved theft.
Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.