Najib Razak
Prime minister (2009-2018); convicted
Convicted 28 July 2020 on seven SRC International counts; sentence upheld 23 August 2022. Later clemency changed custody terms; the conviction remains on the record.
The 1MDB file spans cabinets, banks, and film producers. The six below are the ones the SRC judgment and the U.S. complaints keep returning to.
Roles are taken from the Malaysian judgment, DOJ pleadings, and the 2018-2022 banker cases.
People
Low Taek Jho (Jho Low)
Intermediary; fugitive in public record
Named throughout DOJ complaints as a central fixer. Not in custody in mid-2020s public reporting. Not the SRC trial defendant.
Tim Leissner
Former Goldman partner; cooperator
Pleaded guilty in 2018 to conspiring to launder money and to violate the FCPA in connection with 1MDB bond work.
Roger Ng
Former Goldman banker; convicted
Convicted in Brooklyn in 2022 on FCPA and money-laundering counts related to the same bond campaign. Appealed.
Clare Rewcastle Brown
Sarawak Report editor
Published 2015 document stories that, with the Journal, made the fund a global English-language case.
Riza Aziz
Red Granite principal
Najib's stepson and a producer associated with The Wolf of Wall Street. Appears in forfeiture and Malaysian files; not a substitute for the SRC verdict.
Goldman CEOs who testified to Congress and Malaysian attorneys-general who charged the cases are institutional actors; the six names above carry the narrative.
Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.