The atlas year is 2015, the public break. The fund is older; the judgments are later.
These entries are the ones the DOJ complaints and the SRC appeals court cite most often.
Timeline
- Fund created
The Terengganu Investment Authority becomes 1Malaysia Development Berhad, a federal development fund associated with Najib's government.
- Goldman bonds
Goldman Sachs arranges large 1MDB dollar bond issues (2012-2013). Fees later become central to FCPA and Malaysian criticism.
- Hollywood and luxury trail
Red Granite's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) later appears in DOJ complaints as alleged 1MDB-derived financing -- a cultural artifact attached to a forfeiture theory.
- Sarawak Report and Journal
Document-based reporting makes 1MDB a global English-language scandal, including stories about money in Najib's accounts.
- DOJ forfeiture complaints
The United States files civil actions seeking to forfeit assets as proceeds of 1MDB-related theft and laundering.
- Leissner plea; Malaysian election
Tim Leissner pleads guilty in the Eastern District of New York. Najib's coalition loses the general election; domestic prosecutions accelerate.
- Goldman resolutions
Goldman announces about $2.9 billion in settlements with the U.S. and other authorities related to 1MDB.
- Najib SRC conviction
On 28 July the High Court convicts Najib on seven SRC counts and imposes twelve years and RM210 million.
- Federal Court affirms
On 23 August Malaysia's Federal Court upholds the SRC conviction and sentence.
- Ng conviction (Brooklyn)
Roger Ng is convicted in the Eastern District of New York on FCPA and money-laundering charges related to the 1MDB bond work.
After 2022 the live files are remaining Malaysian trials, fugitive status, and custody conditions -- not a reopening of the SRC verdict's existence.
Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.