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Malaysia CDS Spike After Abu Dhabi Puts Scandal-Ridden 1MDB In Default

Malaysia CDS Spike After Abu Dhabi Puts Scandal-Ridden 1MDB In Default

Over the better part of the past year, we’ve documented the curious case of 1MDB, Malaysia’s government investment fund founded in 2009.

It’s a long and exceptionally convoluted story that doesn’t exactly lend itself to a concise summary but suffice to say that the development bank was something of a black box right from the beginning and in 2013, some $680 million allegedly tied to 1MDB ended up in Malaysian PM Najib Razak’s personal bank account just prior to an election.