Skip to content
eventVerified

U.S. unseals criminal charges against Jho Low

On 1 November 2018 the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment in New York charging Jho Low and former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng with conspiring to launder billions of dollars taken from 1MDB and to bribe Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials.

Jho Low (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

Sources: [1][2][3]

Read the full account

On 1 November 2018 the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment in New York charging Jho Low and former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng with conspiring to launder billions of dollars taken from 1MDB and to bribe Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials. The same day another former Goldman banker, Tim Leissner, was revealed to have pleaded guilty. Low denies wrongdoing and remains a fugitive.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Jho Low

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    verified

    U.S. unseals criminal charges against Jho Low. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

No public driver impacts are listed for this fact.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified3 sources on file
  1. 1.malaysiakini.com — sourcemalaysiakini.com · verified
  2. 2.theguardian.com — sourcetheguardian.com · verified
  3. 3.businessinsider.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: low+charge+1mdb+leissner · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

No causal path is recorded: this fact is not linked to a driver.

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). U.S. unseals criminal charges against Jho Low. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/jho-low-criminally-charged-us-2018-11-01

https://factrail.ai/facts/jho-low-criminally-charged-us-2018-11-01

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

Dispute this factNamed here, or represent someone who is? Request a right of reply.