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Former Goldman Sachs banker sentenced to 10 years for 1MDB scandal

US District Judge Margo Brodie said in handing down the sentence that the 1MDB scandal was one of the biggest financial crimes in history

A former Goldman Sachs banker was sentenced on 9 March to 10 years in prison for helping to loot billions of dollars from a Malaysian sovereign-wealth fund in a global financial scandal that tarnished the Wall Street bank.

Roger Ng, a 51-year-old Malaysian national, was convicted last year in a New York federal court in Brooklyn of conspiring with a well-connected financier and a former Goldman partner to pay off officials to win lucrative business deals with 1Malaysia Development Bhd., a state-controlled economic-development company known as 1MDB.

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