U.S. Moves to Seize Diamonds, a Picasso and Hollywood Films in Malaysian Case<br />A complaint filed on Thursday by the United States Justice Department seeks $540 million in assets, including a luxury yacht and expensive real estate,<br />that it says were bought with money stolen from a government fund in Malaysia overseen by the country’s prime minister, Najib Razak.<br />Here is the United States Justice Department complaint seeking to recover $540 million in assets<br />that it says were purchased with money stolen from 1MDB, a Malaysian government fund.<br />The complaint is also seeking to recover more than $25 million in assets from Mr. Aziz, a co-founder of the Hollywood production company Red Granite Pictures, including the rights to the films "Dumb and Dumber To" and "Daddy’s Home." Red Granite has said<br />that it is cooperating with the Justice Department and that it is seeking to resolve the case.<br />By RICHARD C. PADDOCKJUNE 16, 2017<br />BANGKOK — A Picasso painting given to the actor Leonardo DiCaprio, the rights to two Hollywood comedies<br />and a $27.3 million diamond necklace belonging to the wife of Malaysia’s prime minister are among half a billion dollars in assets sought by the United States in a widening money-laundering inquiry.<br />United States said that These cases involve billions of dollars<br />that should have been used to help the people of Malaysia, but instead was used by a small number of individuals to fuel their astonishing greed,<br />Together with a previous complaint, the Justice Department is seeking nearly $1.7 billion in assets it says were stolen from the fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad,<br />and laundered through financial institutions in the United States.
