Police tight-lipped over claims fugitive Malaysian businessman Jho Low fled to Macau from Hong Kong
Hong Kong and Macau authorities silent after police official in Kuala Lumpur tells media that Malaysian financier at centre of country’s 1MDB scandal was thought to be in hiding
Authorities in Hong Kong and Macau were on Thursday night tight-lipped over claims that a fugitive businessman wanted in connection with a corruption scandal engulfing former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak had slipped the net and was hiding out in the casino hub.
A senior police official in Kuala Lumpur told the Malaysian media on Thursday that Low Taek Jho, who is wanted by law enforcement agencies in several jurisdictions over the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, was in Macau having fled there from Hong Kong.
Malaysia’s Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun said the businessman – who is widely known as Jho Low – had apparently evaded police arrest before arriving in the city.
“The other day we sent our team to Hong Kong, but immediately when we arrived there, he left for Macau. That is the latest we know about him,” Harun said on Thursday.
The claim comes a day after Malaysia’s immigration department chief, Mustafar Ali, said Low’s Malaysian passport had been invalidated. The fugitive businessman is understood to hold a second passport from St Kitts and Nevis, a tropical island off Puerto Rico.
