Exclusive | Fugitive Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho ‘stayed in upscale Hong Kong apartments before Macau trip’, despite Interpol red notice over 1MDB corruption scandal

Wanted financier thought to have managed to slip from one city to the other last week because neither Malaysia nor Singapore formally requested his arrest

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Jho Low has denied involvement in any 1MDB corruption. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Published: 9:02pm, 7 Jul 2018Updated: 5:45pm, 17 Dec 2019

Fugitive Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho and his family were allowed to slip out of Hong Kong to Macau last week because neither Malaysia nor Singapore formally requested his arrest, the Post has learned.

He and his entourage were hiding in plain sight in Admiralty, on Hong Kong Island, occupying multiple rooms at the upscale Pacific Place Apartments before leaving for the casino hub, a source with knowledge of Low’s recent movements said.

And as of Saturday, 37-year-old Low – known as Jho Low – was still in Macau, the source revealed.

The baby-faced playboy – who owned homes in New York and Los Angeles, partied with some of the world’s biggest film stars and once flew eight hostesses from a New York bar to a party in Kuala Lumpur – is wanted for questioning in connection with one of the world’s biggest frauds, revolving around 1MDB, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund.

Low has reportedly been on the move since before Malaysia’s general election in May. He waited out the result of the vote in Phuket, Thailand, where he arrived having sailed around Asia on a luxury yacht allegedly bought with stolen cash.

The yacht has been seized by police investigating the 1MDB scandal.