Did Rosmah Ask US To Call Off Their FBI Probe Against 1MDB?
The Asia Sentinel has alleged that PM Najib Razak's wife Rosmah Mansor had contacted US Ambassador Joseph Y. Yun to strongarm him into calling off an investigation related to 1MDB.
Cover image via MalaysiakiniThe Asia Sentinel, in a report published on 28 March, alleged that:
The website also alleged that "the story" of Rosmah's attempts to strongarm the US investigation has been "circulating widely in Kuala Lumpur's small diplomatic circles", citing unnamed sources
The report also claimed that Joseph apparently told Rosmah that the United States Attorney operated so independently that not even President Barack Obama would be able to influence the probe
It quoted an unnamed source as saying: *"She (Rosmah) has been told, 'If you have done nothing wrong, don't worry about it. The United States is a country of laws'."*
Furthermore, the *Asia Sentinel*, while citing someone who they claim is a "longtime observer of local politics, claimed that Najib and his family "aren't scared of anything in Malaysia, but are scared of this guy Preet Bharara", the Pakistani-born US law enforcement officer who has prosecuted nearly 100 Wall Street executives.

