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.

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The 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

Najib, Rosmah and Joseph.

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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.

Preet Bharara

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Following the report, which the Minister of Communication and Multimedia Salleh criticised as being based on rumours, access to Asia Sentinel in Malaysia has been blocked by the MCMC

However, the US embassy in KL has dismissed the said report:

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On the other hand, Rosmah has urged all companies to encourage their employees to wear batik on Thursdays to create more demand for the industry:

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