Just passing through: how Malaysia keeps funding the people who leave
Over the past few weeks, three Malaysia stories hit the news that, on the surface, have nothing to do with each other. A government pension fund answered in Parliament for nearly RM200 million lost in a fish farming startup that turned out to be a fraud. A celebrity founder and her husband sat in a courtroom over money that came from two of the biggest state funds. And a quasi-crypto commune in Forest City had its license pulled by the local council and announced it was leaving.
A fraud, a trial, and a controversy. Three different casts, three different genres. And underneath all three sits…
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