Global Focus
Vol 3, No 1 (2023)

Tracking the Money: The Case of 1MDB Scandal




Article Info

Publish Date
09 May 2023

Abstract

The UN estimated US$800 billion to US$2 trillion is laundered every year. But unfortunately, about 90% of this amount remains undetectable to this day. This money laundering activity performs money laundering services on behalf of other people as their core business and is usually carried out in a different country. In this case, of course, money laundering becomes a complex transnational crime. This crime is widespread throughout the world, including in Malaysia. Malaysia is a country with an upper-middle-income economy that is very open to exposure to various threats of money laundering. According to Money Laundering Risk in 2022 data by the Basel Institute of Governance, Malaysia ranks 54th out of 128 countries with a score of 5.33 where a score of 10 indicates the highest risk. Even though Malaysia has the instruments to detect criminal acts, unfortunately, cooperation and political will are still considered lacking, making it difficult to eradicate it. This paper was compiled to identify money laundering in transnational crimes, and also to analyze the model of condition and model of operation in the 1MDB corruption case.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

globalfocus

Publisher

Subject

Social Sciences

Description

Global Focus is a bilingual peer-reviewed journal that issues bi-annually in April and October. The Journal is managed and published by the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya. Global Focus is an interdisciplinary journal that ...