Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s charismatic ‘man who would be leader’, is very clear and very insistent. And Goldman Sachs’ chief executive David Solomon, among others in international banking and finance, would be well advised to take heed.
“Goldman Sachs has to pay,” Anwar declares, during an expansive interview with Euromoney in Kuala Lumpur in mid November. “It’s just not what was taken but also what we lost.”
Anwar is talking, of course, about the deep, still-weeping wound that has infected Malaysia’s economy and politics for much of the last decade, the systemic official pillaging of as much as $10 billion from one of the country’s state-owned investment companies, One Malaysia Development Berhad, better known by its now notorious initials, 1MDB.
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