{"id":802,"date":"2026-05-13T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:40:53","slug":"1mdb-financier-jho-low-seeks-pardon-from-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"1MDB financier Jho Low seeks pardon from Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fugitive faces charges including corruption and money laundering in US and Malaysia for role he allegedly played in scandal<\/p>\n<p>The fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low, a central figure in the multibillion-dollar scandal at the state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), is reportedly seeking a pardon from the US president, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Low faces multiple charges including corruption and money laundering in the US and Malaysia for the important role he allegedly played in the misappropriation of at least $4.5bn (\u00a33.3bn) from 1MDB.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/13\/1mdb-financier-jho-low-seeks-pardon-from-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fugitive faces charges including corruption and money laundering in US and Malaysia for role he allegedly played in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}