Ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng raises mental health before 1MDB sentencing
Ng, 51, faces sentencing Thursday before US District Judge Margo Brodie in Brooklyn, New York. The former managing director, who was found guilty in April, said in a letter to the judge on Wednesday that a court-appointed psychiatrist found he suffers from chronic post-traumatic stress disorder .
Mr Agnifilo on Wednesday also argued that Ng deserves leniency because the Malaysian government “has been made whole” because he relinquished claims to $35.1 million that it seized from his accounts.“Roger Ng played a critical role in a massive bribery and money laundering scheme that stole billions of dollars intended for infrastructure and economic projects to aid the Malaysian people,” prosecutors said in court papers.
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak received $756 million and Khadem al-Qubaisi, a former managing director of Abu Dhabi’s state-owned International Petroleum Investment Co, which guaranteed the 1MDB transactions, got $472.8 million, a forensic accountant with the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified at Ng’s trial.
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