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In April 2016, [[Mohd Nazifuddin Najib]], the son of Najib Razak, has been named in the [[Panama Papers]].<ref>{{cite news| title = Panama Papers: The Power Players| publisher = [[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]] |url=https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/| accessdate = April 3, 2016 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20160404030817/https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/|archivedate=4 April 2016 |deadurl=no}}</ref>

On 20 July 2016, [[United States Attorney General]] [[Loretta E. Lynch]] announced that the United States had filed a lawsuit against ''The Wolf of Wall Street'', [[Red Granite Pictures]] ''et al'' to seize assets believed to have been wrongly acquired using funds diverted from 1MDB.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/world/asia/1mdb-malaysia-us-assets-seized.html?_r=0 U.S. Targets $1 Billion in Assets in Malaysian Embezzlement Case. ''[[The New York Times]]'', 20 July 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016]</ref> Although Najib was not directly named in the suit, there were 32 references to a "Malaysian Official 1" who was described as a "relative" of Red Granite's co-founder [[Riza Aziz]], and who received USD681 million of diverted 1MDB money wired into his personal bank account in March 2013.<ref>[http://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/1MDB-Filing-07-20-2016.pdf US Department of Justice complaint paper: United States of America v. The Wolf of Wall Street Motion Picture. Retrieved 22 July 2016]</ref>

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