Goldman Banker’s Trial Over Malaysia's 1MDB Paused

The trial of Roger Ng, a former banker at Goldman Sachs charged in connection with the multi-billion-dollar Malaysian 1MDB scandal, will be put on hold after US prosecutors admitted they failed to provide thousands of documents to the defence team, the Financial Times reported.

A Department of Justice team had failed to provide the prosecution and the defence with about 15,500 documents from email accounts and a laptop belonging to Tim Leissner, a former Goldman Sachs partner who has been the government’s star witness.

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