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How Jho Low’s Gang Blasted Malaysia’s Millions At New Year!


Jho Low’s party guests gave the game away on Instagram!

As Prime Minister Najib Razak prepares to confront the country with a belt-tightening revised new budget for 2016, Sarawak Report can inform Malaysians how some of its missing development funds have been spent.

Fugitive billionaire Jho Low, who stole hundreds of millions from 1MDB, has been recorded on social media entertaining his gang of friends and co-conspirators to the most extravagant imaginable partying and waste in a series of New Year bashes across the globe.

The jaw-dropping debauchery even included renting two jumbo jets so that the looters could “double-countdown” 2013 — by celebrating New Year in both Sydney and Las Vegas on the same day. As one admiring hanger-on commented:

“Only JL can manage this for double countdowns 2013″

 
 
Two private jumbo jets packed full of celebrity pals heading from Sydney to Vegas — all thanks to Jho Low

The revellers also gloried in wasting millions of dollars in gambling chips… money that could have bought food and education for thousands of Malaysian kids.

 
 
 
“A good way to waste a million dollars” brag the partygoers, gambling away millions on one night of debauchery

The 15 hour long journey from Sydney to the US was capped by a chauffeur driven limo ride from the plane to the Vegas venue for their greedy second countdown.

 
 
Party goers bragged on Instagram about the entire event

Jasmine Who?
Significantly, as the trail of party pics and instagram records make clear, one member of this inner circle of Jho Low party groupies is none other than the diminutive Kuching lawyer and ex-UBG/1MDB employee Jasmine Loo.

Jasmine Loo is wanted in Malaysia for questioning over 1MDB

Loo is wanted by the Malaysian authorities for questioning over her role in channelling hundreds of millions of ringgit from 1MDB into Sarawak’s UBG buy out by Jho Low.

So far she has evaded arrest and is believed to have abandoned her flat in a swanky Manhattan block in New York (which at US$4 million would appear to be well out of the normal price range for an already retired 30-something Malaysian legal executive).

However, this very New Year, Jasmine was again hanging out with Jho Low’s top celebrity friends Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz in the posh French ski resort Corcheval.

The pals have been on several trips together, according to a mass of instagram evidence, which shows a sickening level of excess at the expense of ordinary Malaysians, whose money Jho Low looted from the 1MDB development fund controlled by his so-called ‘Big Boss’, Prime Minister Najib Razak.

 
 
Jasmine Loo (right) with Alicia Keys’ brother Cole Cook in the French ski resort of Corcheval over New Year

Also in the same party of ski revellers was none other than the Wolf of Wall Street producer and partner of Najib’s son Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland.

In a schmaltzy comment on their cosy line up, Keys’ brother exclaimed this band of friends have bonded over the years to become “family”. There is one common denominator, who brings all these hangers-on together and that is Jho Low.

 
 
Red Granite’s Joey McFarland with girlfriend Antoinette Costa and Alicia Keys’ brother and son

Sarawak Report has identified the core contingent of Jho Low’s party-guests, who have been pictured time and again at these gatherings since the original 1MDB heist of hundreds of millions of dollars in 2009.

These include the former celebrity booker cum film producer Joey McFarland and actors from Red Granite movies such as Jonah Hill; Jasmine Loo herself; the sons of Najib Razak and their close pals from Thailand; some key employees of Low’s Jynwel Capital, including his brother Szen Low and deputy Seet Li Lin, as well as the likes of Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Jamie Foxx, Paris Hilton and Leonardo Dicaprio.

Jho Low (centre) parties in Vegas with Hollywood stars Leonardo Dicaprio and Tobey Maguire

All have either participated in Low’s theft of Malaysia’s cash (like Loo and Seet) or enjoyed the fruits of his money through excessive partying and gambling and payments to their various charities and PR activities.

 
 
Jasmine and Alicia’s family on snowy holiday together

Indeed, with Jasmine in the know and on the run it appears that Jho Low has decided to keep this mousey nobody of a local lawyer as part of this ‘close family’ — even if that means including her in his key celebrity circle of flash Hollywood big shots.

 
 
Najib’s son Norashman, like step-son Riza frequently appears in the Jho Low circle of pampered party-goers

Private Jumbo hire so Jho Low’s crowd can celebrate a global NY
The level of debauchery and extravagance by the Jho Low ‘family of friends’ is best described through their own testimony.

In 2013 Hollywood rapper/actor Jamie Foxx (a regular beneficiary of Jho Low’s largesse with Malaysia’s stolen money) went on television to brag about the excesses of their New Year’s partying.
He had a “friend with some money”, Foxx coyly explained to gasping show host Jonathan Ross. That friend had hired two private jumbo jets, so that the well-paid celebrity pals could first enjoy New Year in Sydney and then fly to welcome it in a second time in Las Vegas!
“I got a friend, you know he got some money and he flew me, Leonardo Di Caprio, Jonah Hill and some other cats and we flew to Australia right. And we did the countdown in Australia then jumped back on a plane and then did the countdown in Vegas. That’s crazy! That was nuts!”

 
 
 
 
“I got a friend, he got some money” brags pal Jamie Foxx — time to ask how Jho Low got that money?

There is no doubt that the “friend” was Jho Low, because it was the same “family” of hangers on who indulged in this event — bragging to their pals “only JL can manage this”.

 
 
McFarland joins the 2nd NY party in Vegas strip club

True to form Joey McFarland was there to party in Vegas, whilst the party in Sydney on board yet another grandiose yacht involved the entire Jho Low family, before the revellers filled two entire jets for the 15 hour trip to Vegas

 
 
Thanks to the hosts behind all the extravagance!

The circle of friends were gushing their thanks to the “Low family” for the supposedly fabulous occasion hosted by them on the fancy yacht in Sydney.

 
 
Cool guests including Leonardo and Jamie on the Low funded yacht in Sydney

Sarawak Report has established that by this date not only had Jho Low himself siphoned over US$1 billion directly from 1MDB, he had passed some US$530 million of that money from the company Good Star’s account into his private account at BSI Bank in Singapore.

 
 
Party on board….

Information from Switzerland has also indicated that his father Larry Low was a recipient of some of the remaining multi-millions from the Good Star account, a matter currently under investigation by the Swiss authorities.

 
 
Jamie Foxx, DJ Chuckie, Jho Low and father Larry Low on their private yacht in Sydney
 
 
Jho Low parties with the gang in Las Vegas
 
 
Jasmine Loo (right) at the Las Vegas party
 
 
P Diddy joins the Vegas party along with various entertainers….

Not so Halal
It is worth noting that these humongously extravagant events have always involved extensive debauchery at the expense of Malaysian taxpayers, who are being increasingly lectured and harangued about ‘halal’ values by the government of Jho Low’s patron Najib Razak.

 
 
Low’s Thai pals bragged about baths with 200 bottles of top priced Crystal champagne

As the photos amply show, money that ought to have been spent on milk and education for Malaysia’s poorest children has been splurged by the millions on gambling chips and the world’s most expensive wines and champagnes for wealthy stars like Leonardo Di Caprio.

 
Jho Low favourite Paris Hilton joins the Vegas crowd — later party, same champagne

Dicaprio’s PR machine meanwhile works overtime promoting his image as an environmentalist and indigenous rights campaigner.

The common themes of these party events, as insiders have detailed to Sarawak Report, is the hiring of women in a state of extensive undress, drunkenness, the availability of drugs and massive gambling.

 
 
Drinking a bath
 
 
And private gambling…

None of Jho Low’s circle of sychophants in Hollywood have yet responded to the information about 1MDB.

To the contrary, Leonardo Dicaprio is gearing up to star in the next Red Granite movie for millions of dollars, whilst Alicia Keys has also taken millions for her charities from Low and was there with her family this very New Year in Corcheval with all Jho’s pals.

 
 
Joey and the boys living it up with Jasmine this NY in Corcheval

More skiing with the in-crowd for Jasmine — Whistler 2012/3
Back in 2013 the Jho Low ‘family of friends’ went on celebrating it large in lavish style following their Sydney/Vegas New Year extravaganza, according to their bragging instagram records. After the “double count-down” the party travelled on for a week of further spectacular merry-making at a top ski resort, Whistler in Canada.

Their party host, Jho Low, had planned out this further week of organised luxury, clearly again at his own expense and sent his guests a full itinerary for the trip:

 
 
Itinerary days 1–3 — uploaded onto instagram by the bragging guests

Unlike his guests the tubby Jho Low has not been photographed on the slopes himself, mainly contenting himself with the apres ski it appears.

 
 
Second half of the extravagant family holiday bestowed on Alicia Keys, husband Swizz Beatz and various family members and friends.

The highlight of this Canada trip, according to gushing instagram uploads, was a trip to an “ice castle” decorated with 10,001 red roses in mid-winter for their delectation.
“Only J L can make these happen” gushed Jho Low’s ecstatic hangers-on once again!

 
 
Only Jho Low can make all this happen (thanks to his stolen public money)

Is PM Najib Razak really so willing to let the Orang Asli and Orang Ulu suffer, just so that these pampered kids and celebrity side-kicks can have their fun? Sadly, the answer seems to be yes.
Hanging onto the party waggon from start to end was none other, of course, than Jamine Loo:

 
 
What a joke for Jasmine, the lawyer who masterminded the UBG deal from inside 1MDB!

And in February 2015, Jasmine Loo hit the slopes of Whistler once again thanks to her ‘family’ status with Jho Low and his current top celebrity Alicia Keys, according to the same records on instagram.

 
 
Jasmine Loo (Left) and Alicia Keys’ brother Cole Cook (Right) skiing in Whistler

Throughout all this frolicking the pictures leave no doubt about the close connections between this group of Jho Low groupies, who describe themselves as “the boys”. They include his business colleagues, such as brother Szen Low and Seet Li Lin, as well as two wealthy Thai brothers from the Songthaveepol family, who have recorded these events — and also the son and steps son of Najib Razak.



Najib’s son Norashman Najib (centre-right) with Jho Low’s friends, the Songthaveepol brothers

Indeed, the Malaysian Prime Ministerial connection is frequently alluded to on the tell tale instagram accounts located by Sarawak Report. The party puppies have even landed themselves a trip on Malaysia’s publicly funded prime ministerial jet — a freebie that could only have been authorised by Najib himself.

 
 
In with the in crowd? — Jho Low’s clique get to ride in Najib’s jet

Invitations and dinner line ups with Jho Low’s ‘Big Boss’ also feature on the Songthaveepol brothers’ instagram records — these extravagant playboys are Malaysia’s hangers on, benefitting from public funds to an extraordinary degree, courtesy of 1MDB and its pilfered funds.

 
 
Honoured by Najib
 
 
Top table for the well connected rich kids

Destination Vegas!
The destinations of Jho Low’s party set also make an extremely telling insight into 1MDB’s business connections, which he has so excessively mixed with his own pleasure.

Sarawak Report has already investigated and detailed the fraudulent tycoon’s close connections with Abu Dhabi’s sacked former Aabar/IPIC boss Khadem Al Qubaisi, who has invested billions into nightclubs in Las Vegas and beyond, through his questionable Hakkasan Group.

Hakkasan’s night clubs have provided a repeat venue for many of Jho Low’s expensive jaunts. Just a few weeks ago the gang were all over at Wet Republic, one of the chain’s newest openings


 
 
Hanging round Hakkasan, the Al Qubaisi chain fronted by ex-bar owner Neil Moffit.

Al Qubaisi has also invested huge sums in the South of France, where Jho Low’s groupies have also regularly hung out, especially on the luxury yacht circuit.

Jho Low took delivery of his own personal super-yacht Equanimity in 2014, but before that his gang of friends were treated to several extravaganzas aboard various hired boats. As they proudly announce, this is Jho Low’s “style”, meaning disgusting extravagance with money stolen from the poor of Malaysia?

Originally published at www.sarawakreport.org.
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