KUALA LUMPUR: Former Astro chief executive officer Datuk Rohana Rozhan has returned US$10 million in assets linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) sovereign wealth fund.
The ex girlfriend of former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner returned the assets to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) last year after graft busters completed investigation into the case, Malay daily Utusan Malaysia reported today quoting sources.
However, the MACC did not elaborate on how Rohana had returned the 1MDB-linked money, including unspecified assets.
Sources told the daily that assets returned by Rohana had been channelled to the government.
The MACC, the daily reported, also considered the case as settled and its investigation against Rohana closed.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said, in a written reply in Parliament, yesterday said that the Attorney General's Chambers was unaware if Rohana had returned the US$10 million.
He reply was in response to a question from Lim Lip Eng (Pakatan Harapan-Kepong) who had asked the prime minister to state if Rohana had returned 1MDB-linked money totalling US$10 million to the government.
He had also asked how many of the 1MDB-related assets had been returned to the government.
In April last year, it was reported that the MACC was still investigating the case involving Rohana in connection with the money she received from Leissner.
It was also reported that the MACC had frozen Rohana's bank accounts and assets, and that the MACC was seeking to repatriate the money from her to be returned.
Rohana's link to the 1MDB funds started after she was accused of receiving US$10 million, which she is said to have used to purchase a house in London.
In the US trial of former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng, Leissner testified that he bought Rohana a US$10 million house in London after she threatened him over the 1MDB scandal.