The China Contract - How The World’s Biggest Financial Scandal Was Covered Up (Book launch)

Wed 18 Nov · LSE Cheng Kin Ku Building · WC2A

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LSE Skip to main content 18 Nov The China Contract - How The World’s Biggest Financial Scandal Was Covered Up (Book launch) Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre LSE Cheng Kin Ku Building, Room 1.04 (CKK.1.04) Wednesday 18 November 2026 5pm - 6.15pm Speaker Clare Rewcastle Brown Chair Professor John Sidel By mid-2016, the record-breaking $5 billion theft from the Malaysian sovereign fund 1MDB had been exposed and the prime minister of that country, the suave, British-educated Najib Razak, was on the ropes.

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