1MDB: World's Biggest Finacial Scandal
The Guardian 1MDB: The inside story of the world�s biggest financial scandal How a jailed former banker and a lone British journalist broke a story that shook the world by Randeep Ramesh Thursday 28 July 2016 19.24 BST O n 22 June 2015, Xavier Justo, a 48-year-old retired Swiss banker, walked towards the front door of his brand new boutique hotel on Koh Samui, a tropical Thai island. He had spent the past three years building the luxurious white-stone complex of chalets and apartments overlooking the shimmering sea and was almost ready to open for business. All he needed was a licence. Justo had arrived in Thailand four years earlier, having fled the drab world of finance in London. In 2011, he and his girlfriend Laura toured the country on a motorbike and, two years later, they got married on a secluded beach. The couple eventually settled down in Koh Samui, a tourist hotspot, just an hour�s flight south of Bangkok. After trying out a couple of entrepreneurial v...