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Bradley Hope

Bradley Hope

Journalist

Aug 19, 2026

2:37
Can you describe a little bit his alleged role in this and some of the allegations against him?
2:43
Uh, coincidentally, uh, Prime Minister Najib Razak visited Donald Trump in the White House, um, you know, for a, for a official state meeting recently.
2:52
Um, so at the, at the center of the whole alleged scheme is this Malaysian financier called Jho Low, and he was very close with the family of the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
3:03
And what basically ha- uh, happened, it now appears, is that as the money was siphoned away from the fund, it made this, this incredible circ- circuitous journey in the offshore world before being partially transferred back into the Prime Minister's bank accounts, um, in Malaysia.
3:23
And the, the total that was transferred in is more than $1 billion.
3:28
The, the, there's one particular transfer of 681 million that's really gotten the most attention, but there was, there was almost, um, 300 million before that as well.
3:37
And he used that money to, um, fund his political campaign that he won.

16 MINS LATER

19:18
But the Saudi position on that seems to be slightly different.
7:46
He's the co-author of the book Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power.
7:53
Born in 1985, he, you know, grew up with technology.
7:57
He loves it, spent a lot of time playing video games, had an absolute fascination with the great entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley.
8:06
He created a manga company at one point 'cause he was really interested in Japanese manga.
8:11
He really had no conception whatsoever of one day becoming the ruler of Saudi Arabia.

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32:36
Davos of the desert.
32:39
Technology.
32:42
New frontiers.

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