KUALA LUMPUR: Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, is living in a mansion in Shanghai, two investigative journalists who exposed the 1MDB scandal have claimed.
In a livestream last night, Bradley Hope and Tom Wright claimed that Low was living in Green Hills, a super high-end neighbourhood.
They said he was using a fake Australian passport under a Greek name, Constantinos Achilles Veis, according to a report by Variety.
In the “Finding Jho Low” livestream, Hope and Wright said their claim was based on evidence provided by various sources and new documents.
Last year, then Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said police were tracking down Low, but there were no leads on his whereabouts.
Previously, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the authorities could not establish if Low was in China.
Anwar said authorities were trying their best to locate Low and that one of the first things he did as prime minister was to call all enforcement agencies to do whatever they could to track him.
An Interpol Red Notice was issued in 2018 against Low, who was charged in Malaysia and the US over allegations that he orchestrated the theft of US$4.5 billion from 1MDB.