1MDB trial: Leissner reveals affair with ex-Astro CEO Rohana Rozhan, buys her silence with US$10mil home
London property gifted after she threatened to expose my involvement, says ex-Goldman Sachs banker

Updated 1 hour ago · Published on 23 Feb 2022 11:12AM

[UPDATED] 1MDB trial: Leissner reveals affair with ex-Astro CEO Rohana Rozhan, buys her silence with US$10mil home

Former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner’s in his testimony in the 1MDB trial disclosed his affair with ex-CEO Rohana Rozhan (pic) saying she threatened to expose his involvement with 1MDB if he did not buy her the US$10 million London home. – Nikkei Asian Review pic, February 23, 2022
KUALA LUMPUR – Former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner’s testimony in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) trial in the United States turned salacious after he revealed having an affair with Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd former CEO Rohana Rozhan and the S$10 million (RM31.1 million) home he gifted her.

He alleged that he bought her a US$10 million (RM41.85 million) home in London in 2013 after she had threatened to expose his involvement with 1MDB and that the relationship was from 2003 to 2013, reported Bloomberg.

“Ms Rozhan was very upset that I was ending our relationship to be with my future wife, with Kimora,” Leissner was quoted as telling the jury, referring to his wife Kimora Lee Simmons.

“If I didn’t buy her a house, she would tell the authorities about my involvement in the 1MDB scandal. She was threatening to expose me. At the time, 2013, I was very fearful of that.”

He added that he disclosed his affair with Rohana to his then boss, former Goldman Asia head Richard Gnodde.

Leissner claimed that it was a sensitive issue because the investment bank had businesses with Astro and Gnodde told him “be careful about relationships with clients”.

“Pretty much everybody in our Southeast Asia territory knew it.”

Rohana left Astro in 2019.

Leissner is the prosecution’s star witness in the criminal trial involving former Goldman Sachs colleague Roger Ng. Leissner also pleaded guilty in 2018 to a count of conspiracy to violate US anti-bribery laws and to conspiring to launder money.

Ng is the only former Goldman banker to go on trial for his involvement in the 1MDB scandal.

In his testimony today, Leissner also dropped a bombshell revelation on former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who allegedly wanted to secure jobs for his three children with Goldman.

Leissner, 52, testified that his ex-boss Lloyd Blankfein’s meeting with Najib in 2009 came with an agenda and it took place before the bank’s mega bond deals for 1MDB.

He added that he was told by Ng that Najib would be in New York to visit his children for the Thanksgiving holiday.

He alleged that fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, said it would be good for Blankfein and Najib to meet.

Leissner said after a meeting with Najib, Ng said the Malaysian prime minister wanted jobs for his children at Goldman.

“Just met PM’s three children at his apartment, am with Jho at his apartment,” Leissner read to the jury from an email.

He said Ng added: “Meeting him again tomorrow and will work at getting his three children to join Goldman Sachs.”

Leissner then said he did not express any qualms as “the prime minister of Malaysia was potentially great business for us, so I felt having the children of the prime minister work for us would potentially be seen, not just for the prime minister”, but “all others in Asia would take notice”.

He added that he later helped get Najib’s daughter a job at TPG, which is an American investment company.

Leissner last week told the court that it was “greed and ambition” that motivated his involvement in the 1MDB deal.

He said bringing 1MDB’s multi-million-dollar deal with the United States investment bank “instantaneously made us heroes”.

He alleged that Ng had in 2008 fostered a relationship with fugitive Low, who was then the intermediary between Goldman and 1MDB, Reuters reported.

It later led to Goldman selling US$6.5 billion in bonds for 1MDB and making US$600 million in fees.

“My greed and ambition took over,” Leissner was quoted as saying, and that the repercussions had destroyed his life.

“The main focus for me was whatever it takes to get these transactions done for Goldman Sachs.”

Leissner also testified that Low made a list of people in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi who needed to be bribed to ensure that the 1MDB plan was approved. Among the names in his testimony were Najib and United Arab Emirates Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour.

A day before, Alex Cohen testified in Ng’s trial. Cohen is the chief financial officer of Strategic Group, an entertainment and marketing company that organised parties for Low.

He told the court that millions of dollars drained in the 1MDB scandal were spent by Low on luxurious parties and celebrity guests.

According to Bloomberg, Cohen testified that Low had provided Strategic Group with at least 25% of its profits in 2012, paying US$5,000 just for the talent scouting for one particular event – all with the roughly US$700 million allegedly sourced by Low from 1MDB.

The jury in Brooklyn, New York, also heard about invoices from a Las Vegas party for Low, where expenses such as food, beverages, “talent” and “top quality models” added up to more than US$3.6 million.

Ng, 49, is facing accusations of pocketing millions of dollars in kickbacks in the 1MDB deal, with allegations of money laundering and violating anti-bribery laws.

Low was charged in the US in 2018, however, he remains a fugitive. – The Vibes, February 23, 2022



https://www.thevibes.com/articles/news/5488...ormer-astro-ceo

This post has been edited by jvcpcv55: Feb 23 2022, 01:44 PM

Lets hear from Datok Rozhan to deny the allegations or send in some hot lawyers to sue him...its getting juicer.

Former Goldman Sachs partner Tim Leissner testified in a US court yesterday that he bought a US$10 million home in London for former Astro CEO Rohana Rozhan, with whom he was having an affair, after she threatened to expose his involvement in the 1MDB scandal.

Leissner, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to conspiring to launder money and violate US anti-bribery laws, said he bought Rohana the house in London in 2013 as she was “very upset” that he was ending their 10-year relationship to be with Kimora Lee Simmons, whom he later married.

“If I didn’t buy her a house, she would tell the authorities about my involvement in the 1MDB scandal. She was threatening to expose me. At the time, 2013, I was very fearful of that,” he was quoted as saying in a report by Bloomberg.


Leissner was chief of Goldman’s Southeast Asia operation and is testifying in the criminal trial of Roger Ng, the bank’s former head of investment banking in Malaysia.

He previously said that Ng was Goldman’s lead banker on 1MDB and had cultivated a relationship since 2008 with Penang businessman Low Taek Jho, who was the key intermediary between the bank and 1MDB.

Prosecutors have accused Ng of receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks for helping embezzle funds from 1MDB. Ng himself has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to launder money and to violate an anti-bribery law.

Speaking in court yesterday, Leissner said his relationship with Rohana was a “sensitive issue” as the bank did business with Astro.

He also said that his boss at the time, former Asia head Richard Gnodde, had urged him to “be careful about relationships with clients”.

Nonetheless, he said the affair had lasted from 2003 to 2013.

Ng’s lawyers previously sought to portray Leissner as a socialite who stole to finance a lavish lifestyle.


Prosecutors however said that Leissner’s testimony would be backed up by other evidence.

“He’ll give you an inside view of this bribery and money laundering scheme,” prosecutor Brent Wible was quoted as saying by Reuters.

https://www.malaysianow.com/news/2022/02/23...1mdb-blackmail/

Sibeh expensive yo

bossku suci murni

Gold digger

he said the affair had lasted from 2003 to 2013.

10 years relationship / US$10 million

1 year USD 1 million

1 day USD 2,739

1 hour USD 114

1 minute USD 1.90

1 second USD 0.03

Those involved pleaded guilty but the person charged cakap sendiri innocent. Then post fb say orang fitnah dia lol

1 day Rm11k
Massat 36 rounds.

wah, didn't know Rohana Rozhan was so thirsty. where is she now anyway?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohana-rozhan-7...nalSubdomain=my

ask her yourself

don't use linkedin

ふふふふふふ~~

great

10 years relationship tetiba kena dump for another. marah liao, kikis jangan tak kikis but if she knew about 1MDB for the get-go tar her with the same brush as the others.

so in the end, najib's kids got those jobs or not?

this job for najib children, did they really do the works or just auto payment receive each month with no work to do.

However, Leissner was quoted as saying that he only helped Najib’s daughter Nooryana Najwa get a job at TPG Capital.

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/202...eals-ex/2043378

too bad so many malaysians wont even hear about this, and they only listen to the politicians side of the story

https://www.penews.com/articles/tpg-malaysi...buyout-20140206

TPG Hires Malaysian Prime Minister's Daughter for Asian Role
Buyout firm looks to high-profile family for Asia investor relations appointment

By Sonja Cheung and Shasha Dai
Thursday February 6, 2014 6:23 pm
TPG Capital hired the daughter of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak as one of its investor relations professionals in Asia, said people familiar with the situation.

Nooryana Najwa Najib, one of two children from the prime minister's second marriage, is still earning her stripes as a private equity newcomer after graduating from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 2011. She holds a bachelor of science degree in foreign service, according to the university. The children of politicians have long found a path into major banks and private equity firms, but such hires have come under more scrutiny since news last year that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. was being investigated by U.S. and international regulators for its hiring in Asia. U.S. investigators are focused on whether the children of Chinese officials may have been hired in order to win business for the bank, according to The Wall Street Journal.

J.P. Morgan declined to comment.

TPG has taken the precaution of excluding Ms. Najib from involvement in any business the firm has in Malaysia, said an investor whose firm has previously backed TPG's Asian funds.

Ms. Najib couldn't be reached for comment.

Investor relations staff can play an important role in helping to raise capital and TPG is raising its sixth pan-Asian fund. The Fort Worth, Texas, firm spent most of last year struggling to secure new capital in the face of competition from other U.S. buyout houses, such as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. which was fundraising around the same time. Investors said TPG is roughly at the $2 billion mark for what could be a $3 billion or $3.5 billion fund, which would bring the firm in shy of its original $4 billion target.

In contrast, KKR secured a $6 billion final close for its second Asian-focused fund, KKR Asian II Fund, in July last year.

In China, "princelings" who are sons or daughters of political heavyweights are often employed at private equity houses to open doors to new deals, while the family name often draws investors' attention. China's princeling funds include Nepoch Capital, which was set up by the son of an ex-Politburo member, and New Horizon Capital, a private-equity firm co-founded by Winston Wen, the son of former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

Article continues below


TPG has made several crucial hires in Asia in recent months. Last year, the firm tapped Senior Partner Tim Dattels to co-head its Asian operations, as a replacement to managing partner Stephen Peel. Hong Kong-based Mr. Peel previously oversaw TPG's activity in China and India. More recently, TPG last month appointed Ganen Sarvanathan, from Malaysian government investment arm Khazanah Nasional Bhd., as a partner and managing director in its Asian business.

In the last couple of years, Southeast Asia has become more important to private equity firms, which are betting on those countries' economic growth prospects, an expanding middle class and increased consumer spending power. Private equity firm Northstar Group, which counts TPG as one of its shareholders, is one general partner that invests in the region, and was set out to raise a $1 billion fund last year.



This post has been edited by jvcpcv55: Feb 23 2022, 03:15 PM

time to use ulti

SUMPAH LAKNAT CARD!!!

He couldn’t resist trying some Malaysian delights

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/reco...case-due-nov-26

Really proud of M'sia gold digger

abalone seller ?

For centuries nobody can figure out how to turn lead into gold

But she find out how to turn abalone into usd10m house

Siapa ckp melayu mundurrrrrrr

10 million that time is equal to 40 million ringgit ++..

what is so great bout that pussy? with that money - you basically can change Japanese/Russia virgin every week

media seems interested in this lame romance part of Tim Leisner compared to other crazy hot part which involve Zeti Aziz directly, crazy Governor power to give green light to let go 1 billion in one night out from our system,all because of the profit from the bond flipping....

speaking from experience???

Do you know everyday how much money in / out of Malaysia?
is it Zeti job to monitor the purpose of 1 billion? ?

during that time 1MDB seems like doing legit business
headed by najib
advice by najib
approved by najib

This post has been edited by jvcpcv55: Feb 23 2022, 03:35 PM

CB, but still Najib denied

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...obs-says-najib/

Najib punya balaci tak datang plotek lagi ka?

meanwhile.... berita ini tak ada....

so many hidden 'extra' characters..
if 1MDB was made drama, probably would have interesting plot..

if you have read the article, you would know.

that's her territory, and it's a big money approval in one day,Tim Leisner say it's the fastest approval ever,well some of those money goes to Zeti anyway in Singapore, PetroSaudi too got some from it and Jho Low too.....

meanwhile, show your source in pdf not jpeg

U can put there Tim confessed of bribing zeti’s husband, as the headline.
But no, Najib name will get u more clicks 🤣

"and it's a big money approval in one day"

so
you expecting
zeti to approve it in 7 days?
or
Zeti to release 100k per day?

looks like you have no idea how much money in /out of Malaysia per day.

and you need to recheck your facts,
US$15.4m 1MDB-linked funds transferred to Zeti's husband's company .
not zeti

not to be a dick bout it . but facts.

imagine someone offer my wife / your wife us 1 million .

u think they will reject? maybe 1/10 will ..

other 9/10 .. lets go.

don't need to divert attention

show your source in pdf not jpeg

1. post your wife's photo here,
2. go ask your wife and let us know,

maybe got sugar daddy interested.

today we know, that money from TIA $1 billion bond flipping goes to them anyway,off coz it's damn fast coz she got the robbery share too, and in 2009, it's still a global financial crisis,capital outflow is heavily on guard, so makes her look like the real pencuri now, Tangkap Zeti....

no need to be technical like twisted lawyer here about Zeti and his husband, doesn't matter, she did it for the family anyway...

This post has been edited by yongku99: Feb 23 2022, 03:55 PM

INDECENT PROPOSAL

Malaysian version

why jump around??
so difficult for you to answer??
you expecting
zeti to approve it in 7 days?
or
Zeti to release 100k per day?

looks like you have no idea how much money in /out of Malaysia per day.

and you need to recheck your facts,
US$15.4m 1MDB-linked funds transferred to Zeti's husband's company .
not zeti
if follow your logic, "no need to be technical like twisted lawyer"
since najib go to jail,
then rosmah and sons + daughter & grandsons should go to jail too,

Brock?

group of helang suka songlap, rakyat marehsia banyak sokong

no point suing him already... he is going to jail for don't know how long...

plus in order to sue him, need to determine which court.... in Malaysia, no point.

I think there was a movie on this premise...

Im only interested if theres leak and play backside.

This part is the bond from TIA, still under Terengganu gov technically before it switch to 1MDB...

astro channel berapa ni, pay per view got ?

Look how shocked Tim Leisner and Roger Ng to see that money going out overnight, it's still 2009 and the global financial crisis is still on, capital outflow like this figure is a big number at that time.

Zeti doing it for her family,even her kids involve as a beneficiary in their SD in Singapore, family robber...🤪

This post has been edited by yongku99: Feb 23 2022, 04:27 PM

Leissner also testified that Low made a list of people in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi who needed to be bribed to ensure that the 1MDB plan was approved. Among the names in his testimony were Najib and United Arab Emirates Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour

This is how certain group of ppl success in business..

This post has been edited by yed: Feb 23 2022, 04:31 PM

Deserves a bump, and some family deserve time in prison.

Malaysia... truly a very interesting country.. cant wait for more stories. putting up all the puzzles together, this can be the best drama series ever to be produced!

technically???
why can't you do facts check before start typing????

TIA　ｆｏｌｌｏｗ　ｎａｊｉｂ
ｎｏｔ　ＭＢ／　ｓｕｌｔａｎ　ｏｆ　ｔｅｒｅｎｇｇａｎｕ　

https://themalaysianreserve.com/2019/09/18/...tates-approval/
letter by Menteri Besar Inc (MB Inc) of Terengganu to Najib as the then finance minister,
which stated that the decision to issue RM5 billion Islamic mediumterm notes was made without representation from the state.


https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/naji...rs-do-so-ex1mdb
Sultan Mizan, had summoned Ismee and Shahrol, who was also TIA CEO then, to Terengganu to have a meeting with the Sultan and Tengku Datuk Rahimah Sultan Mahmud.
During that meeting, Ismee testified that he was told to sign a director’s resolution for the suspension of the IMTN issuance.
During the meeting, Sultan Mizan told me: ‘My interest and concern is the wellbeing of my state and of my people.’ He then told me he wanted the IMTN to be suspended,” he said.

why jump around??
so difficult for you to answer??
you expecting
zeti to approve it in 7 days?
or
Zeti to release 100k per day?

looks like you have no idea how much money in /out of Malaysia per day.

and you need to recheck your facts,
US$15.4m 1MDB-linked funds transferred to Zeti's husband's company .
not zeti
if follow your logic, "no need to be technical like twisted lawyer"
since najib go to jail,
then rosmah and sons + daughter & grandsons should go to jail too,

regardless what u say - he will never see the inside of a jail.

1mdb is old news - not relevant- for current politics scenario.

don't be naive ts.

Jho Low only middle man or broker?
No actually involvement?

Pisang import mah, mesti sedap lagi

and today we know who got the robbery profit from this bond flipping, from Goldman,Zeti family,Jho Low to Petro Saudi, and they leave nothing to Najib in this robbery?.....

kalau tak songlap bukannya or....

perrrgghhh successful divert attention from najib’s looking for posh positions for his kids INTO insinuating zeti’s culpability.

everytime bila pru sahaja 1mdb news naik2. sudahlah.

ＤＯＪ　says the show just starting in Boston,

only fools will think 1mdb is old news,
many bonds not yet pay,

clearly you don't read news,
especially oversea news.

banyak membaca berita
Basmi kebodohan

how much JKOM pay you????

go and cry to Tim Leisner and Roger Ng.....

keep spinning

Good job
For religion and country..they said

CEO pussy that can bring you gold and money and business. He bought her 10m house but he probably got more from interests and kickbacks.

Got video leaks or not?

Of course, for research & investigation purpose only.

Any coverage by astro awani on this?

how much najib pay you??

I can afford 1 minute

How many more high profile idiotd gonna be exposed ?

This feels a bit like poetic justice.
While the Mad Mullahs pontificate from their high camels on the forbidden (in Islam) sins of the kafirs and monitor the superimposed faith of 3 hapless children,

3 orang perempuan Melayu have been revealed to be partying with a White Christian man?
One in particular was playing hard ball (pun intended).
This calls for a celebration of sorts with a round of Timah? Naturally!

He added that he later helped get Najib’s daughter a job at TPG, which is an American investment company

How my she earn from TPG

The difference is, Kerr didn’t know she was receiving stolen money

while Rohana knew the money was stolen and demanded a share.

I get the feeling Najib is just the tip of the UMNO power abuse iceberg

najib in billion abuse iceberg

others in million abuse iceberg

The billionaire Jamaludin 'menabung sejak kecil' Jarjis. His daughter who now fighting with his mom about the billion inheritance is ex-Goldman Sachs employee.

Jay Jay died in "helicopter accident" together with Najib's personal secretary. The two of them are some of the only direct witness of Bijan's 1mdb activities.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2021...-son039s-estate

The application is related to the suit filed by Aminah as the plaintiff against her two grandchildren over their failure to include the three companies’ shares, worth RM1.3 billion, in the list of her son’s estate.

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/banking-fi...EWFrmMID20YJYWY

The firm has found that Leissner recommended the hiring of Anis Jamaludin, the daughter of the late Jamaludin Jarjis, a senior politician and close aide to Malaysia's Najib, the WSJ reported. Anis Jamaludin worked as a bank analyst in Singapore for three months in 2010, the newspaper said.


Roumor is she like to go 'riding' Arabian horses. Very bigggg. Not like small oren langsat saiz only got.

Kesian rakyat marhaen. Bayar for all these orang alims.









This post has been edited by chrisweeks: Feb 23 2022, 09:10 PM

THE Sheikh Mansour which owns Man City???

Malaysians can’t have proper health care and proper education system and speedy free wifi Bcus of these billions rm corruptions .
Why continue to vote the same mastermind kleptocrats hiding in bnumno???

najib shaking liao hahaha more and more will be exposed.

jengx100

yes, same guy who conspiracy with najib to steal money

yacht — Topaz.
This is because close to €120 million (US$140 million) that originated in 1MDB is believed to have been used to pay for Topaz, which was built in 2012 for its beneficial owner, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Sheikh Mansour is well known as the owner of Manchester City football club. He was the chairman of International Petroleum Investment Co (IPIC), which is embroiled in a multibillion-dollar dispute with Malaysia over its transactions with 1MDB.

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/topa...nsour-link-1mdb

Bullshit la..landwhale like this also sapu..

Rozhan have raise the bar. Nak ada skandal sekarang sekurang-kurangnya kena belikan USD 10 mil house.

JAKIM Korang check in hotel je? lemah

now kleptocrats started DNB. habislah we going to pay through our hidung for 5G

umno will win election. everyone know. that is why all the company 'donating' to umno so that their business protected

So this is datin Rohana.

/k what do you think?

If got video leaks, kasi PM tepi for research purpose thanks.

The ordinary people of Malaysia become the real suckers.


This post has been edited by Henry T: Feb 23 2022, 09:35 PM

it has been some party, sex, corruption, bribery, stealing, plundering, cheating, deceiving and etc etc etc......paid by the Malaysian tax payors. How wonderful life has been.......

2016 lel