Malaysian fugitive Jho Low, mastermind of the $7.65 billion 1MDB heist, is hiding in Shanghai's Green Hills luxury district using a fake Australian passport. The playboy-turned-pariah who once partied with DiCaprio stole $2.5 billion personally, causing Malaysia $18 billion in total losses.
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Below you'll find our newest "Rich List" entrant: the infamous Jho Low himself. It's time! But before then, I wanted to let you know about our live broadcast today, where we exclusively revealed new details about Jho Low hiding in Shanghai's exclusive Green Hills development and operating using a fake Australian passport with a Greek name. It was an extraordinary four-hour broadcast with a lot of fun (and internet outages...) reminiscing, a review of our favorite Jho Low videos and recordings, and finally a serious discussion about the future of kleptocracy with the top two FBI agents who worked the 1MDB case and our big reveals.
What's crazy? We found Jho Low using a meme coin. We're proud at Brazen to be brave enough to "create dangerously," as Albert Camus famously exhorted young artists and writers.
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This is the finale of the broadcast, where we tell reveal the new, shocking discoveries about Jho Low.
