New York –
Former banker Goldman Sachs Group IncRoger Ng, who is also a convicted conspirator in a corruption scandal 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) cited prison conditions in Malaysia like hell Ng spent six months in Sungai Buloh prison before being extradited to United States of America (AS).
As reported Bloomberg and launched The StarTuesday (28/2/2023), Ng described the conditions of his detention in Malaysia in a letter to US district judge Margo Brodie seeking leniency ahead of next week’s sentencing hearing for his role in the looting of Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund.
In a letter released last Saturday (25/2), Ng said the time he spent in Sungai Buloh prison in Malaysia before he was extradited to the US in May 2019, was like ‘complete hell’ and had been enough punishment for his crimes.
Ng in his letter asked Judge Brodie not to hand down an additional prison sentence in the US when the sentencing hearing is held March 9 in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.
Ng, 51, and previously managing director, is the only Goldman Sachs banker to stand trial over the 1MDB corruption scandal.
During his time in Sungai Buloh prison, Ng said he lived with rats and other pests, slept on cement floors and contracted malaria and leptospirosis — a bacterial infection spread through contact with rat urine.
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