Ex-Goldman Banker Ng Should Get 15 Years for 1MDB, US Says (2)

Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Roger Ng, the only employee of the bank to be tried and convicted over the global 1MDB scandal, should be sentenced to a term of at least 15 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

Roger Ng

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In a sentencing recommendation filed Friday, prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, said Ng’s crimes merited a substantial term of imprisonment. He was convicted in April of conspiring to bribe foreign officials and launder money in the looting of the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.

Ng, 51, last week filed his own sentencing memo asking the judge to spare him ...