However, he said none of the 195 Interpol member countries had been able to confirm the whereabouts of Low, Terence Geh, Casey Tang, Jasmine Loo, Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil and Eric Tan.

“Till this day, the Malaysian police are still working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Singaporean authorities and enforcement agencies of other countries that are also holding investigations on 1MDB funds,” he said in a written parliamentary reply today.

Saifuddin said charges had been filed in court in absentia against Low, Geh, Tang, Loo and Tan at the Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur magistrates’ courts.

Meanwhile, he said, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) was still investigating Nik Faisal over SRC International Sdn Bhd.

The Interpol Red Notice for Low was first approved and issued in 2018.

Low, who has been charged in Malaysia and the US over allegations that he orchestrated the theft of US$4.5 billion from 1MDB, is believed to be in Macau, although Beijing has denied protecting the fugitive financier.

Bradley Hope, the co-author of a book on the 1MDB scandal, had launched a new search for Low following former prime minister Najib Razak’s incarceration after losing his SRC International appeal in the Federal Court last August.