Shafee, former prime minister Najib Razak’s lawyer, said he reached this conclusion based on testimony from former 1MDB in-house lawyer Jasmine Loo in court.

“There’s nothing stopping him (Low). Initially he was said to be in China, Dubai, and then Macau,” he said at a town hall session with reporters this evening.

“But from testimony after I grilled Loo, I think he is in Myanmar … Loo was travelling with a Myanmar passport, and she confirmed that it was Jho Low who arranged for it.”

Loo, 50, was the 50th prosecution witness in Najib’s 1MDB trial at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.

In April, she testified that she had negotiated her surrender with the authorities and began sending representations to the Malaysian government while she was in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2021. She returned to Malaysia last year.

She claimed that Low had arranged for her safe travel to Myanmar, and that the border guards there did not stamp her Malaysian passport upon arrival.

Loo was then taken to Yangon and given a fraudulent passport to live there freely under the disguise of a Myanmar citizen.

She testified that she foresaw issues with local authorities due to her unstamped Malaysian passport and fraudulent passport if she were to leave the country.

In May, the Kuala Lumpur High Court heard that Low was the “puppet master” in determining how 1MDB made its investments, despite holding no position in the GLC.

This was according to testimony from MACC investigating officer Nur Aida Arifin during cross-examination by Shafee in Najib’s corruption trial.

Malaysian and US investigators estimate a total of US$4.5 billion was siphoned from 1MDB, which was established in 2009.