Lover who ‘blackmailed’ ex-Goldman banker for $10M house has assets frozen

The girl who alleged blackmailed disgraced ex-Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner is beneath investigation for cash laundering in Malaysia.
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The girl who's alleged to have blackmailed disgraced ex-Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner into shopping for her a $10 million London mansion has had her belongings frozen by the Malaysian authorities.

Rohana Rozhan, a media government and the previous CEO of Astro Malaysia Holdings, is claimed to have carried on an extramarital affair with Leissner, the estranged husband of trend mannequin and actuality tv star Kimora Lee Simmons.

Leissner testified in Brooklyn federal courtroom final week that when he tried to interrupt issues off with Rozhan, she threatened to reveal his position within the $4.5 billion 1MDB embezzlement scheme if he didn't purchase her a mansion.

“Ms. Rozhan was very upset that I used to be ending our relationship to be with my future spouse, with Kimora,” Leissner stated on the stand.

“If I didn’t purchase her a home, she would inform the authorities about my involvement within the 1MDB scandal. She was threatening to show me. On the time, 2013, I used to be very afraid of that,” Leissner added, based on Bloomberg.

Rohana Rozhan, a former media government, is alleged to have carried on an extramarital affair with Leissner.

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Leissner testified that he knowledgeable Richard Gnodde, the then-chief of Goldman Sachs’ Asia enterprise, of his relationship with Rozhan.

He admitted to persevering with the connection regardless of Gnodde’s warnings to “watch out” as a result of Rozhan’s firm was a shopper.

Leissner’s testimony prompted Malaysian regulators on Tuesday to announce an investigation of Rozhan for suspected cash laundering, Bloomberg is reporting.

Rozhan is alleged to have threatened to disclose Leissner’s position within the $4.5 billion 1MDB embezzlement scheme if he didn't purchase her a $10 million London mansion.

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“Now we have known as Rohana to report her assertion and have taken steps to freeze associated belongings or money,” stated Azam Baki, the top of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Fee.

“We'll proceed our efforts to analyze and return the associated monies to our nation.”

Leissner is the estranged husband of designer and former actuality tv star Kimora Lee Simmons.

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Leissner, who has pleaded responsible to cash laundering and bribery prices, is the US authorities’s star witness in its case towards alleged fraudster Roger Ng.

Ng, who has pleaded not responsible, is alleged to have conspired together with his then-boss, Leissner, and fugitive Malaysian businessman Jho Low in a scheme to defraud the 1MDB sovereign growth fund.

Leissner can be the federal authorities’s star witness in its prosecution of Roger Ng, a former colleague of Leissner’s at Goldman who's on trial for his position within the 1MDB scandal.

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Leissner has struck a take care of the federal government whereby he has pleaded responsible in alternate for his cooperation within the federal prosecution of the 49-year-old Ng.

He testified final week that he carried on a number of extramarital affairs and that he falsified divorce papers and exchanged vows with two girls regardless that he was legally wed to his earlier partner.