
Jho Low was a well-connected money man for the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund, created to foster green energy investment and better jobs for the people of Malaysia. But instead of doing any of that, Jho Low used the ill-gotten billions to finance a multi-year long orgy of parties and pleasure cruises. He eventually found his way to Hollywood, where he wooed Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese by financing Leo's dream project The Wolf of Wall Street. Oh the irony, that a film about financial crimes was paid for with... financial crimes!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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