Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has revealed that the government “roughly knows” the whereabouts of the elusive businessman Jho Low.

However, he said an official request to extradite him to Malaysia has not been made.

“I don't go around to catch people,” he quipped. 

Mahathir had vowed to make former premier Najib Abdul Razak and his family, and their associate Low, return the funds allegedly misappropriated from 1MDB.

He suggested that recovering 1MDB funds would be a low-hanging fruit, particularly funds that had been seized by foreign governments.

Najib, Rosmah, Riza, and Low had all been implicated in the 1MDB scandal. However, they have each denied wrongdoing, and attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali had also cleared Najib of any misconduct.

In addition, 1MDB had denied that its money was misappropriated and insisted that all the money was accounted for.

Mahathir said Harapan aims to recover at least three-quarters of the RM42 billion that 1MDB had borrowed to improve the country’s finances.