The wife of former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng yesterday testified in her husband's defence at a US trial over the looting of hundreds of millions of dollars from the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund between 2009 and 2014.

Ng, Goldman's former chief for Malaysia, is charged with conspiring to launder money and violate an anti-corruption law. Prosecutors say he helped his former boss Tim Leissner embezzle money from 1MDB, launder the proceeds and bribe officials to win business for Goldman...