While Malaysia carries out its first prison sentence linked to the 1MDB scandal, author and journalist Tom Wright said there is still more to be done to hold the culprits of the embezzlement to account.

Quoting from his own 2018 book ‘Billion Dollar Whale’, he said the crime could not have taken place without the connivance of executives in places like London, Geneva, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, and elsewhere.

“With this verdict, Malaysia becomes only the second...