A foreign businessperson convicted in a Kuwaiti court for money laundering has urged Malaysia to probe the alleged culpability of Gulf state officials in the 1MDB scandal. 

Syrian-French businessperson Bachar Kiwan told Malaysiakini this after the conviction of Sheikh Sabah Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, son of a former Kuwaiti prime minister, over charges linked to the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.

The Kuwaiti court also found three others guilty including fugitive tycoon Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, who was convicted in absentia.

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