The global financial scandal that has spread from Malaysia to Hollywood
SINGAPORE - Accepting his 2014 Golden Globe Award for acting in "The Wolf of Wall Street," Leonardo DiCaprio thanked "Joey, Riz and Jho," three little-known producers and financiers, "for taking a risk on this movie."
The film is based on the memoir of a stockbroker who defrauded investors out of millions of dollars in the 1980s.
The three men - Joey McFarland, Riza Aziz and Jho Low - have since been accused in connection with an even bigger fraud: the theft of more than $4.5 billion from a Malaysian government investment fund known as 1MDB.
The newest charges in the case came against Riza, who was arrested in Malaysia last week and pleaded not
