Singapore’s police have confirmed that arrest warrants for Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, remain active and enforceable. The confirmation comes as the fugitive Malaysian financier pursues what might be his most audacious gambit yet: seeking clemency from US President Donald Trump.
Low, the alleged architect of one of history’s largest financial frauds, filed a pardon request in the US in May 2026. That request is currently pending. But even if Trump were to grant it, a US pardon would do absolutely nothing about the charges and warrants waiting for Low in Singapore and Malaysia.
A fraud so big it toppled a government
Between 2009 and 2014, approximately $4.5 billion was allegedly siphoned from 1Malaysia Development Berhad, a state-backed investment fund that was supposed to drive economic development in Malaysia.
Low is accused of orchestrating the diversion of those funds through a web of shell companies, offshore accounts, and intermediaries designed to obscure the money trail. The proceeds allegedly bankrolled everything from luxury real estate to fine art to the production of the film “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
