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On June 10, 2021, a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment charging Low Take Jho, 39, also known as Jho Low, and Prakazel “Pras,” 48, with elaborating an unregistered shadow campaign starting in or about 2017 to influence the then President Trump and the Department of Justice both to end the investigation of Jho Low and others in connection with the international strategic and development company known as 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and to return a Chinese dissent to China. Meanwhile, Malaysia has brought sued three banks to recover assets worth more than $23 billion the government says are connected to the fund.