The judge ruled they were bought in a looting operation of a Malaysian fund value billions of dollars. The ring is value about $1.17 million, while the earrings are value about $628,000, the United States said.
U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer of Los Angeles described the diamonds as a present from Low to his mother, Evelyn, and ruled the jewels were “proceeds of crime” from the 1MDB fraud.
Low stays a fugitive from prosecution by each U.S. and Malaysian authorities. In June, he reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to return greater than $100 million in assets the federal government allegedly acquired using 1Malaysia Development Bhd. funds.
Meanwhile, in a related case, Jasmine Loo, a former 1MDB lawyer, was ordered on Monday to confiscate a pencil sketch by Pablo Picasso titled Three naked women and a bust of a personwhich she purchased for roughly $1.4 million.
Loo, who has been charged by Malaysian authorities and testified against Razak this 12 months, also agreed to return $25,000 deposited in a Swiss checking account, based on an order signed by Fischer on Monday.
