Fugees rapper found guilty in US over 1MDB case

Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel has been convicted in the United States of conspiring with the financier at the centre of Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal to illegally lobby the US government.

Michel was accused of funnelling money from the fugitive Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho to the 2012 reelection campaign of former US President Barack Obama and lobbying the Justice Department during former President Donald Trump’s tenure to drop investigations into Low’s alleged corruption.

Michel, who achieved fame in the 1990s with hits including “Ready or Not” and “Killing Me Softly”, was also alleged to have lobbied Washington on behalf of China to send dissident Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui back to China.

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