come here to the agency today to express their support for mr najib. financial scandal. never before has it arrested a former prime minister. bbcbusiness tweet. "mining giant glencore faces money laundering probe". it's an investigation by the us authorities. there's been a big reaction in its share price here in london. at one point it was down about 12% but later recovered some of those losses. glencore says it's reviewing the subpoena and will provide further information in due course as appropriate. paul blake is in new york when that what is being asked? let me explain. having documented a particular case, the company received a subpoena from the us department ofjustice, received a subpoena from the us department of justice, wouldn't received a subpoena from the us department ofjustice, wouldn't not know a tonne of details, we know it is connected to the foreign corrupt practises act, which bars companies from essentially bribing officials in countries where they want to do business. we also know is connected to various blunder in laundering laws,

mr najib here in kuala lumpur on tuesday and spent the night in detention.o on twitter before his arrest. this is being watched hundreds of thousands of times. not all the accusations are true, he says. he says not to believe the reports and asks the public for a chance to defend himself. nearly half a million people have watched this video. it's a stunning fall from grace. just two months ago, he lost elections to mahathir bin mohamad. he came to power on a promise to reopen an investigation into a massive corruption scandal of state—fund known as imdb. it was set up in 2009 to turn kuala lumpur into a financial hub. it's now at the centre of money laundering allegations. a number of countries, including the us, are investigating. funds skimmed were allegedly used to buy luxury assets and propety. this was some of what police seized from properties linked to mr najib. jewellery worth millions. he still has support, though. this was taken outside of court today. that hashtag, #freenajib. more now from karishma vaswani. this really underlines the current admi

mr najib was arrested on tuesday over allegations he pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars from theinvestigation since his shock election loss in may. earlier, he tweeted a video in which he urged malaysians not to believe all the allegations against him. let's take a look. in the video, set over sad music and images of him praying, meeting his mother, and the raid at his home, the former prime minister admits that there had been weaknesses and apologises. he says: "yes, i am not perfect, like any normal person. but believe that of what i and my family are accused of, not all is true." earlier i asked malaysian political analyst kean wong how this situation had arisen. well, of course it stems entirely at this stage from the huge scandal that we now refer to as the 1mdb wealth fund scandal, and according to the statement that was issued by the 1mdb task force, which consists of — including the current and previous anticorruption commission chiefs, it has to do with a subsidiary of 1mdb called src. this has to do with, allegedly, billions of dollars of misplaced money, or a heist, th

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