Defendant Roger Ng must be held accountable for ‘brazen’ bribery and money-laundering scheme, court told
Ex-Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng and his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, leave the federal court in New York, the US, on May 6 2019. Picture: REUTERS/JEENAH MOON
Ng’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo countered that his client, who had been Goldman’s former top investment banker for Malaysia, was falsely implicated by his former boss Tim Leissner, the star witness. “He never stopped lying ever, and he didn’t stop lying in this courtroom,” Agnifilo said, referring to Leissner.
Goldman in 2020 paid a fine of nearly $3bn and its Malaysian unit agreed to plead guilty. The scheme’s suspected mastermind, Malaysian financier Jho Low, remains at large. “The harm to the people of Malaysia is immeasurable,” Smith told jurors. “It is deeply unfair to everyone else who plays by the rules.”Agnifilo focused his closing argument on Leissner’s credibility, after Leissner admitted during testimony that he “lied a lot”.
“What he told you about the crimes he committed with the defendant and others is backed up by and consistent with other evidence,” Smith said. “You already know the defendant is guilty from the other evidence.”
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