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Model Miranda Kerr hands over US$8.1m in jewellery linked to 1MDB to US authorities

Published Tue, Jun 27, 2017 · 03:29 AM
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[NEW YORK] Australian model Miranda Kerr has handed over US$8.1 million worth of jewellery to the USJustice Department (DOJ) a week after lawsuits said it was purchased for her with funds allegedly misappropriated from Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.

Kerr, who isn't a defendant in the lawsuits, transferred the gifts last Friday to government agents from her safe-deposit box in Los Angeles, her spokesman said according to Wall Street Journal.

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