Ex-Goldman banker outlines scheme to bribe Malaysian, Abu Dhabi officials

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Ex-Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng arrives for his criminal trial at U.S. federal court in Brooklyn on Feb. 16. © Reuters

JACK STONE TRUITT, Nikkei staff writer

NEW YORK -- In a posh London neighborhood over lunch in February 2012, Jho Low drew two columns on a piece of paper: one for Malaysia, and one for Abu Dhabi. In each were the names of officials who would need to be bribed or, as Low put it to his lunch companions, "taken care of."

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