KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 — Businessman Low Taek Jho or Jho Low must be held accountable if he purchased the RM1 billion Equanimity superyacht with embezzled money, said former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

The vessel was handed over to Malaysia by Indonesian authorities who seized the Equanimity pursuant to a court order issued in the US as part of the country’s kleptocracy action over assets allegedly obtained using stolen 1MDB funds.

“I have said if it is done illegally, if the yacht is obtained in a manner that is illegal, in a sense that money that is not due to him has been used, as been alleged, then he has to be accountable for it, that has always been my position,” Najib told reporters at the Parliament lobby today.

The super yacht is now berthed at the Boustead Cruise Centre in Port Klang.

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