The embezzled money was used for a variety of opulent expenditures that definitely didn’t benefit the people of Malaysia.
This gets rather complicated, so let’s first look at why Red Granite Productions was in trouble in the first place.
1MDB was started by the government to benefit the people of Malaysia, but in a case of corruption, billions were embezzled.
The fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad, hereby referred to as 1MDB, allegedly siphoned off funds into various places, including Red Granite Productions, which was co-founded by Riza Aziz, the stepson of the Malaysian Prime Minister.