The FBI reportedly believes that $100m of the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring film’s budget came from a Malaysian state fund for local economic developmentSources within the FBI own confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that more than $100m of the production budget for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street came from a Malaysian state fund connected to a scandal that has damaged a senior Goldman Sachs banker and led investigators to examine the lifestyle of a notorious New York playboy. According to the Journal,FBI investigators believe much of the cash used to make the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring film was never intended for the film trade. Instead, it originated with 1MDB, or a Malaysian state fund meant to boost local economic development. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com