Fund Lawyer Who Worked With Goldman Holds 1MDB Clues, U.S. Says

By Greg Farrell, Elffie Chew and Dakin Campbell, Bloomberg News

She was the general counsel for Malaysia’s 1MDB investment fund. She was also 1MDB’s liaison to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the global bank that helped it raise $6 billion.

After one of the big sales led by Goldman Sachs, $5 million of the cash raised for 1MDB traveled through shell companies and ended up in her Swiss bank account, the U.S. said in complaints filed last week.

The U.S. government refers to the official only as “1MDB Officer 3.” According to people familiar with the matter, she is ...