Ex-Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng to get his day in court after three years

NEW YORK: Day after day, the scene has replayed: Roger Ng (pic), a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker, left his Manhattan apartment and, with an electronic monitor strapped to his ankle, headed downtown to build the case that might save him from prison.

It’s been nearly three years since Ng landed in the US from South-East Asia to face federal charges over his role in a scheme to loot billions from the Malaysian fund known as 1MDB. In that time Malaysia’s former prime minister has been convicted of crimes while Goldman has paid $5bil in fines and apologised for breaking the law, one of the biggest black marks in its 153-year history.