The revelations were also a dilemma for Bank Negara Malaysia. The central bank oversaw the country’s financial system, and it had failed to uncover one of the world’s biggest financial swindles. Cheah had informed Zeti Akhtar Aziz, the sixty-seven-year-old governor of Bank Negara, about the prime minister’s account in 2011. He told her Najib was expecting inflows of hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations from Saudi Arabia—a story concocted by Low to explain the torrent of cash.
