Then, 1MDB requested Deutsche Bank send the first tranche of the $725 million loan directly to Aabar. It was an odd arrangement. Normally a bank, for compliance reasons, would send such large amounts of cash directly to the borrower. But Deutsche was satisfied by the apparent involvement of the Abu Dhabi fund. The perpetrators had tricked the bank: The recipient was another look-alike Aabar, set up by Al Husseiny with an account at UBS Bank in Singapore. Two days later, more than $100 million was diverted to a shell company controlled by Fat Eric.
