The US Justice Department is seeking the forfeiture and recovery of approximately US$540 million in assets associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad. This case and related actions already underway now represents the largest action brought under the US Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative. Assets now subject to forfeiture in this case total almost US$1.7 billion in respect of more than $4.5 billion in 1MDB funds, allegedly misappropriated by high-level officials of 1MDB and their associates. A private banker and Argentinian national, Jorge Luis Arzuaga, formerly employed by several Swiss banks has pleaded guilty in New York to participating in a money laundering conspiracy over several years, assisting with distribution and receipt of millions of dollars of bribes paid to high-ranking soccer officials, including the late president of the Argentinian soccer federation. In total, according to the US Justice Department, Arzuaga assisted in channelling more than US$25 million in bribes via an account he set up in the name of a shell company. Arzuanga was allegedly paid more than $1 million in bonuses for his efforts.