Malaysian state open to buying Petronas stake after Mahathir comment


Didn’t 1MDB start out in Terengganu? Just saying.

Dateline 2019-12-11, Reuters:

Malaysia’s Terengganu state said on Wednesday it was open to buying a stake in national energy giant Petronas, after Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he was considering such a sale to raise funds for his heavily-indebted federal government.

Petronas, the world’s third-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, is one of the biggest sources of revenue for the federal government that has a debt pile of more than 1 trillion ringgit ($239 billion).

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