PETALING JAYA, June 26 — Xavier Andre Justo is back in Malaysia to help with the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) investigation, a report said tonight.

This will be the former PetroSaudi International executive’s third visit to the country.

The Star Online reported that the Swiss national met with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today.

It is understood that the interview was over five hours long.

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Justo was pardoned in Thailand for attempted blackmail linked to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) case.

Justo was arrested, tried and convicted in Thailand for attempting to blackmail Petrosaudi over a stolen cache of documents in 2015.

He had also been a key player in the early days of the 1MDB scandal, when he sought to sell the same cache to a local news organisation whose subsequent reports based on the documents caused it to be suspended by the Home Ministry.

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Petrosaudi and 1MDB entered an abortive joint venture in 2012 for which the Malaysian firm still paid the former US$700 million (RM2.7 billion).

Justo’s documents, which he tried to sell for US$2 million to the Malaysian outfit, were believed to be linked to that deal.