Attorney General Loretta Lynch plans to announce the forfeiture actions Wednesday at a news conference in Washington.

Among the assets the government is seeking are royalties from “The Wolf of Wall Street,” homes in Beverly Hills, California, a penthouse in the Time Warner building in Manhattan, and a Vincent van Gogh drawing, according to the filing. They total more than $1 billion, the Justice Department said in a statement.

Red Granite in May said it’s confident all money it received had been proper, and from a variety of sources including top-tier U.S. commercial and investment banks.

The 1MDB affair has stretched from Malaysia to Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Switzerland, the Caribbean, Hong Kong and the U.S. and touched the upper reaches of global finance.

Swiss authorities have estimated that about $4 billion may have been misappropriated from state companies in the Southeast Asian nation. A Malaysian parliamentary committee identified at least $4.2 billion of irregular transactions by the fund.

Three Phases

The suspected fraud occurred in three phases in which money was laundered through bank accounts in Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the U.S., the government said in the court filing.

In 2009, after 1MDB was set up to pursue development projects, officials of 1MDB and others, under the pretense of investing in a joint venture between 1MDB and a Saudi oil company, transferred more than $1 billion to a Swiss bank account.

In 2012, 1MDB officials and others diverted proceeds raised through two separate bond offerings arranged by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., according to the Justice Department. More than 40 percent of the proceeds, or $1.4 billion, were transferred to a Swiss bank account belonging to a British Virgin Islands entity. More than $1 billion was diverted from another bond offering arranged by Goldman Sachs in 2013.

The case is U.S. v. “Wolf of Wall Street,” 16-05362, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

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