The 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street — a movie about financial fraud — was financed in part with money U.S. prosecutors say was stolen from Malaysia's 1MDB national fund

The 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street — a movie about financial fraud — was financed in part with money U.S. prosecutors say was stolen from Malaysia's 1MDB national fund

Red Granite Pictures, a small Los Angeles production company co-founded by Riza Aziz, the stepson of then-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, wrote the checks that put Leonardo DiCaprio on a yacht in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. The film, released in December 2013, cost roughly $100 million to make and grossed almost $400 million worldwide. U.S. Department of Justice civil forfeiture filings later alleged that a large share of th…