Interest in the superyacht Equanimity, once owned by fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, has come from around the world, with bidders placing a US$1 million deposit to qualify for the auction, The Straits Times reports. A former US Justice Department employee pleaded guilty Friday to helping funnel tens of millions of dollars into the US for the alleged mastermind of the multibillion-dollar fraud involving Malaysia’s sovereign-wealth fund, The Wall Street Journal reports. The US Federal Reserve is ramping up its investigation into how executives dodged the bank’s internal controls while helping Malaysian authorities raise billions of dollars that later went missing, Bloomberg reported, quoting people briefed on the matter.