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1MDB: Cleaning up
1MDB：清算
A mammoth financial scandal is being brushed under the carpet.
一樁巨大的金融丑聞正悄然發生。
For the past year 1MDB—a Malaysian state investment firm at the heart of one of the world's biggest financial scandals—has been locked in dispute with IPIC, a sovereign-wealth fund from the oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi, with which it was once chummy.
一年來，1MDB（馬來西亞國有投資公司，它正身陷世界上最大的金融丑聞之一）和IPIC（阿布扎比-產油酋長國之一的一家主權財富基金）正陷入糾紛，此前它與IPIC關系親密。
Terse statements released on April 24th suggest the pair are finally making up.
4月24日發布的簡短聲明，暗示雙方終于和解。
1MDB has agreed to pay IPIC $1.2bn, reportedly to settle a complaint that it reneged on the terms of a bail-out IPIC provided in 2015.
1MDB同意支付IPIC12億美元，據悉該公司已就其違反2015年向IPIC繳納一項保釋金的條款達成了和解。
The two companies have also agreed to enter into “good-faith discussions” about other disputed payments, which may total as much as $3.5bn.
關于其他有爭議的款項，兩家公司同意進行“誠意磋商”，總金額高達35億美元。
Past dealings between 1MDB and IPIC are a focus for investigators hunting huge sums that have gone missing from the Malaysian state-owned company since its founding in 2009.
1MDB和IPIC的往來交易成為焦點，因為調查員正在搜尋一筆巨額款項，這筆錢是2009年創立的馬來西亞國有公司的錢。
In 2012 IPIC offered to guarantee loans that 1MDB needed to acquire two power firms.
2012年 IPIC因為1MDB需要收購兩家電力公司，為其提供了擔保貸款。
But IPIC said last year that it had never received collateral and other monies supposedly due to it under this deal.
但IPIC去年表示，在這個交易中，它從未收到過任何抵押和其他款項。
Instead 1MDB appears to have wired payments to an account held by an unrelated shell company registered in the British Virgin Islands, which had adopted a name similar to that of one of IPIC's subsidiaries.
然而1MDB表示已經支付，它支付的賬戶是一個注冊地在英屬維京群島的空殼公司，該公司名稱和IPIC的子公司名稱相似。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
