A fresh special investigative report by Al Jazeera - Jho Low: Hunt For A Fugitive - has shed light on the fugitive financier's desperate attempts to strike a deal with the Malaysian government and avoid going to jail over the multi-billion dollar 1MDB financial scandal.

The documentary, helmed by reporter Mary Ann Jolley, featured new phone recordings of Low Taek Jho in conversations with Malaysian authorities from May to November 2018 as he tried to strike a deal with Dr Mahathir Mohamad's newly elected Pakatan Harapan administration...