Turnbull's son says he is a victim of 1MDB

Alex Turnbull (above picture), who says he is a victim of the 1MDB scandal, has threatened to sue a blogger.

The son of the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Turnbull has urged blogger to pull down articles from his blog.

The blogger has allegeded that he benefited in the 1MDB scandal.

Turnbull rejected the claims in emails sent to Sahathevan.

Turnbull said he called upon the insane pricing and bizarre structure (of the 1MDB deal) at Goldman Sachs, instead.

“I called out the insane pricing and bizarre structure at GS when the deal was done.

He also said he was ‘yelled at’ by compliance for casting doubt on the integrity of PFI.

“As a result I was “b tracked” and resigned.

“This will all come out in a book in September by Tom Wright at the Wall Street Journal,” he wrote.

When Sahathevan refused to pull down the articles, Turnbull suggested the blogger should talk to Wright.

“We could move to a formal discussion about defamation law in Australia. Let me know.

“I am not going to do this in public to drive traffic to your site and cause a media circus.”

He then said ultimately “I’m not the one making unfounded ridiculous accusations.”

“If you don’t want to do even the vaguest bit of research and then publish that’s your problem legally speaking.”

Alex Turnbull has been an executive director of Goldman Sachs Group’s special situations group.

His father Malcolm was co-chairman of Goldman Sachs’s Australian unit between 1997 and 2001.

In his blog yesterday, Sahathevan wrote that he will not take down the articles.

He even suggested to Mr Turnbull to proceed with the lawsuit.

Sahathevan also published a Bloomberg article that refers to Mr Turnbull’s previous link with Goldman Sachs.

And he says the threat of a lawsuit in Australia, while Mr Turnbull is in Singapore, should not be ignored.

He was refering to the fact that the Turnbulls are the most powerful family in Australia.