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A court in Gibraltar rejected a petition by the U.S. Justice Department to continue holding an Iranian oil tanker seized in July on suspicion of violating sanctions, the BBC reported. More Andrea Vella, a senior banker with Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, has been placed on leave after U.S. prosecutors tied him to the 1MDB scandal in court documents, potentially weakening the lender's claims that it became embroiled in the affair solely as a result of the corrupt conduct of former employees Tim Leissner and Roger Ng, Bloomberg reported. More Former Malaysian head of state Najib Razak is due in...