No-To-Scale has imagined installing a superyacht connected to the 1MDB embezzling scandal as a provocative alternative Malaysian pavilion for the Dubai Expo 2020.
The Malaysian design office has proposed dry docking Equanimity, the 91-metre superyacht once owned by Malaysian fugitive Jho Low, at the Dubai Expo 2020.
Low has been charged with money laundering billions of dollars stolen by the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak.
The $130 million Equanimity was allegedly bought with stolen development money
Razak is accused of siphoning money from his government to his personal bank accounts by transferring it through 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad), a government-run development company.
While advising Razak, Low is accused by the US of transferring $4.5 billion (£3.6 billion) from the fund to his personal account. The pavilion proposal is intended "to materialise the complex issue" of the ongoing political scandal by visualising the spoils of the stolen cash.
"This proposal is to give insight to visitors on the absurdity of such an amount of money," said No-To-Scale.
No-to-scale proposed filling the superyacht with the gifts Jho Low gave celebrities
The $130 million (£104 million) Equanimity was one of the assets allegedly bought by Low with the misappropriated funds, along with a private jet, jewellery and paintings.
No-To-Scale has visualised taking Equanamity, which is luxuriously decked out with a helipad, beauty salon, pool and onboard ...