In The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DeCaprio's character kicks a couple of FBI agents off his ostentatious yacht when they refuse a bribe. When US government agents seized a yacht owned by one of the film's financiers, the Equanimity, he convinced a judge to force them to hand the $350 million boat back.

The victory two-and-a-half-weeks ago by the Malaysian private equity investor Low Taek Jho – otherwise known as Jho Low – was a movie-worthy twist in a tale containing the ingredients of Hollywood blockbuster: high-living bankers, a Victoria's Secret supermodel, a possibly corrupt prime minister and a missing $6 billion. James Packer even gets a cameo.