The rumours swirling around Malaysia that Rosmah pledged a house in name of her son-in-law to an influential official in order to gain a Royal Pardon for Najib have caught the eye of investigative journalists at the New York Post.After all, the property concerned, 2 Margo Way, a ‘swanky Alpine Mansion’ billed as one of New Jersey’s most expensive homes in history, was purchased for just $10 in March of 2025, according to property records, says the Post. The buyer was indeed one of the key figures in the rumours that have circulated in Malaysia, Daniyar Kessikbayev.‘The castle-like property had last been on the market for $34 million in 2011, before it sold a year later, in 2012, for $20 million in cash to an anonymous shell company that was linked to Kessikbayev’Daniyar Kessikbayev is married to Najib’s daughter Nooryana Najwa Najib and is the ex-step nephew of Kazakhstan’s former dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev.According to the claims and documents first uploaded by an anonymous online portal in Malaysia last month, Nooryana’s mother Rosmah was involved in the purchase and then transferred the ownership through an offshore manoeuvre in May to Daran Investments Capital Inc., a British Virgin Islands registered company. It was claimed businessman Daing A Malek Daing Rahaman was the shareholder of the company.All of the claims pertaining to Rosmah and Daing have been denied. The Post says insiders confirm the home remains under Kessikbayev’s ownership, as reflected in the property records.However, the New York Post’s report connects the property to a much wider scandal that hit the New York property market a decade earlier involving Rosmah’s son-in-law. Back in 2012 the 17,150 square feet, the 9 bedroom mansion (complete with its own basketball court, two pools, home theatre and bowling alley) had sold for $20 million dollars in cash to buyers whose identities were not known to the seller. It was a rushed purchase, according to the seller, the developer Joe Scott. “An older Russian man and an Oriental woman made the deal. I heard a million stories [about the owners] but I don’t care. As long as they paid me, that’s all I care about,” he told the Post.The purchasing pair would appear to have ostensibly been, Daniyar’s mother Maira Nazarbayev, and his stepfather, Bolat Nazarbayev, brother to the notoriously kleptocratic former president of Khazakstan. However, the details were shrouded in mystery and the purchase vehicle an anonymous off-shore company.Daniyar and his mother have a history of questionable property transactions, reminds the Post, which covered the ugly court cases after Bolat and Maira separated in which Bolat claimed he had been cheated by his wife and step-son.Indeed, if $10 seems cheap for a New Jersey prestige mega-mansion, Daniyar previously snagged a $20 million Plaza Hotel condo for just $1.The allegation was that the young man had been entrusted with power of attorney by Bolat, and had proceeded first to put his mother’s name on the deeds and then bought the flat from her for that one dollar.By 2012, the couple had separated on toxic terms. Bolat first had Maira arrested under an Interpol Red Notice then filed a lawsuit against both Maira and Kessikbayev, alleging they “swindled” him out of more than $100 million, records the Post. It was shortly after that the $20 million sale of the Margo Way was made to an anonymous shell company.When the matter came to trial Bolat’s lawyers claimed that Maira and Kessikbayev had also bought 2 Margo Way with his money. The case was eventually settled out of court in 2014. The terms included giving Bolat the Plaza Hotel condo and other residences while he agreed to drop his claim to a stash of jewels and 2 Margo Way.Rosmah would have been impressed and indeed Nooryna and Daniyar married the following year. It seems the couple have now benefitted from a similar looking deal whereby that New Jersey property has now been transferred to her husband. Whether it was passed on, as suggested, to help her father out, is not recorded legally in any of the US records according to the Post investigation.Read the Full Story at The New York Post