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Creating "The Wolf of Wall Street" might've had an equal amount of corruption as the scandals in the movie. A Malaysian development fund could've helped funnel $100 million in the project. Transcript: Popular film "The Wolf of Wall Street" was filled with corruption, but the funds to make the movie could have been just as equally backed by scandal, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reports investigators think missing money from a Malaysian development fund could've been funneled into a production company that supplied over $100 million to the project. The production company — Red Granite Pictures — is operated by the stepson of Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak. Razak opened the 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund a few years ago to help boost the country's economy. It's coordinated business deals and received funding from several foreign countries. But it gets shaky from there. Other countries scrutinized the fund after it was reportedly late to repay billions of dollars to investors, even though the fund claimed it had enough money to make the payments. And despite Swiss officials opening an investigation in January and The Wall Street Journal reporting the FBI did the same in the fall, Malaysia's attorney general cleared Razak of wrongdoing. As for the profits from the successful film, The Wall Street Journal said there aren't signs of the $400 million grossed going back into the fund or Malaysia's pockets. Sources: Paramount Pictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszwuX1AK6A The Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysias-1mdb-the-secret-money-behind-the-wolf-of-wall-street-1459531987?mod=e2tw Getty Images http://www.gettyimages.com/license/463117053 Getty Images http://www.gettyimages.com/license/501239488 1Malaysia Development Berhad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGHYzP6QA30 1Malaysia Development Berhad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELwDZRW1RPs Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland https://www.news.admin.ch/message/index.html?lang=en&msg-id=60510 Getty Images http://www.gettyimages.com/license/458911350 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ICry_QtCk The Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-probes-malaysia-development-fund-1442694963 Paramount Pictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszwuX1AK6A ------------------------------------- Newsy is your source for concise, unbiased video news and analysis covering the top stories from around the world. With persistent curiosity and no agenda, we strive to fuel meaningful conversations by highlighting multiple sides of every story. Newsy delivers the news and perspective you need without the hype and bias common to many news sources. See more at http://www.newsy.com/ Like Newsy on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/newsyvideos/