Meanwhile a leading Singapore based investigator, who asked not to be named, said an interim report into the scandal would be available “by the middle of next week,” although he pointed out “these things are never predictable. It’s a pretty complicated mess. And the scope changes the more work you do.”

“Everybody is keen to get something out in public because everybody is guessing [what happened] right now. There have been some pretty educated guesses [based around chief executive Chen Juilin