Malaysia is due to hold an election by August 2018, and a government official has told Reuters that Prime Minister Najib Razak could call for a poll in the second half of 2017.
Morgan Stanley also is accused of a similar incident in 2019, but it was able to recover the equipment, court documents show.
A cheap and supported currency was also a boon to the market, the bank said, as the real effective exchange rate of the ringgit is at a 14 percent discount to its 10-year average.