KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 (Reuters) - The two-year prison

sentence for a former Goldman Sachs banker in the multi-billion

dollar scandal involving Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund 1MDB

was too lenient, a Malaysian minister said on Friday.

Malaysia's Commodities Minister Johari Abdul Ghani, speaking

in his capacity as the chairman of the 1MDB asset recovery

taskforce, said ex-Goldman banker Tim Leissner should be given a

maximum jail sentence "considering he is one of the masterminds

facilitating the 1MDB scandal".

Leissner, a former Southeast Asia chairman for Goldman, was

sentenced to two years in prison by a judge in a New York court

on Thursday for his role in the 1MDB scandal.