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Malaysia's appeals court on Monday granted a bid by jailed ex-premier Najib Razak to see a document he said should allow him to serve his sentence at home, in a rare win for a disgraced former ...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Former Malaysian premier Najib Razak, who was convicted of graft over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, could be released by 2028 after his jail sentence was halved by ...
It ties him directly to the scandal and involved 50 witnesses testifying over more than 230 days of hearing. On Oct. 24, Najib issued a rare apology for the scandal “under his watch” but reiterated his innocence. Najib faces up to 20 years in prison for each count of abuse of power and up to five years for each of the money laundering charges.
Najib said he was still "in deep shock" and deeply regretted the 1MDB scandal but maintained his innocence, citing a news report alleging that fugitive businessman Jho Low and two executives at ...
Najib set up the 1MDB development fund shortly after he took office in 2009. Investigators allege at least $4.5 billion was stolen from the fund and laundered by Najib’s associates through ...
The court struck out the appeal after prosecutors failed to meet deadlines in filing documents to support their bid, Najib’s lawyer Mohamed Shafee Abdullah told a news conference. Najib, 70, was ...
The 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal is an ongoing political scandal in Malaysia, [1] in which then-Prime Minister Najib Razak was accused of channeling over RM 2.67 billion (approximately US$700 million) into his personal bank accounts from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a government-run strategic development company.
Najib, who was convicted of graft over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, had his 12-year jail sentence halved in February by a pardons board chaired by Malaysia's then king, Al-Sultan Abdullah ...