A Malaysian court on Nov 27 allowed corruption charges linked to the 1MDB scandal against jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak and the former treasury chief to be dropped, their lawyers said. Najib faces several trials linked to the scandal involving the misappropriation of government funds worth RM6 billion.
KUALA LUMPUR – A Malaysian court on Nov 27 allowed corruption charges linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal filed against jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak and the former treasury chief to be dropped, their lawyers said.
Najib, who helped found 1MDB when he was premier in 2009, was found guilty of corruption and money laundering in a case linked to the scandal and sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2022, though the term was later halved by a pardon’s board chaired by Malaysia’s king. “The court correctly exercised its jurisdiction to discharge our client of the charges, consonant with the law,” Najib’s lawyer Muhammad Farhan Muhammad Shafee said in a text message.
That came amid accusations that current Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who was voted in two years ago on an anti-corruption platform, is backsliding on promised reforms. Anwar has said he remains committed to tackling graft but does not interfere in court cases.
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