Najib Razak

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak scored a rare legal victory Friday as the country's high court freed him from one of his cases involving ...

Former leader will remain in prison where he is serving a 12-year sentence on other charges related to the 1MDB scandal.

“The first accused [Arul Kanda] is discharged and acquitted from the charge. Najib, who became the first former leader in Malaysia’s history to go to prison, still faces multiple charges related to the scandal, which has also sparked investigations in the US, Switzerland and Singapore. Former leader will remain in prison where he is serving a 12-year sentence on other charges related to the 1MDB scandal.

Najib Razak was charged in 2018 with abusing his position as Prime Minister to amend a government audit into the multibillion-dollar scandal at 1Malaysia ...

"(The court) found that there was no element of gratification... Malaysia's 1MDB is the subject of corruption and money-laundering investigations in at least six countries. Najib — who is serving a 12-year prison sentence after being found guilty in a separate case — was charged in 2018 with abusing his position as Prime Minister to amend a government audit into the multibillion-dollar scandal at 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). A Malaysian court on March 3 acquitted former Prime Minister Najib Razak and the former chief executive of scandal-linked state fund 1MDB of corruption charges linked to [took office in November last year](https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/malaysia-king-names-reformist-leader-anwar-ibrahim-as-prime-minister/article66177507.ece), ordering a review into the previous administration's projects in a bid to root out graft. [a 2016 government audit into the fund](https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/najib-razak-and-the-1mdb-scandal/article65826093.ece), their lawyers said.

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Arul Kanda Kandasamy walk free from the power abuse case involving the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) audit ...

Najib Razak: Najib, who is serving a 12-year prison term after losing the final appeal in his first of several corruption trials linked to the 1MDB scandal, ...

He and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, were hit with multiple graft charges after the saga led to his ruling coalition's shocking defeat in 2018 general elections. Shafee has maintained that charges against Najib were politically motivated. More than USD 700 million landed in Najib's bank accounts.

KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has arrived at the High Court here to find out whether both he and former 1Malaysia Development ...

How useful is this article to you? The offence was allegedly committed at the Prime Minister's Department Complex at the Federal Government Administrative Centre in Putrajaya between Feb 22 and 26, 2016. Najib, who is currently serving his prison sentence for the SRC case, arrived at the court complex at around 8.40am in a black SUV escorted by police and Prisons Department vehicles.

A Malaysian court on Friday acquitted jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak of audit tampering in one of the many cases he faces over a multi-billion ...

Najib faces three more cases related to corruption at various government entities and 1MDB, a fund he co-founded in 2009. "(The court) found that there was no element of gratification... Friday's acquittal was on a charge of abusing his position as prime minister to amend a government audit into 1MDB.