Najib Razak

Malaysia's former first lady Rosmah Mansor was convicted on Thursday of soliciting and receiving bribes during her husband's corruption-tainted administration on Thursday, a week after her husband was imprisoned over the massive looting of the 1MDB state fund. Rosmah was found guilty on three charges of soliciting bribes and receiving 6.5 million ringgit (USD 1.5 million) between 2016 and 2017 to help a company secure a project to provide solar energy panels to schools on Borneo island. She is expected to remain out on bail for her appeal to higher courts. High Court Judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan said prosecutors proved beyond reasonable doubt that Rosmah corruptly solicited bribes and received money as a reward for herself. He said her defense was a bare denial. Najib began a 12-year prison term last week after losing his final appeal in one of the five graft cases against him involving the multibillion-dollar pilfering of 1MDB. Before the verdict, the court heard Rosmah's applicatio

The wife of jailed Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak has sought to remove the judge set to deliver a verdict in her graft trial on Thursday, citing a loss of confidence after an alleged guilty judgment was leaked online. Rosmah Mansor faces three charges of soliciting bribes and receiving 6.5 million ringgit (USD 1.5 million) between 2016 and 2017 to help a company secure a 1.25 billion ringgit (USD 279 million) project to provide solar energy panels to schools on Borneo island. The verdict comes a week after Najib began his 12-year prison term after losing his final appeal in one of the five graft cases against him involving the pilfering of the 1MDB state fund. In her application filed on Tuesday, Rosmah cited a 71-page document posted last Friday on a website that allegedly contained a guilty judgment against her. She said she was shocked to read it was not written by the judge himself but by unknown people in the court's research unit". As such, Rosmah said she was not .

Jailed Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak returned to court Thursday for a second corruption trial over the pilfering of the 1MDB state fund, two days after he began a 12-year prison term for graft. Najib, 69, became Malaysia's first leader to be imprisoned Tuesday after the country's top court rejected his final appeal in his first graft case linked to the looting of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund. His incarceration comes four years after his election ouster over the scandal and was celebrated by many citizens as justice served. Wearing a dark blue suit, red tie and face mask, Najib sat impassively in the dock without handcuffs as the hearing began. He was earlier brought into the court complex in a tinted police vehicle under heavy security to avoid a crowd of media waiting to catch a glimpse of him. The current trial began in August 2019 and is the most significant as it ties Najib directly to the 1MDB scandal that has prompted investigations in the U.S. and several .

The five-member Federal Court panel said it unanimously found the high court judge was right in his judgment and that Najib's appeal was "devoid of any merits"

Mahathir Mohamad, who was prime minister twice, said Malaysia's king could extend a pardon to Najib in the same way current opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was given

Malaysia's Court of Appeal began hearing a bid by ex Prime Minister Najib Razak to set aside his conviction on corruption charges in a case linked to a multi-billion dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB

The trial will resume Oct. 19 as Najib remains under two-week quarantine at his home after returning from a political campaign

Najib Razak was found guilty of corruption, money laundering; fined $50 million

The court also sentenced him to 10 years in jail on each of three charges of criminal breach of trust and three charges of money laundering

Former Malaysian PM Razak was found guilty of charges related to misappropriation of 42 million Malaysian Ringgit from at the state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad

Najib is charged in four other cases in the scandal that led to his shocking election ouster last year

The charge sheets said part of the money involved a subsidy for the poor and an airport management budget but gave no further details

Malaysia's new government is probing the disappearance of billions of dollars from sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, which was set up and overseen by Najib

Najib pleaded not guilty to three charges of criminal breach of trust and one count of abuse of power

The order by immigration authorities came minutes after Najib said in a Facebook post that he and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, were taking a week-long holiday overseas

Scandal-hit Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak today announced a cabinet reshuffle

Najib has been battling allegations that the money was funnelled from heavily indebted state investment fund 1MDB into his accounts