Malaysia's highest court upholds former PM Najib Razak's 12-year jail sentence for corruption in the 1MDB financial scandal
Najib, 69, was found guilty in July 2020 of criminal breach of trust, abuse of power, and money laundering for illegally receiving about $10 million from SRC International.
"We find the appeal devoid of any merits. We find the conviction and sentence to be safe," Chief Justice Maimun Tuan Mat said on Tuesday on behalf of a five-judge panel. Maimun said "it would have been a travesty of justice of the highest order if any reasonable tribunal, faced with such evidence staring it in the face, were to find that the appellant is not guilty of the seven charges preferred against him".
Najib is a UK-educated son of one of Malaysia's founding fathers who had been groomed for the prime minister's post from a young age.Breach of trust
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