Wednesday, 29 July 2020_Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in a first of several cases against him over the misappropriation of state funds.
Kuala Lumpur High Court Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali found Najib guilty of all seven counts in the case on Tuesday.
“After considering all evidence in this trial, I find that the prosecution has successfully proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt,” said the judge.
He sentenced Najib to 12 years and a fine of 210 million ringgit (49 million dollars) for one count of abuse of power on Tuesday.
Najib also received 10 years in jail on each of the three charges of criminal breach of trust and the three charges of money laundering for illegally receiving nearly 10 million dollars from SRC International, a former unit of the state fund 1MDB.
But the judge ordered the prison terms to run concurrently, so the maximum time Najib would serve would be 12 years.
He also allowed a request by Najib’s lawyers to delay the prison sentence and the fine, but asked Najib to post additional bail and report to a police station twice a month.
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