Najib dealt another legal blow as court orders him to enter defence in RM2.27 billion case

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Najib dealt another legal blow as court orders him to enter defence in RM2.27 billion case

The High Court today found there is a prima facie case against Najib Razak in the four charges of power abuse connected to the the RM2.27 billion 1MDB funds, dealing a blow to the former leader in his quest for an early release following the partial pardon halving his current jail sentence.

Najib is facing 25 counts of power abuse and money- laundering - in relation to 1MDB’s RM2.27 billion transferred into his bank accounts - some four months after his fall from power following an election campaign led by Dr Mahathir Mohamad that centred on the 1MDB scandal.

He is currently serving his 12-year sentence, which was reduced to six years following a partial pardon by former Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, which has since been mired in controversy over a claim that the monarch had instructed that the former leader serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.

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