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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Latest news on the 1MDB corruption case against former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (all local):
22:20
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, vice-president Malaysian prime minister the rule of law must be followed in the pursuit of former Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Wan Azizah said Wednesday at a conference in Mongolia that she "does not think it's fair that someone should be judged on a media lawsuit – that's the only way in which they are doing it. is important. "
Wan Azizah is the wife of reformist leader Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar was convicted in 2015 of a sodomy charge he invented to destroy his political career and was released in May after obtaining a royal pardon.
Najib was charged on Wednesday with three charges of breach of trust. scandal to a state investment fund
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4:40 pm
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says after posting bail for four corruption charges that the trial is the best option to prove his innocence. At a press conference after Wednesday's hearing, Najib said that a trial was "the best chance for me to launder my name after all the slander and accusations."
The trial is scheduled to begin on February 8, subject to confirmation at a preliminary hearing next month.
He pleaded not guilty to all the charges brought before the High Court of Kuala Lumpur. A judge gave a cash deposit of 1 million ringgit ($ 250,000) and ordered Najib to hand over his two diplomatic passports.
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11:50
A High Court Judge of Malaysia has approved a bail of 1 million ringgit of money ($ 250,000) for former Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Judge Mohamad Sofian Abdul Razak fixed the amount of the bond and asked Najib to hand over his two diplomatic passports. Najib has already pleaded not guilty to four charges in the corruption case involving the state investment fund 1MDB
The criminal charges come two months after the scandal involving the indebted fund has led to the electoral defeat of Najib
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to four charges in the corruption case against him by state attorneys.
"I claim the lawsuit," he said in a barely audible voice. in the Kuala Lumpur High Court
His lawyers have applied for bail and the amount is still pending. Prosecutors want bail of 4 million ringgit (nearly $ 1 million)
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9:15
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was indicted in a Malaysian court of three heads of Breach of trust. scandal to a state investment fund.
Each of the three charges has a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The whiplash is also a penalty, but Najib would be exempt because he's over 60 years old.
A judge said that Najib is accused of abusing his power between December 2014 and March 2015 when approximately $ 10 million was transferred. state funds to his bank account.
The case will be transferred to the High Court where Najib is expected to make his argument on Wednesday. Najib Razak arrived at a Kuala Lumpur courthouse to face charges stemming from a corruption investigation two months after his defeat in the 2006 elections. Najib was arrested Tuesday by anti-corruption agents Following a suspicious transfer of 42 million ringgit ($ 10.4 million) into his bank accounts of SRC International, a former unit of the 1MDB investment fund, according to US investigators. Najib, 64, Najib, 64, denies having committed a wrongdoing and has accused of not having committed breach of trust. the new government to seek "political revenge."
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