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Malaysia’s second highest court has upheld a 12-year jail sentence previously handed to former prime minister Najib Razak in the first of several criminal cases linking him to the 1MDB financial scandal. The three-judge Court of Appeal ruled that the High Court’s decision to convict Najib of all seven counts in the trial last July was correct, and upheld the...

Najib Razak was seeking to overturn a 12-year jail sentence for his part in one of the world’s most notorious financial frauds.

The court found he had illegally received about $10 million from SRC International, a former unit of now-defunct 1MDB, although Najib pleaded not guilty and has consistently denied wrongdoing.

   PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, Dec 8, 2021 (BSS/AFP) - A Malaysian appeal court on Wednesday upheld former leader Najib Razak's corruption conviction

Malaysian former premier loses corruption appeal - World - KUALA LUMPUR: File photo taken on August 19, 2019 shows Malaysias former prime minister Najib Razak arriving at the Kuala Lumpur High Court for his trial over...

Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak lost his appeal against a corruption conviction and 12-year jail term Wednesday, with the judge branding his actions a "national embarrassment" but allowing him to remain free.

In handing down the decision, an appeal judge described Najib Razak’s actions as a “national embarrassment.”

The ex-leader has one chance left to rid himself of corruption conviction in 1MDB-related case.

The Malaysian Court of Appeal sustained former Prime Minister Najib Razak's guilty judgment in a corruption trial involving 1MDB-linked funds on Tuesday.

“We dismiss the appellant’s appeal,” judge Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil told the Court of Appeal in administrative capital Putrajaya. A Malaysian appeal court