KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak is due to spend 12 years in prison, after being found guilty on Tuesday in his first corruption trial stemming from the multibillion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.
The Malaysian High Court convicted Najib on seven out of seven counts in connection with funds misappropriated from a subsidiary of the now-defunct state fund. The former leader, wearing a beige suit, listened calmly as Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali explained his decisions on a charge of abuse of power, three counts of criminal breach of trust and three charges of money laundering.
