Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak avoids jail for now
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was allowed to walk out of the High Court in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday night but his bail was increased and he will have to report to police regularly pending appeal after he was found guilty of all charges in the first trial to test corruption allegations flowing from the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.
Judge Mohd Nazlan Ghazali found the prosecution had successfully made its case for abuse of power, criminal breach of trust and money-laundering charges by Najib related to the receipt of 42 million ringgit ($13.8 million) from 1MDB subsidiary SRC International.
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