KUALA LUMPUR: Jailed former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has asked a court to suspend a 15-year prison sentence imposed for his involvement in a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal, his lawyer said on Friday (Sep 25), a week after he received a royal pardon on a separate conviction.
Najib, 73, has been in jail since 2022 after being found guilty of graft and money laundering linked to the theft of billions of dollars from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a state fund he co-founded while in office. He has consistently denied wrongdoing.
Malaysia’s King Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar last week granted a conditional pardon to…
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