Former prime minister Najib Razak faces judgment on Dec 26 for his alleged involvement in Malaysia’s 1MDB mega-graft scandal, with a guilty verdict likely to add years to a sentence already being served. The 72-year-old faces four counts of abuse of power and 21 counts of money laundering relating to the plunder of hundreds of millions of dollars from the South-east Asian nation’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund, sparking probes in several countries. If found guilty, the man once seen as political royalty faces years more behind bars, already serving a six-year jail term after a conviction in a separate case relating to the 1MDB fund.
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