THE Kuala Lumpur High Court has found former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak guilty of four counts of abuse of power and 21 counts of money laundering involving RM2.28 bil in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) case.
Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah, the Federal Court judge who previously presided over the 1MDB trial at the High Court, delivered his judgment to a packed courtroom after finding that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Najib’s conviction comes after the court delivered a lengthy judgment, taking nearly four and a half hours to read, following a High Court trial that lasted over 300 days across more than six years.
The charges are as follows:
- Receiving US$681 mil (RM2.08 bil) belonging to a 1MDB subsidiary, transferred from Tanore Finance Corporation’s account into Najib’s Account 9694 in nine transactions between March 22 and April 10, 2013.
- Issuing five cheques totalling RM22.649 mil between Aug 2 and Aug 14, 2013 comprising RM20 mil to UMNO, RM100,000 to UMNO Batu Kawan, and three cheques totalling RM2.549 mil for speechwriting and social media management services.
- Transferring US$620 mil (RM2.034 bil) in five transactions from Najib’s Account 9694 back to Tanore between Aug 2 and Aug 23, 2013.
- Transferring RM161.41 mil in two transactions from Najib’s Account 9694 to his new personal AmIslamic Bank account (Account 1880) on Aug 27 and Aug 30, 2013. – Dec 26, 2025
