{"id":21070,"date":"2020-07-28T13:28:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T04:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/1mdb-scandal-najib-razak-verdict-malaysia"},"modified":"2020-07-28T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T12:32:11","slug":"1mdb-scandal-najib-razak-found-guilty-in-first-trial-linked-to-vast-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21070","title":{"rendered":"1MDB scandal: Najib Razak handed 12-year jail sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Malaysian PM convicted of all seven charges in first trial linked to multibillion dollar scandal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/25\/1mdb-scandal-explained-a-tale-of-malaysias-missing-billions\">1MDB scandal explained: a tale of Malaysia\u2019s missing billions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s former prime minister Najib Razak has been found guilty of all seven charges in his first trial linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal<strong> <\/strong>\u2013 a landmark conviction that means he now faces 12 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Najib has denied any wrongdoing in relation to what is one of the world\u2019s biggest financial frauds, in which billions of dollars were allegedly looted from a state fund set up to promote development. The scandal shook Malaysian politics, led to the ousting of Najib\u2019s Umno party after 61 years in power, and prompted a series of investigations in countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/1mdb-scandal-najib-razak-verdict-malaysia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Malaysian PM convicted of all seven charges in first trial linked to multibillion dollar scandal1MDB scandal explained: a tale of Malaysia\u2019s missing billionsMalaysia\u2019s former prime minister Najib Razak has been found guilty of all seven charges in h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,41,70,341,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-najib-razak","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21094,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions\/21094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}