{"id":47763,"date":"2022-08-23T18:21:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T09:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/23\/malaysia-ex-pm-najib-razak-loses-1mdb-appeal"},"modified":"2022-08-23T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:58:24","slug":"malaysias-ex-pm-najib-razak-loses-final-appeal-in-1mdb-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47763","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s ex\u2013PM Najib sent to prison as final 1MDB appeal lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal court upholds conviction and 12-year sentence linked to fraud, saying appeal \u2018devoid of any merits\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s former prime minister Najib Razak has been<strong> <\/strong>ordered to begin a 12-year prison sentence after he lost his final appeal against a conviction linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, one of the world\u2019s biggest financial frauds.<\/p>\n<p>A five-member federal court panel said it unanimously found that Najib\u2019s appeal was \u201cdevoid of any merits\u201d, seemingly sealing the stunning downfall of the 69-year-old, who has become Malaysia\u2019s first former PM to be jailed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/23\/malaysia-ex-pm-najib-razak-loses-1mdb-appeal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal court upholds conviction and 12-year sentence linked to fraud, saying appeal \u2018devoid of any merits\u2019Malaysia\u2019s former prime minister Najib Razak has been ordered to begin a 12-year prison sentence after he lost his final appeal against a convict&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"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-47763","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\/47763","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\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47780,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47763\/revisions\/47780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}