{"id":48068,"date":"2022-09-01T18:31:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/wife-of-malaysias-jailed-ex-pm-handed-10-years-in-prison-for-bribery"},"modified":"2022-09-01T18:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:31:06","slug":"wife-of-malaysias-jailed-ex-pm-handed-10-years-in-prison-for-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48068","title":{"rendered":"Wife of Malaysia\u2019s jailed ex-PM handed 10 years in prison for bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosmah Mansor convicted of receiving over \u00a31m to help a firm get a schools business contract<\/p>\n<p>The wife of the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for soliciting and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts, one week after her husband was sent to prison for corruption linked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/23\/malaysia-ex-pm-najib-razak-loses-1mdb-appeal\">multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rosmah Mansor, 70, had pleaded not guilty to three charges of soliciting bribes and receiving 6.5m ringgit (\u00a31.3m) in exchange for helping a company secure a contract to provide solar power to schools.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/wife-of-malaysias-jailed-ex-pm-handed-10-years-in-prison-for-bribery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosmah Mansor convicted of receiving over \u00a31m to help a firm get a schools business contractThe wife of the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for soliciting and receiving bribes in exchange for governm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1029,"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-48068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-najib-razak","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48068","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\/1029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48069,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48068\/revisions\/48069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}