{"id":7912,"date":"2019-08-28T10:48:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T01:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/1mdb-global-scandal-malaysian-former-pm-court-missing-540m"},"modified":"2019-08-28T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:23:22","slug":"1mdb-global-scandal-malaysian-former-pm-faces-court-over-missing-540m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7912","title":{"rendered":"1MDB: Malaysian ex-PM appears in court over missing billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Najib Razak conducted \u2018elaborate charade\u2019 to steal from state fund, trial hears<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s former prime minister Najib Razak abused his power to steal billions from the state to \u201cenrich himself\u201d and then conducted an elaborate charade to cover his tracks, prosecutors in Kuala Lumpur have said.<\/p>\n<p>The first day of the trial of Najib over his alleged involvement in a vast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/25\/1mdb-scandal-explained-a-tale-of-malaysias-missing-billions\">corruption scandal<\/a> opened on Wednesday, after months of delays, with a blistering summary of his alleged crimes by the chief prosecutor, Gopal Sri Ram.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/1mdb-global-scandal-malaysian-former-pm-court-missing-540m\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Najib Razak conducted \u2018elaborate charade\u2019 to steal from state fund, trial hearsMalaysia\u2019s former prime minister Najib Razak abused his power to steal billions from the state to \u201cenrich himself\u201d and then conducted an elaborate charade to cover his track&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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-7912","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\/7912","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}