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Malaysia’s former PM sentenced to 12 years in jail and fined US$49 million | South China Morning Post

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A Malaysian court on July 28, 2020, sentenced former prime minister Najib Razak to 12 years in jail and fined him 210 million ringgit (US$49.3 million) in the first of five criminal trials linking him to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB corruption scandal, dealing a major setback to his efforts to make a comeback to fro…

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