Malaysia top court maintains ex-PM Najib's conviction in 1MDB case

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malaysia where the top court has maintained

a blameworthy decision and prison sentence

against previous state head najib

razak najib pursued a 2020 conviction

for illegal tax avoidance and debasement and

a 12-year jail term examiners have

said four and a half billion bucks was

taken from the 1mdb asset which he

helped to establish the court charged najib for

wrongfully getting 10 million bucks

from that reserve he's been on bail since

2018 forthcoming that interest for more on

this story how about we acquire florence louis

he goes along with us live now from kuala lumpur

hey florence what occurred at

court today

well it's been a day of extreme emotion at

court the conference was initially

planned to go for the rest of the

week now rather we heard um najib's

attorneys endeavor to well document an

application asking the main equity to

recuse herself saying that she was

one-sided that application was heard and

excused najib's legal counselors likewise looked to

have the conference deferred that

delay was dismissed and at last

we heard najib talk from the dock

itself where he again endeavored to

depict himself as a casualty of equity

he looked to paint the high court judge

who hurt the underlying case as one-sided he

said the main equity who's hearing

this last allure is could likewise be

one-sided in light of the fact that on the premise that her

spouse had posted basic perspectives on

najib via web-based entertainment quite a long while prior

in any case the five-part board of

the government court um excused those

contentions and the you know the court

said that their discoveries in view of what

they what they read from what the high

court said and furthermore founded on the

entries at the court of allure and

the composed entries that was documented

at the government court their discoveries were

that nothing bad could really be said about the

introductory choice made by the high court

that would warrant this last court to

intercede and consequently they maintained his

liable conviction and it additionally intends that

his sentence of 12 years and a fine of

the surmised worth of 45 million

dollars is maintained

so where to from florence common decency here's

next is he made a beeline for prison

that implies he will go to jail the

judge said there will be no stay of the

sentence now we are as yet holding back to see

what we're actually hanging tight for najib razak

to rise up out of court supposedly

after the court was concluded he was

found in the dock talk addressing

his relatives his child was there

his better half was there too

presently

he will be gone to jail um

also, all things considered, it will work out

today now he will be the primary previous

top state leader of malaysia to be

detained now there were worries that

since um no that is the party to which

najib has a place and this is the predominant

ideological group in malaysia since this

party is currently back in power there were

worries that there could be

impedance in the legal executive and in

these procedures there were concerns

that um equity may not be served um

since we've additionally found in the last not many

years that defilement cases including

lawmakers um

disappeared in light of the fact that the principal legal officer

had chosen not to seek after the cases um

so there were worries that this would be able

happen now this judgment currently will relieve

those feelings of dread and something else is

um on the grounds that najib has long looked to

depict himself as a casualty of political

abuse

that contention will hold less water now

since this judgment

is take this judgment has been conveyed

with his party still in power so it's

going to turn into much more challenging for

him to contend that he is a survivor of

political oppression and this is

significant in light of the fact that recollect there are

additionally a few different cases including one

mdb that are as yet continuous against him

this specific case includes a previous

auxiliary of one mdb and it's for quite some time been

viewed as one of the less complicated

cases in that entirety debasement

in that entire debasement adventure.