A Malaysian court dropped charges against jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak over criminal breach of trust linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of a state fund

The Malaysian court dropped charges against former Prime Minister Najib Razak, linked to the 1MDB scandal, citing procedural delays and withheld documents. Despite this, Najib, previously convicted, faces additional graft trials.

KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia’s public prosecutors have drawn flak from analysts and observers after former prime minister Najib Razak and former treasury chief Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah were on Nov 27 granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) in a graft case linked to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal.

A Malaysian court on Wednesday allowed corruption charges linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal filed against jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak and the former treasury chief to be dropped,

A Malaysian court on Wednesday allowed corruption charges in one of several cases linked to the scandal-wracked 1MDB sovereign wealth fund against jailed ex-prime minister Najib Razak to be dropped, his lawyer said.

A Malaysian court on Wednesday discharged former Prime Minister Najib Razak from multiple corruption charges involving 6.6 billion ringgit ($1.48 billion) of government funds linked to the 1MDB scandal.

Najib and Irwan Serigar Abdullah had been charged with six counts of criminal breach of trust involving government funds worth 6.6 billion ringgit ($1.48 billion), which officials have said were related to a settlement agreement between 1MDB and Abu Dhabi state fund International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC).

Malaysia’s High Court dropped one of the cases against former Prime Minister Najib Razak related to troubled state fund 1MDB, the New Straits Times reported Wednesday.