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Boxing D-Day for jailbird Najib ‘1MDB’ Razak
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 1, 2025: After a 302-day hearing, the disgraced and shameless former prime minister Najib “1MDB” Razak will learn his fate in the RM2.3 billion 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) graft trial.
On Dec 26 (Boxing Day), Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah is set to deliver his judgment on the four charges of abuse of power and 21 money-laundering charges.
Facebook image The former Umno president is currently serving his jail sentence in Kajang Prison for earlier convictions, also related to 1MDB funds.
No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the court proceedings:
Boxing Day verdict in Najib’s 1MDB power abuse case
Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah fixes date for decision, with former prime minister Najib Razak’s defence team yet to complete its submission.
Najib Razak is on trial for abuse of power and money laundering involving RM2.28 billion in 1MDB funds allegedly deposited into his AmBank accounts between February 2011 and December 2014. (Bernama pic)
PUTRAJAYA: Former prime minister Najib Razak will learn his fate on Dec 26, after the High Court set the date for its verdict in the long-running 1MDB criminal trial in the course of proceedings today.
Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah fixed the date for his decision whether to convict or acquit Najib, even with his defence team yet to finish its closing submissions.
“I know it (the defence’s submissions) will spill over to Nov 4, but I can state here and now that I will deliver my decision on Dec 26,” he said.
Sequerah made known the decision date as Najib’s lead counsel, Shafee Abdullah, sought permission to continue with oral arguments after Friday prayers.
Shafee had requested that proceedings be extended into the afternoon, after Friday prayers, but the judge declined the application.
“Is it on Boxing Day?” Shafee asked, seeking confirmation.
Sequerah replied in the affirmative.
He then fixed Nov 4 for Shafee to wrap up his submissions.
A total of 50 witnesses testified during the prosecution’s case, which went on for 253 hearing days between Aug 28, 2019 to May 30 last year.
On Oct 30 last year, Sequerah ordered Najib to enter his defence, after ruling that the prosecution had established a prima facie case.
The defence began its case on Dec 2, with Najib giving his testimony from the witness stand.
The parties took 58 days to examine and cross-examine 25 defence witnesses, including former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng, former inspector-general of police Fuzi Harun, and former 1MDB chairman Che Lodin Wok Kamaruddin.
Oral submissions at the close of the defence case began on Oct 21 and have spanned 10 hearing days. The proceedings were originally scheduled to complete today.
In his submissions, Shafee called for Najib to be acquitted of all charges, saying the defence had created doubt in the prosecution’s case.
Najib is also represented by lawyers Tania Scivetti and Wan Azwan Aiman Wan Fakhruddin.
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