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Damning evidence against Malaysia’s No.1 thief/pencuri Najib: Cover-up bid and forged letters promising ‘donations’
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 26, 2025: The High Court found damning evidence against the corrupt, disgraced and shameless former Umno president and prime minister Najib “1MDB” Razak.
No News Is Bad News reproduces below news reports on the court proceedings that found Malaysia’s No.1 thief/pencuri guilty of 25 charges of power abuse and money laundering:
Najib took ‘drastic’ action after 1MDB scandal broke out, says judge
The High Court found that a task force, set up to probe 1MDB in 2015, was subsequently disbanded, and two key officials were 'removed' from office.
Najib Razak used fugitive businessman Jho Low as an intermediary between himself and the 1MDB management team, according to the High Court.
PUTRAJAYA: Former prime minister Najib Razak took “drastic” measures after the 1MDB scandal erupted more than 10 years ago, the High Court found.
Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah, reading out his verdict, noted, however, that no reports were filed either with the police or the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission against Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, a key figure in the 1MDB saga.
Neither were reports lodged in connection with Najib’s claims that certain individuals had “forged” his signature on documents linked to the fund, the judge said.
Sequerah also noted that a task force investigating 1MDB, comprising senior officers from the Attorney-General’s Chambers, the police, MACC, and Bank Negara Malaysia, was set up in 2015.
The task force was later reportedly disbanded.
Najib had previously testified that he did not disband this task force, saying instead that it was an “administrative decision” communicated at the “appropriate institutional level”.
Sequerah found that it was Najib who “took action” to disband the group.
The court noted that in the same year, then attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail, along with MACC chief commissioner Abu Kassim Mohamed and his deputies were removed from office.
“The accused person (Najib) had also asked (BNM governor) Tan Sri Zeti (Akhtar Aziz) to issue a media statement clearing him of wrongdoings in relation to activities in his bank accounts.
“The above clearly shows a moment of passing interest in the affairs of 1MDB and serves to highlight the extent of the steps of action that he took in order to protect and consolidate this interest.
“It forms an inference that he took various forms of action – sometimes drastic – in relation to matters involving 1MDB in which he undoubtedly had interest,” he said.
Jho Low the ‘middleman’, court finds
The court also found that Low acted as an intermediary between the 1MDB management team and Najib although he held no official position in the company.
Sequerah said that during the defence stage, Najib sought to distance himself from the Penang businessman, claiming that Low, together with several 1MDB officers, including former CEOs Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi and Hazem Abd Rahman, former chief financial officer Azmi Tahir, and former legal counsel Jasmine Loo, had “conspired” to embezzle funds from the company.
“(Najib’s) contention that he was misled by Low and those officers has no merit,” he said.
Sequerah noted that to this day, 1MDB has not initiated any domestic inquiries against Shahrol or the other former officers, nor have they been subjected to any investigation by the authorities.
“These witnesses were not on trial,” he said.
The court took note of Najib’s extensive background in politics and government.
“He is not a ‘country bumpkin’ but of superior intelligence.
“To paint him as someone unaware of what happened in 1MDB cannot hold water,” Sequerah said.
The judge will deliver his verdict later today.
Letters promising ‘donations’ to Najib were forged, says High Court
Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah says the documents were never produced in their original form before the court.
Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah said Najib Razak failed to verify that the money actually came from the late King Abdullah’s family.
PUTRAJAYA: The four “Arab donation” letters relied on by former prime minister Najib Razak in his defence in the 1MDB corruption case were “forged”, the High Court ruled today.
Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah, in analysing the facts, said the defence had failed to convince the court that the funds were “Arab donations”, as Najib had claimed.
He pointed to the testimony of two witnesses – former Malaysia ambassador to Saudi Arabia Syed Omar Al-Saggaf and former religious affairs minister Jamil Khir Baharom – who were with Najib in the late King Abdullah’s palace sometime in January 2010.
Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah.
Both Jamil and Syed Omar previously testified that Najib had told them King Abdullah intended to provide some form of financial “aid”.
“They only heard what the accused told them after he met the Saudi monarch, making their testimonies inconclusive. There is nothing to support this contention by the defence,” Sequerah said, adding that the letters were never produced in their original form before the court.
He said Najib failed to verify that the money actually came from the late monarch’s family and noted that the former premier had merely “anchored his belief on a wider circle of the royal family”.
Sequerah said there was no evidence that the funds were meant to be transferred in instalments, observing that the funds went through third-party private companies, including Vista Equity, Blackstone and Tanore – entities controlled by fugitive Eric Tan – which did not support the defence team’s donation claim.
He said former 1MDB legal counsel Jasmine Loo also testified that she saw fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho instruct his aide, Kee Kok Thiam, to “draft” one of the donation letters during a meeting at a London hotel, and that she saw the letter on Kee’s laptop.
MACC’s trip preplanned to complete the ‘donor’ story, court finds
At the end of 2015, a team of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission officers and a former deputy public prosecutor went to Riyadh to investigate the veracity of the four letters said to have been signed and sent by one “Prince Saud Abdulaziz Al-Saud” to Najib, dated between Feb 1, 2011 and June 1, 2014.
Sequerah said the trip was “pre-planned” as no proper statement was recorded from the “prince”.
He noted that investigating and recording officers Nasharudin Amir and Hafaz Nazar said they were only given a prepared statement by Saud’s legal representative, Abdullah Al Koman, and were unable to ask him further questions.
“Nasharudin said he was not able to see Saud’s passport. There was no proper profiling of the individuals who were there.
“He even said he was not satisfied (during the recording statement process),” he said, adding that the trip was an attempt to “complete the story” about the donation.
Sequerah adjourned court for Friday prayers and said the proceedings will resume at 3pm. He indicated that he would take another three hours to complete reading his verdict.
Najib, 72, faces four charges of using his position to obtain RM2.3 billion in bribes from 1MDB funds through the AmIslamic Bank Berhad branch on Jalan Raja Chulan between Feb 24, 2011, and Dec 19, 2014.
These charges were brought under Section 23(1) of the MACC Act, which carries up to 20 years imprisonment and a fine of either five times the amount of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is higher, upon conviction.
He is also accused of committing an additional 21 counts of money laundering at the same bank between March 22, 2013, and Aug 30, 2013.
These charges were framed under Section 4(1)(a) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001, which carries a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment, a fine of up to RM5 million, or both, upon conviction.
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