00:00The High Court is set to deliver its long-awaited verdict on Friday
00:06in Datuk Sri Najib Razak's RM2.8 billion RM1 MDB trial,
00:11bringing to a close more than seven years of legal proceedings
00:14in one of Malaysia's most consequential corruption cases.
00:17Trial Judge Justice Colin Lawrence Sequeira will rule on whether the former Prime Minister
00:22is guilty of four charges of misappropriating 1 MDB funds and 21 counts of money laundering,
00:28or whether the defence has succeeded in raising reasonable doubt.
00:33Prosecutors contend that Najib was a central decision-maker
00:36who enabled and benefited from a complex scheme to siphon public funds,
00:39while the defence maintains that the money involved were political donations
00:43and that Najib was misled.
00:45If convicted, Najib could be sentenced on the same day,
00:48with his lawyers expected to seek a stay pending appeal.
00:52He is already serving a prison sentence at Kajang Prison
00:54over the separate SRC international case.
01:00Bye-bye.
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