00:01The long-awaited full grounds of judgment in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1MDB trial have been released and the presiding
00:08judge did not hold back.
00:10Justice Colin Lawrence Sequeira, now a federal court judge, wrote in the 809-page document that the scale of the
00:17financial plunder involved made Attila the Hun, the feared 5th century conqueror, look like a choir boy by comparison.
00:25The global press, he noted, had described the 1MDB scandal as the largest episode of kleptocracy in the world.
00:33Justice Sequeira also reflected on the trial's long and turbulent history.
00:37Charges were first filed against Najib back in September 2018 and the trial only began in August 2019 after transfers
00:46between courts caused delays.
00:48Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, MCOs and further disruptions.
00:53The judge wrote that it took approximately 6 years to conclude, likely the longest trial in Malaysian court history.
01:00His words, an unenviable record.
01:03Najib was convicted on all 25 charges on December 26 last year.
01:074 counts of abusing his position to obtain 2.28 billion ringgit in gratification from 1MDB funds and 21 counts
01:16of money laundering involving the same amount.
01:18The offences were allegedly committed at an Amaslamic bank branch in Bukit Ceylon between 2011 and 2014.
01:27He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 11.387 billion ringgit, one of the largest financial penalties
01:35in Malaysian legal history.
01:36His 1MDB jail term is set to begin in 2028 after he completes his 6-year sentence from the earlier
01:44SRC International case.
01:46How many years are going to do?
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