Top court in Malaysia on Friday (March 31) dismissed jailed former prime minister Najib Razak's bid to review his corruption conviction for the multi-billion dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB. The court decision has ended Najib's efforts to overturn the guilty verdict he received.
Najib became the first Malaysian premier to be imprisoned after Malaysia's Federal Court upheld a guilty verdict and 12-year prison sentence handed down to him by a lower court.
Anwar Ibrahim, also called Anwar bin Ibrahim, (born August 10, 1947, Cherok Tok Kun, Penang, Malayan Union [now Malaysia]), Malaysian politician, reformer, and moderate Islamist. He held many government posts in the late 20th century before being jailed for corruption in 1999. After his release from prison, Anwar played a key role in the redistribution of power within Malaysia’s legislature. However, his political career was again interrupted when he was convicted of sodomy in 2014 and imprisoned until 2018. The son of politicians, Anwar embarked on his political career in the late 1960s at the University of Malaya in Kuala
By Harish Sridharan (Reuters) - Malaysia will swear in long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim as prime minister at 5 p.m. (0900 GMT) on Thursday, a.