{"id":17849,"date":"2019-04-03T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17849"},"modified":"2019-04-03T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T03:37:05","slug":"najib-s-trial-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17849","title":{"rendered":"1MDB scandal: Malaysia ex-PM Najib set to stand trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/najib-large-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17850\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/najib-large-1024x615.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/najib-large-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/najib-large-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/najib-large-600x360.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/najib-large.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy Bernama<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 (NNN- Bernama) \u2013 Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will be tried on seven charges involving RM42 million <br>\u00a0(US$10.3 million)  of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds in the High Court here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coincidentally, on this same day 10 years ago, Najib, who is Pekan Member of Parliament, was sworn in as the sixth prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The much-awaited high profile trial will be heard before Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali at 2 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Najib, 66, is facing three counts of criminal breach of trust, one charge of abusing his position and three counts of money laundering over SRC International Sdn Bhd funds amounting to RM42 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney-General Tommy Thomas will lead the prosecution team which consists of senior lawyers who were appointed as deputy public prosecutors (DPP), comprising Datuk Sulaiman Abdullah and Datuk V. Sithambaran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are assisted by DPP Datuk Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria, Manoj Kurup, Budiman Lutfi Mohamed and Muhammad Izzat Fauzan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah is leading the defence team and he is assisted by lawyers Harvinderjit Singh, Muhammad Farhan Muhammad Shafee, Rahmat Hazlan and Syahirah Hanapiah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 (NNN- Bernama) \u2013 Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will be tried on seven charges involving RM42 million \u00a0(US$10.3 million) of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds in the High Court here today. Coincidentally, on this same day 10 years ago, Najib, who is Pekan Member of Parliament, was sworn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":17850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}