{"id":104957,"date":"2020-07-28T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104957"},"modified":"2020-07-28T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T22:38:09","slug":"malaysias-ex-pm-gets-12-year-jail-term-in-corruption-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/28\/malaysias-ex-pm-gets-12-year-jail-term-in-corruption-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s ex-PM gets 12-year jail term in corruption trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> A Malaysian court has sentenced former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty on all seven counts in the first of several multi-million dollar corruption trials, the BBC reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Najib had pleaded not guilty to the charges of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1MDB scandal around a state-owned wealth fund in Malaysia has uncovered a global web of fraud and corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Najib, in office from 2009 to 2018, is expected to remain out of prison until appeals are exhausted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for abuse of power, and 10 years in jail for each of six counts of money laundering and breach of trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sentences are to run concurrently. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News A Malaysian court has sentenced former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty on all seven counts in the first of several multi-million dollar corruption trials, the BBC reports. Najib had pleaded not guilty to the charges of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}