Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister who chaired 1MDB, was jailed over the looting of the state fund — and the roughly $681 million that landed in his personal bank account became the evidentiary spine of a global financial scandal

Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister who chaired 1MDB, was jailed over the looting of the state fund — and the roughly $681 million that landed in his personal bank account became the evidentiary spine of a global financial scandal

Najib Razak walked into Kajang Prison outside Kuala Lumpur on 23 August 2022, the first Malaysian prime minister ever to be jailed, after the Federal Court upheld a 12-year sentence and a 210 million ringgit fine tied to the looting of a state investment fund he himself had chaired. Investigators had traced roughly $681 million into his personal AmBank accounts, money that prosecutors said originated in 1Malaysia Development Berhad — better know…