Sat 27.12.2025.
I have to be specific about this being a "High Court Judgement".
The 1MDB case has taken 7 years, involved 76 witnesses, concerned RM50 billion, and one Jho Low still lying very low somewhere. And some 3 million UMNO members are still said to be behind the now guilty Najib. And there are still the Appellate and Federal Courts. And all kinds of legal processes and conflicting minds, hovering around. And the Agong. So it's only a High Court verdict, by one Collin Lawrence Sequerah, yesteday, Friday, 26.12.2025.
The High Court Judge took 5 hours to deliver the judgement, and found Najib, the former Prime Minister who is a son of a former Prime Minister, guilty of all 21 counts of money-laundering charges, and all 4 counts of abuse of power in making illegal transfers of money. The jail sentences for the 21 cases are 5 years each, and the fine of RM 2 billion. For the 4 cases it's a jail of 15 years each, and the fine of RM 11.38 billion. The jail sentences are to run concurrently.
This judgement came 4 days after High Court Judge Alice Loke rejected the "addendum" case Najib had pursued in attempting to turn his already reduced jail sentence in a 2020 SRC verdict to "house arrest". It wouldn't have mattered, with this bigger 1MDB verdict.
In my 2024 book "The Sungai Ujung Diary - Talking Politics", I have written about this 1MDB case several times.
On page 200, the title "1MDB" was wrtten 11 years ago, on 16.12.2014.
"1MDB - the sequence" on page 209 was written 13.3.2015.
"Is the PM A Crook ?" on page 217 was written on 8.8.2015.
"UMNO 2015 AGM, the Najib Show" on page 226 was written on 12.12.2015.
"Najib girds up for GE 14" on page 264 was written on 6.7.2017.
"Sumpah Laknat" on page 379 was written on 10.12.2021.
"Najib Goes To Jail" on page 393 was written on 23.8.2022.
In any other country, this very tragic story would have ended.
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