Photo : Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak//AFP
A Malaysian court upheld on Tuesday the acquittal of jailed former prime minister Najib Razak on an audit tampering charge in the investigation into corruption at the 1MDB state wealth fund.
Najib is serving a 12-year prison term on other graft charges related to the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad financial scandal.
The plundering of the fund led to investigations around the world, including in the United States, Switzerland and Singapore, into the use of their financial systems to launder money.
But Malaysia’s Court of Appeal struck out the appeal by state prosecutors against the acquittal of the audit tampering charge after prosecutors did not submit documents in time, Najib’s lawyer Mohamed Shafee Abdullah told AFP.
“In this case, the prosecution evidently found no grounds for appeal, resulting in no petition…
