2025-12-27
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He gave me hope.
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I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 1600 hours GMT on Friday the 26th of December these are our main stories.
Malaysia's former Prime Minister has been sentenced to 15 years in prison over his involvement in one of the world's biggest corruption scandals.
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The one MDB corruption scandal in Malaysia which involved siphoning off huge sums from the state-owned wealth fund made headlines around the world when it came to light a decade ago.
Now the former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been found guilty of money laundering and abusing his power to plunder the state funds.
He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
He's already serving six years for a separate case over the multi-billion dollar embezzlement from the state investment scheme.
His lawyer says Mr Najib will appeal.
A correspondent in South-East Asia Surajana Tawari has been following the case.
Yeah, he's been found guilty of abuse of power and money laundering,