Even with a conditional pardon in hand and news that he'll serve out the remainder of his SRC International sentence under house arrest, former prime minister Najib Razak's legal troubles are nowhere near finished. His conviction on 25 charges tied to roughly RM2.3 billion in 1MDB-linked abuse of power and money laundering still stands, and that case alone keeps generating fresh court dates.
Beyond the criminal side, Najib is also facing a tangle of civil claims worth billions more, on top of appeals that continue to work their way through the system years after the original 1MDB scandal broke. It hasn't all gone against him either. He and former 1MDB chief executive Arul Kanda Kandasamy were both cleared in a separate audit tampering case after prosecutors missed a filing deadline for their appeal, and he was also discharged and acquitted of money laundering charges tied to RM27 million in SRC International funds a while back.
It's a messy, sprawling legal picture that captures just how far-reaching the 1MDB affair became, touching everything from criminal courts to international arbitration. For a story that many Malaysians assumed would have wrapped up by now, it keeps finding new chapters to write.
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