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Malaysia\u2019s new government stepped up a corruption investigation into a state fund with a seven-hour police search of the home of former Prime Minister Najib Razak and the creation of a special committee to accelerate the probe.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The police searched Najib\u2019s house until early Thursday morning and also raided an upscale condominium in Kuala Lumpur occupied by his family as part of the money-laundering investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The police took several boxes from the house containing mainly personal belongings such as handbags and clothing, but didn\u2019t find any incriminating documents, said Najib\u2019s lawyer, Harpal Singh Grewal.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He said several policemen went to an upstairs room several hours after the search ended and began drilling a safe that had not been opened for two decades because the key had been lost.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe search conducted in the premises and the items seized thus far would seem of insignificant value and the continued presence of police officers and the drilling of the old safe strongly suggest unwarranted harassment,\u201d Grewal said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Najib has indicated he is willing to cooperate with the probe, but \u201cthis harassment has now continued for almost 18 hours and nothing meaningful has come\u201d of it, the lawyer said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia\u2019s new government stepped up a corruption investigation into a state fund with a seven-hour police search of the home of former Prime Minister Najib Razak and the creation of a special committee to accelerate the probe. The police searched Najib\u2019s house until early Thursday morning and also raided an upscale condominium […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31402,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31400\/revisions\/31402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}