{"id":58450,"date":"2019-04-04T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T10:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=58450"},"modified":"2019-04-04T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T10:55:26","slug":"malaysia-former-pm-najib-goes-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/malaysia-former-pm-najib-goes-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia former PM Najib goes on trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malaysia\u2019s disgraced ex-leader Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to all charges against him as he went on trial on Wednesday over a multi-billion-dollar fraud, almost a year after his shock election loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 65-year-old faced the first of several trials over his alleged involvement in the looting of sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, a state investment vehicle established to develop the economy of the Southeast Asian nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former premier and his cronies are accused of plundering billions of dollars from the fund and spending it on everything from high-end real estate to artworks and a luxury yacht.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had been tipped to win another term in office easily last year and extend his coalition\u2019s six-decade stranglehold on power, only to be soundly defeated by his former boss, Mahathir Mohamad, who rode a wave of public anger over 1MDB to the premiership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the months that followed, once-dormant investigations into the controversy were relaunched and Najib was hit with dozens of corruption charges linked to the plundering of the fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s disgraced ex-leader Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to all charges against him as he went on trial on Wednesday over a multi-billion-dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58450","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\/58450","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=58450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58452,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58450\/revisions\/58452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}