Najib Razak

The call came as U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance reportedly seeks to revive stalled negotiations and Qatari mediators visit Tehran.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will remain in prison as he has yet to pay the 50 million ringgit fine imposed in the SRC international case.

The Attorney General confirmed this, adding no deadline has been set for payment.

Najib was originally sentenced to 12 years jail in 2020 after being convicted on charges involving 42 million ringgit in SRC international funds.

ICA said stepped-up security checks at all checkpoints could also add to delays.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will remain in prison as he has yet to pay the 50 million ringgit fine imposed in the SRC international case.

The Attorney General confirmed this, adding no deadline has been set for payment.

Najib was originally sentenced to 12 years jail in 2020 after being convicted on charges involving 42 million ringgit in SRC international funds.

Public officials and their associates, known as politically exposed persons, were involved in more than half of the U.S. cases that the GFI reviewed.

Those PEPs included Genaro Garcia Luna, a former Mexican security minister who bought millions of dollars of U.S. property while accused of taking bribes from the Sinaloa cartel, and the stepson of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was arrested in 2019 for his alleged role in the 1MDB scandal.

So, you know, it's no big deal, right? You have operators for the cartel, people who are in bed with Sinaloa.

No problem.

Lebanon-based jewelry company Global Royalty Trading, SAL, is preparing to enforce the court judgment it won against Rosmah Mansour.

But Najib Abdul Razak's wife is fighting back, with her appeal still pending.

In a statement today, Rosemont's lawyers said that any move to enforce or execute the judgment shall be resisted vigorously by their client.

They said their client has consistently maintained that the claim by the company against her is unsubstantiated and therefore without any basis in fact and or in law.

Mm-hmm.

which was an issue when GST was first implemented under Najib in 2015.

When I was special officer to Lim Gan Eng, we saw that there were tens of billions of ringgit of unrefunded GST, whereby we actually had to ask Petronas to come in to give us a lump sum to refund these GST late refunds, including to big companies and small companies.

So that's something that I think hasn't really been communicated in a very transparent way.

So probably he will want to wait until after the SEA Games.

Maybe if we do well, that is a feel-good factor.

Najib failed to dissolve parliament after the SEA Games in 2017 where Malaysia did very well and that probably cost him the elections.

Of course, things can go wrong during the SEA Games as well in terms of organisation, medals we win and things like that.

Baginda brokered that deal on behalf of his boss.

That boss was none other than the future Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Najib Rizak was, at the time of Alton Tuyu's murder, the defence minister and also the deputy prime minister.

His father had been prime minister, so he believed, you know, from an early age that he would be prime minister of Malaysia.

Bala's declaration sends shockwaves through the corridors of power.

The heir apparent to the highest seat in government has just been implicated in one of the most gruesome murders Malaysia has ever seen.

What he revealed in that statutory declaration was that she had actually had an affair with Najib Razak and that then she went on to have an affair with Razak Baginda and that she was owed $500,000.

That statutory declaration was explosive.

I think we'll talk about that maybe the next recording.

But of course, of late, talking about the last few months, one of the hottest political developments will be the whole discussion on the pardon of ex-Prime Minister Najib.

And so the pardon board, kind of announced.

And I think this is where people get a bit lost, right? You know, you have some people who think that the pardon board decides the pardon, but the power of pardon, according to the constitution, is strictly the exercise of the monarch, the king.

confused pertaining to the duties of the royalty and also actually the right to actually say that you are unhappy because I mean the crown did go through a season where they were very very unpopular so like they had to come out with the BBC TV and things like that series and they were really really like the popularity just like down the drain and they have to also try to improve their public image but you see the more they try to become more popular I think that's why you also get a lot of criticism, like King Charles also get a lot of criticism pertaining to how friendly he is with the immigrants, the Muslim immigrants and things like that.

So I feel like it's a sort of balance, but that's the thing for the royalty to decide, right? But it shouldn't hinder us from actually voicing out.

yeah and the other thing i think people don't quite understand about our constitution is that the monarch actually are given um in terms of comparing with british for example i think our monarch actually have more power and in terms of certain appointment in terms of certain discretions And so to say that they are only able to act on the advice of the Prime Minister, which is like the general kind of understanding, it's actually not correct also because we have seen so many actual examples, right? We look at the Perak constitutional crisis and we look at 2018 general election.

Remember when Pakatan finally got over the bump and they have a few candidates presented to the palace and they were like, some reason was given to kind of indicate the candidate was not appropriate and things like that.