Malaysia’s Appeals Court upholds Najib’s acquittal in one of his 1MDB trial

Malaysia’s Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld the acquittal of former Prime Minister Najib Razak of audit tampering in relation to the multibillion dollar looting of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad state fund, though he remains in prison for other graft charges.
Najib’s lawyer Mohamed Shafee Abdullah told a news conference, the court struck out the appeal after prosecutors failed to meet deadlines in filing documents to support their bid.
Najib, 70, was acquitted in March after the High Court ruled prosecutors failed to show that he abused his position to order amendments to a 1MDB audit report in 2016 to coverup wrongdoings before it was presented in Parliament.
The audit tampering is one of Najib’s several corruption trials. He is currently serving a 12-year jail term after losing his final appeal last year in his first of several corruption trials linked to the 1MDB scandal.