KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's highest court has ruled that former prime minister Najib Razak will face trial as scheduled next week, despite a last-ditch attempt by his defence team to delay the proceedings.
A five-judge federal court on Tuesday unanimously upheld a decision by a lower court to hold the trial on Aug 19, with Chief Justice Tengku Maimun saying that"there was no error in judgment". 1MDB is the subject of an international graft investigation over suspicions that US$4.5 billion of public money was misappropriated by high-ranking Malaysian officials, including the former premier, his family and closest aides.
The trial, called the SRC trial, was disrupted in late July after a bomb hoax prompted a mass evacuation of the court complex. The scandal surrounding 1MDB, which was set up by Najib in 2009 to promote foreign investment in the country, was instrumental in his ouster from government.
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