May 22, 2018

PUTRAJAYA -- Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak arrived on Tuesday (May 22) at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) headquarters in Putrajaya.

Najib gave a statement in a probe into a multi-billion dollar corruption scandal linked to debt-ridden state development fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

The embattled former leader has been ordered by the MACC to explain a suspicious transfer of RM42 million (US$10.6 million) into his bank account.

The sum is just a fraction of billions of dollars allegedly siphoned from state fund 1MDB, a scandal that dogged the last three years of Najib's near-decade-long rule and was one of the main reasons his ruling Barisan Nasional coalition lost in the May 9 election.

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