News about Najib

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 7): Ex-prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Tuesday claimed that he “never cancelled projects by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad” when he was in power, reported The Star yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 28): George Kent (Malaysia) Bhd has clarified that its non-executive director Datuk Dr Keizrul Abdullah’s remark on the award of the LRT3 project was made in his private capacity.

  Lim Kit Siang of DAP said that former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak should experience the "roti canai" roads into the interior of Cameron Highlands, which demonstrated how he has failed the local Orang Asli community.

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  KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 14): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor have denied any conspiracy to defraud controversial carpet trader Deepak Jaikishian of prime land in Bukit Raja here as alleged in the latter's RM576 million suit against the couple and two others, Malaysiakini reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 9): The High Court here has fixed Feb 8 to hear the application of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak (pictured) to recuse Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram from being the senior public prosecutor in his 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) trial, according to Malaysiakini.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 9): Fugitive businessperson Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, has dismissed a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report claiming that he had a role in facilitating deals with China to bail out 1MDB in 2016 in exchange for lucrative contracts.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 9): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Chinese officials have denied a news report claiming that Beijing had in 2016 offered to help bail out 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) in exchange for lucrative contracts.

  In response to the Wall Street Report that alleged former prime minister Najib Razak had signed major deals with China in return for a bailout for 1MDB debts and investigations from a number of countries, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said that the government will examine China-linked projects more closely for elements of corruption.

  The Malaysian government was in the midst of a swelling, multibillion-dollar graft scandal in 2016, when Senior Chinese leaders offered to help bail them out, according to minutes from previously undisclosed meetings, cited by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).