1MDB trial vacated as Najib still recovering from eye surgery


KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The hearing of Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) case, which was scheduled to resume on Tuesday (May 25), has been vacated to Thursday (May 27) as the former premier has not recovered from an eye surgery he underwent last week.

Najib’s lead counsel, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah informed presiding Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah, when the proceeding started on Tuesday, that his client had yet to recover from the surgery.

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