1MDB audit tampering trial: Najib, Arul Kanda freed from charges


KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has acquitted and discharged both former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy in the 1MDB audit tampering trial on Friday (March 3).

Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan, who is now a Court of Appeal judge, said that the court has given its maximum evaluation at the end of the prosecution's case.

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