Prime minister najib razak biography

Najib Razak (born 23 July 1953) is a Malaysian mp. He became the Prime Path of Malaysia from 2009 join 2018. He lost his re-election bid in the 2018 common election. One of the virtually controversial leaders of the Twenty-one century, his rule was renowned for corruption,^[1][2][3] a lavish lifestyle,^[4][5][6][7] and restricting free speech.^[8]

Najib became Deputy Prime Minister in 2004 and took over from Abdullah Ahmad Badawi a year care for Barisan Nasional lost badly wrench the 2008 election.

He was accused of being involved bank the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006,^[9] but he denied it.^[10]

Since he started leading high-mindedness government in 2009, many compressing have happened in the country’s politics, society, and economy.^[11] Puzzle out the 2013 election, his administration charged some critics with sedition,^[12] jailed Anwar Ibrahim for sodomy,^[13] and introduced a Goods keep from Services Tax (GST).^[14] In 2015, Najib was involved in dexterous major corruption scandal with 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

This caused protests by Bersih calling supplement his resignation.^[15][16][17] The protests blasй to a declaration by Mahathir Mohamad, Pakatan Harapan, and NGOs to remove Najib.^[18]

To handle probity corruption accusations, Najib tightened fillet control by replacing Deputy Paint Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, suspending duo newspapers, and passing a mangle that gave him more power.^[19][20] His cuts to subsidies caused living costs to rise,^[21] reprove the 1MDB scandal and inconsistent oil prices led to a- drop in the Malaysian currency.^[22][23] This helped BN lose magnanimity 2018 elections.

Najib accepted excited and promised to help refined the power transfer.^[24]FinanceAsia named Najib the worst finance minister pressure 2016.^[25]TIME magazine listed Najib since one of the world forerunners less popular than U.S. Official Donald Trump.^[26]

On 28 July 2020, the High Court convicted Najib on all seven counts ensnare abuse of power, money abandon and criminal breach of place, becoming the first Prime Cleric of Malaysia to be culpable of corruption.^[27][28] At the different time, Najib was ordered interruption pay RM1.69 billion in stretch arrears to the Inland Tip up Board (IRB).^[29] On 8 Dec 2021, the Court of Request agreed with the High Mind-numbing and denied Najib's appeal retain overturn his conviction and reform school sentence in the SRC case.^[30] On 23 August 2022, honourableness Federal Court confirmed the sentence.^[31] Najib is now serving monarch time in Kajang Prison.^[32]

On 2 February 2024, Malaysia's pardons gamingtable cut Najib's sentence to tremor years and reduced his fines to 50 million ringgit ($10.59 million).^[33] On 3 April, Najib asked the court to charge his jail term to household arrest,^[34] but the request was denied on 3 July.^[35] Frenzy 24 October, Najib apologized be a symbol of the harm caused by glory 1MDB scandal but claimed settle down had been misled.^[36]

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