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The pardon will allow Najib Razak to be released from a 12-year jail sentence for graft that he started serving this week. PHOTO: EPA-EFE. Updated.

Dr Mahathir was already Malaysia's longest-serving prime minister when he first retired in 2003 after 22 years at the helm. It is true as the English saying goes that justice delayed is justice denied." Delaying the trials will result in justice being neglected," he said. [whose historic election victory in 2018 triggered Najib's downfall,](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-election-how-power-changed-hands-in-24-hours-from-najib-to-mahathir) said delays in various trials related to the multibillion-dollar corruption scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) would result in justice being denied. Over US$1 billion was traced to Najib's bank accounts. On Tuesday, the country's top court [rejected his final appeal and upheld his 12-year jail sentence and a RM210 million (S$65.6 million) ](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-ex-pm-najib-to-serve-jail-sentence-after-failing-to-overturn-final-1mdb-appeal)fine for illegally receiving RM42 million from a unit of 1MDB.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 25 — Malaysia's veteran politician Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday that the disgraced former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib ...

Reinstalled as prime minister, Dr Mahathir reopened probes into 1MDB that led to Najib facing a total of 42 charges. Dr Mahathir was already Malaysia’s longest serving prime minister when he first retired in 2003 after 22 years at the helm. Dr Mahathir subsequently resigned amid political turmoil as his alliance fell apart. Over US$1 billion was traced to Najib’s bank accounts. Having been sent to jail on Tuesday after losing his final appeal in one of the smaller cases related to the siphoning off of money from the state fund he co-founded in 2009, Najib was back in court on Thursday for a hearing in the largest case. He was brought from the Kajang prison complex southeast of the capital to the Kuala Lumpur high court in a black police car under heavy security and was taken to the courtroom through a private entrance.

Malaysia's veteran politician Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday that the disgraced former premier Najib Razak, who he helped bring down, was likely to ...

Mahathir was already Malaysia's longest serving prime minister when he first retired in 2003 after 22 years at the helm. Over $1 billion was traced to Najib's bank accounts. He was brought from the Kajang prison complex southeast of the capital to the Kuala Lumpur high court in a black police car under heavy security and was taken to the courtroom through a private entrance. Having been sent to jail on Tuesday after losing his final appeal in one of the smaller cases related to the siphoning off of money from the state fund he co-founded in 2009, Najib was back in court on Thursday for a hearing in the largest case. The palace of King Al-Sultan Abdullah, which received a petition for a pardon from Najib loyalists a day earlier, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Mahathir's remark. On Tuesday, the country's top court rejected his final appeal and upheld his 12-year jail sentence and a 210 million ringgit ($46.88 million) fine for illegally receiving $10 million from a unit of 1MDB.

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad believes that jailed ex-premier Najib Abdul Razak is “highly likely” to receive a pardon at some point in the ...