#KiniNews: Najib loses final SRC appeal, begins 12-year jail term

[KiniNews] The Federal Court has upheld the SRC conviction and sentencing against former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak and ordered for him to serve his 12-year jail term from today.

Najib will also have to pay a RM210 million fine in default of another five years imprisonment.

The five-person apex court bench chaired by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat this afternoon unanimously dismissed the former prime minister’s appeal to quash his conviction over seven criminal charges as well as the sentencing.

The other Federal Court bench members were Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim and senior judges P Nallini, Mary Lim Thiam Suan, and Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah.

Tengku Maimun said the bench agreed that the trial judge correctly found that Najib failed to raise reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case, and that the sentencing is not manifestly excessive.

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