KUALA LUMPUR - Lawyers for former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak sought on Monday to introduce fresh evidence for a re-trial, a final bid to overturn a 12-year jail term over a corruption case linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.
Malaysian law allows for a review of Federal Court decisions, but such applications are rarely successful. Lead prosecutor V. Sithambaram however described the defence's request as"flawed and self-serving", saying that the judge's employment record was publicly known before the trial and that his work at the bank was irrelevant to the charges facing Najib.In his main appeal, Najib has cited 94 grounds for why he should be acquitted, including that lower courts had erred in some of their findings, documents submitted before the hearing showed.
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