{"id":8086,"date":"2018-07-03T21:45:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2018-07-03T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:48:34","slug":"malaysia-ex-pm-najib-arrested-by-anti-corruption-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=8086","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Ex-PM Najib arrested by anti-corruption officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak has been arrested by anti-corruption authorities and is due to be charged on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Najib, who has long been plagued by allegations of corruption, has been accused of pocketing $700m (\u00a3517m) from state development fund 1MDB.<\/p>\n<p>Billions of dollars are unaccounted for from the fund, set up by Mr Najib.<\/p>\n<p>He has been under investigation since his shock election loss in May. Mr Najib denies any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>In a pre-recorded video posted on Twitter,\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NajibRazak\/status\/1014163646459465729\">he appealed to the public not to believe the reports<\/a>, saying that not all of the accusations were true. &#8220;I have not had a chance to defend myself,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by the 1MDB special task force, Mr Najib was arrested at 14:35 local time (06:35 GMT) at his house in relation to matters dealing with SRC, a subsidiary of 1MDB.<\/p>\n<p>He will be charged at 08:30 on Wednesday at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Raids in recent weeks have been carried out across properties linked to Mr Najib.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-44625007\">Police say they recovered $273m in luxury goods and cash from a raid in June,<\/a>\u00a0calling the seizure of valuables the biggest in Malaysian history.<\/p>\n<p>Jewellery accounted for the biggest portion of the seizure, with the most expensive item being a $1.6m diamond and gold necklace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak has&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8087,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions\/8087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}