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Graft verdict for Malaysia ex-leader a test of rule of law

by Associated Press
| July 27, 2020 12:03 AM

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — After years of insisting on his innocence, former Malaysian leader Najib Razak learns his fate this week in his first corruption trial linked to one of the world’s biggest financial scandals — a verdict widely seen as a test for the rule of law five months after a new government took power.

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