The judge who presided over Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1MDB trial said the scale of the fund’s plunder was so immense that it made Attila the Hun “look like a choirboy”.
In his 810-page grounds of judgment, Federal Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah described the 1MDB scandal as an unprecedented financial crime, noting it had been labelled the “largest episode of kleptocracy in the world”.
Najib was convicted in December 2025 on four counts of abuse of power and 21 counts of money laundering involving RM2.27 billion. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined RM11.38 billion, and is currently appealing the decision.
