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Najib Razak

b. 1953 · 20th century

Najib Razak is a Malaysian politician, son of Tun Abdul Razak, who was the sixth prime minister of Malaysia from 2009 to 2018. His government was engulfed by the 1MDB scandal, in which billions of dollars were taken from a state investment fund, and the Barisan Nasional lost power in 2018. He was convicted of corruption in 2020 and imprisoned in 2022.

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