The Malaysian Justice rejects the sentence review requested by former Prime Minister Najib Razak

March 31 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Federal Court of Malaysia has rejected this Friday the sentence review requested by former Prime Minister Najib Razak with a majority of four to one.

The 69-year-old former prime minister, who was sentenced to twelve years in prison in Kajang prison, had asked for acquittal or a new hearing, according to the BERNAMA agency.

At the beginning of January this year, he submitted a request to obtain his release before the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Najib entered prison last August after an appeals court confirmed the sentence against him after finding him guilty of crimes of money laundering and abuse of office by taking 42 million ringgit (about 9.2 million euros ) of SRC International, a subsidiary of 1MDB, a state fund created by himself.

The former prime minister, ousted by a coalition led by former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, has faced money-laundering accusations since The Wall Street Journal reported in 2015 that $681 million had been transferred to one of your personal accounts.