Fall from grace: On Malaysian ex-PM Najib Razak

For over four years, Najib Razak was among the most powerful voices of Malaysian politics. The child of a previous Prime Minister, a legislator for decades and an all-powerful Prime Minister for 9 years, he suffered the biggest setback in his eventful profession on Tuesday when a trial court discovered him guilty on 7 corruption charges in connection with the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) monetary scams. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $50 million. Billions of dollars were apparently taken from the 1MDB– a mutual fund he launched in 2009 when Prime Minister– by workers of the fund or of the government. The money was traced by district attorneys to a mega-yacht, a Picasso painting