Court postpones ex-PM Najib’s trial

A court on Monday postponed the corruption trial of former prime minister Najib Razak over charges related to a multibilliondollar scandal at state fund 1MDB pending an appeal, his lawyer said. Najib has pleaded not guilty to ten charges of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of power and his trial was originally set to begin on Tuesday. His lawyers, however, filed an application last week to stay the trial pending an appeal over a lower court’s ruling to transfer some of the charges to the Kuala Lumpur High Court, media reported. No new date for the trial or the appeal has been set, the lawyer said.