A brazen kleptocrat has gone to jail in Malaysia. He must stay there
Najib Razak’s comeuppance strengthens the rule of law, but could still be undone
It was a case to make kleptocrats blush. Some $4.5bn of public funds were stolen—more than the entire annual revenue of almost half the world’s governments. Much of the money was squandered on high living: a superyacht, gambling sprees, a $23m diamond necklace. Some was even spent making a film about financial fraud, “The Wolf of Wall Street”, as if to taunt the investigators trying to track the stolen funds around the world.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Impunity at bay”
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