Wife of Malaysia’s jailed ex-PM handed 10 years in prison for bribery
by Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent an from World news | The Guardian on (#634P2)
Rosmah Mansor convicted of receiving over 1m to help a firm get a schools business contract
The wife of the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for soliciting and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts, one week after her husband was sent to prison for corruption linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.
Rosmah Mansor, 70, had pleaded not guilty to three charges of soliciting bribes and receiving 6.5m ringgit (1.3m) in exchange for helping a company secure a contract to provide solar power to schools.
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