KUALA LUMPUR: It was at first almost unthinkable for many Malaysians. So, Najib Razak finally went to jail. The former Malaysian prime minister lost his appeal with the Federal Court — Malaysia's supreme court — to overturn seven convictions on criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of power. The charges against Najib were in connection with the still unfolding 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) series of scandals, dubbed as one of the largest known kleptocratic dealings in the world. In 2020, the trial judge's opinion and the guilty verdict against Najib ran into more than a thousand pages, the longest in Malaysia's judicial history. The unanimous affirmation of the trial verdicts by the Court of Appeals a year later similarly ran into hundreds of pages. So, it did not come as a surprise that the five justices of the Federal Court, headed by the chief justice, unanimously affirmed the exhaustive findings of the lower courts.