KUALA LUMPUR — A court in Malaysia allowed corruption charges in one of several cases linked to the scandal-wracked 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) sovereign wealth fund against jailed ex-prime minister Najib Razak to be dropped, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
"The court correctly exercised its jurisdiction to discharge our client of the charges" in the case on payments of 6.6 billion ringgit ($1.48 billion) allegedly made to Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Co., lawyer Muhammad Farhan Muhammad Shafee told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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