Najib Razak

Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak Jawi محمد نجيب بن عبد الرزاق Malay pronunciation muhammad nadʒɪb born 23 July 1953 is a Malaysian politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2009 to 2018 In 2020 he was convicted of corruption in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal one of the largest moneylaundering and embezzlement scandals in history He is the son of former prime minister Abdul Razak Hussein Najib Razak was the chairman of the Barisan Nasional BN coalition from April 2009 to May 2018 and the president of the United Malays National Organisation UMNO from November 2008 to May 2018 which had maintained control of Malaysias government with a parliamentary majority for more than sixty years until the coalitions defeat in the 2018 general election