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Comment: Malaysia's Najib Razak is behind bars; his wife has been convicted. Now what?

By Jet Damazo-Santos
  • 06 Sep 2022 09:13
  • 06 Sep 2022 09:13
“It’s a good sign. I’m optimistic,” the Malaysian defense lawyer handling the country’s first ever corporate liability case told MLex in the days following the historic ruling that sent former prime minister Najib Razak to jail.
Chong Ki Keong’s optimism relates to expectations that Malaysia’s Federal Court’s rejection of Najib’s

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Jet Damazo-Santos

Correspondent, Jakarta


Jet Damazo-Santos has been covering antitrust, data protection and other compliance issues in key jurisdictions in Southeast Asia for MLex full time since 2018. She has almost two decades of journalism experience in the Philippines and Indonesia, where she was the associate editor for the Jakarta Globe and the Jakarta bureau chief for Rappler Indonesia prior to joining MLex. She holds a master's degree in Applied Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific.

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