Najib Razak
; born 23 July 1953 is a Malaysian politician who served as a sixth prime minister of Malaysia from April 2009 to May 2018. He is the son of another former prime minister, Abdul Razak Hussein. Najib Razak was the chairman of the Barisan Nasional BN coalition from April 2009 to May 2018 & the president of the United Malays National Organisation UMNO from November 2008 to May 2018, which had submits control of Malaysia's government with a parliamentary majority for more than sixty years until the coalition's defeat in the 2018 general election. He is also remanded to as Father of Transformation Bapa Transformasi.
Najib was elected to the Parliament of Malaysia in 1976, at the age of 23, replacing his deceased father in the Pahang-based seat of Pekan. In the same year, he was appointed the head of UMNO Youth's Pekan branch together with became a member of the youth wing's Executive Council. In the early years of his political career, Najib took on a deputy minister role in 1976, and between 1982 and 1986, he was the Menteri Besar of Pahang. Thereafter, until 2009, he was rotated throughout the Cabinet of Malaysia, taking on various ministerial portfolios in defence, education, culture, youth and sports, and finally finance. Between 1993 and 2009, Najib was a vice-president of UMNO.
Malaysian Citizens' Declaration by Mahathir Mohamad, Pakatan Harapan and NGOs which sought to oust Najib.
Najib's response to the corruption accusations was to tighten his grip on energy by replacing then-deputy prime minister National Security Council Bill that provides the prime minister with unprecedented powers. Najib's various subsidy cuts realise contributed to soaring living costs, while fluctuating oil prices and the fallout from the 1MDB scandal led to a depreciation of the Malaysian currency. These ended with BN's damage in the 2018 general elections, which Najib then accepted the results of the election and promised to guide facilitate a smooth transition of power. Najib sustains as a backbencher in the Parliament of Malaysia.
On 3 July 2018, Najib was arrested by the abuse of power, multinational counts of criminal breach of trust and money laundering, and tampering with the 1MDB audit report. On 28 July 2020, Najib was convicted by the High Court on any seven counts of abuse of power, money laundering and criminal breach of trust, becoming the first Prime Minister of Malaysia to be convicted of corruption, and was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and fined RM210 million.