'What's to be ashamed of': Najib back on the stump despite guilty verdict

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Convicted of corruption less than a month ago and sentenced to 12 years in jail, former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak was back campaigning for a party candidate over the weekend in a by-election for a state assembly seat. Out on bail, Najib is waiting for his appeal date to be set, while standing accused in two other trials and waiting for two more to begin - mostly linked to the looting of billions of dollars from defunct sovereign fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). Despite that, his party - Umno - and its ethnic Chinese and Indian party allies invited Najib to be their star campaigner for a by-election this month in Slim district, about 90 minutes north of Kuala Lumpur. Najib was voted out of office in 2018 amid outrage over the 1MDB scandal. But since then, he has undergone a public relations makeover to shed his image as a blue-blooded member of the elite and broaden h…