The actual wrongdoers behind the massive loss suffered by 1MDB were dropped from its civil action, claimed Najib Abdul Razak.

The former prime minister contended that due to him still being retained as one of the defendants targeted by the US$8 billion lawsuit, therefore the legal action amounted to an abuse of the court process.

He raised this in his four-page statement of defence against 1MDB’s civil suit against him and seven others over...