The courts have released judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah’s summary judgment today, ordering Najib Abdul Razak to enter his defence in the 1MDB case.

Among others, Sequerah ruled that Najib had a responsibility to take reasonable steps to ascertain whether the US$681 million deposited into his account - and later returned US$620 million - was from unlawful activities or otherwise.

“Under all the circumstances, I find that the accused was also ‘wilfully blind’ with regard to his failure to inquire into the origin of these funds when the circumstances were such that he ought to have done so...