1MDB TRIAL | Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak rubbished the prosecution's claim today that he tried to get China to settle the debts of Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB and its former subsidiary SRC International.

Najib, who was also a former finance minister, told the High Court in Putrajaya that he sent his then-special officer Amhari Efendi Nazarudin for a two-day visit to China in June 2016 to check whether...