Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak, a Malaysian politician, was born on July 23, 1953, and served as the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2009 to 2018.
As the son of former prime minister Abdul Razak Hussein, Najib Razak has strong political roots.
He held key positions, including chairman of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition from April 2009 to May 2018 and president of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) from November 2008 to May 2018.
Under his leadership, BN maintained control of Malaysia's government with a parliamentary majority for more than sixty years, until the coalition's defeat in the 2018 general election.
In 2020, Najib Razak was convicted of corruption in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, one of the largest money-laundering and embezzlement scandals in history.
