KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak sought last month to draw a line under persistent accusations of large-scale corruption that have dogged his government -- but Swiss prosecutors had other ideas.
In an unusually blunt announcement, the Swiss attorney general said on Jan. 29 that up to $4 billion could have been stolen from 1Malaysia Development Bhd, or 1MDB, a heavily indebted state fund whose advisory board is chaired by the prime minister.
