Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak has shelved plans for an early general election this summer after the leaking of a mountain of documents dealing with the payment of over $180 million in bribes for the purchase of two French submarines when he was defence minister.
Even more damaging for Najib, who has yet to face the electorate since taking over as leader of the stumbling Barisan Nasional coalition government in 2009, is that the documents indicate the French giant shipbuilder, DCNS, paid $45 million for a classified Malaysian government document detailing its submarine requirements.
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