Wife of Former Prime Minister,Rosmah Mansor 70 has been sentenced to ten years in prison for seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts.
Rosmah Mansor and her husband Najib Razak, have been the focus of multiple graft investigations since Najib’s surprise election defeat in 2018 when voters anger over a separate, multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal ended his nine years in power.
The judgement follows days after her husband was also jailed for corruption.“I must admit that I’m very sad with what happened today. Nobody saw me taking the money, nobody saw me counting the money but if that’s the conclusion, I leave it to God.”she lamented. 
Rosmah was ridiculed in Malaysia for her extravagant lifestyle and penchant for Hermes Birkin bags, and faced repeated questions over her influence in government matters and will have to pay a fine of 970 million ringgit ($216.45 million), a record amount in Malaysia’s history over three bribery charges, Kuala Lumpur High Court Judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan said, adding that the prosecution proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Rosmah had pleaded not guilty to three charges of soliciting and receiving bribes between 2016 and 2017 to help a company secure a 279 million dollars’ solar power supply project from Najib’s government.
