Trick or Treat: Najib and His Merry Band Could Go Free

Former Malaysian PM and allies may never see the inside of a jail cell

With courts having granted passports to at least four of Malaysia’s most notorious lawbreakers, there is a growing sense that a whole bunch of crooks will escape prison either on some technicality or by royal pardon despite their alleged participation in the biggest financial scandal in Malaysian history and a long series of lesser but equally spectacul…