KUALA LUMPUR, June 17 -- The US$681 million (or RM2.08 billion) that then-prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak received in his private bank account in 2013 was not "chicken feed" or a small amount, but he did not behave normally like how a reasonable man would, the High Court said.

In his 809-page judgment released yesterday, 1MDB trial judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah said evidence such as bank records and the money trail showed that the US$681 million was actually misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), also rejecting Najib's claim that it was an Arab donation.

"This was not chicken feed. The sums remitted were staggering in its enormity," the judge said of the US$681 million which passed through multiple bank a...