KUALA LUMPUR, June 16 -- The judge who heard Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1MDB criminal trial described the scale of the fund's plunder as so colossal that it made Attila the Hun, a fifth-century ruler remembered for his conquests across Europe, look like a "choirboy".

According to The Edge, Federal Court judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah, who sat as the trial High Court judge, made the remark in his 810-page grounds of judgment released today.

"The scale of the plunder that took place (financially speaking, of course) made Attila the Hun look like a choirboy in comparison," Sequerah wrote.

The judge also noted that the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal had been described by the world and the press as the "largest episode of kleptocr...