Najib, 65, will stand preliminary for criminal rupture of trust, tax evasion and influence manhandle connected to billions of dollars professedly plundered from sovereign riches subsidize 1MDB.
The previous pioneer, who is free on safeguard, has been hit with seven charges up until this point, including three for tax evasion stopped on Wednesday over cases he took 42 million ringgit ($10.3 million) from a previous unit of 1MDB.
These are notwithstanding the charges he confronted a month ago after he was first captured - three for criminal rupture of trust and a different tally that he manhandled his situation to take the cash.
Najib has denied every one of the charges.
Malaysia's new government, under Najib's 93-year-old previous coach Mahathir Mohamad, is examining the defilement charges including 1MDB - which was set up and administered by Najib - in a nervy extortion that crossed the globe.
High Court Judge Mohamad Nazlan Mohamad Ghazali set the preliminary dates from February 12-28 and from March 4-29.
State prosecutors said they hope to call around 50 witnesses.
Najib is confronting quite a while in a correctional facility if discovered liable - the illegal tax avoidance charges convey most extreme prison terms of 15 years each, while the other four charges convey sentences of 20 years each.
The tax evasion charges assert 42 million ringgit coming from illicit exercises was exchanged to Najib's financial balances between December 2014 and February 2015.
Every one of the charges identify with subsidize exchanges from SRC International, a vitality organization that was initially an auxiliary of 1MDB.
The aggregates included are only a small amount of the $681 million that was bafflingly exchanged to Najib's own financial balances quite a long while back, starting mayhem in Malaysia.
Najib, who has reliably denied any bad behavior, and his partners are blamed for utilizing the looted cash to purchase everything from US land to fine arts and an extravagance yacht that was as of late given over to Malaysia.
Najib's legal counselor Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said Wednesday that the toppled pioneer trusted the case was driven by governmental issues.
"I am certain of a reasonable preliminary for my customer, however my customer thinks this is a political indictment," Muhammad Shafee told columnists.
The US Department of Justice, which is looking to recuperate things supposedly purchased with stolen 1MDB trade out America, appraises that $4.5 billion altogether was plundered from the store.
Following Najib's race misfortune in May, police grabbed a huge trove of things - including costly purses and adornments - from properties connected to him with an expected estimation of up to $273 million.
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