KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 8 — The prosecution today amended its initial criminal and corruption charges against former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak at the High Court here.

The amended criminal breach of trust and power abuse charges were then read out afresh to Najib before High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali.

Najib maintained his plea of not guilty to all four counts.

The 65-year-old was charged on July 4 with three counts of criminal breach of trust (CBT) and one count of power abuse in relation to RM42 million funds said to belong to former 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) unit SRC International Sdn Bhd.

A comparison of the original and amended CBT charges showed that the mention of Najib as a "public servant” has been taken out for all three counts of criminal breach of trust.

The first count involves RM27 million, while the second and third counts of criminal breach of trust involved RM5 million and RM10 million respectively.

The three counts of CBT taken together involve sums amounting to RM42 million.

As for the sole charge of abusing his position for self-gratification of RM42 million in the course of a government decision, a minor change amended mention of Najib’s "participation or involvement in” to just "involvement in” a decision on behalf of the government to give government guarantee for RM4 billion of loans from civil servants' pension fund Retirement Fund Incorporated (KWAP) to SRC International.

Najib today also claimed trial to three new charges of money-laundering of a sum totaling RM42 million.

The High Court has yet to fix trial dates for the three criminal cases of CBT, power abuse, and money-laundering that will be heard together.