The scale of the 1MDB scandal involving former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak was so vast that it made “Attila the Hun look like a choirboy by comparison”, according to then-High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah.

Sequerah, who is now a Federal Court judge, made the observation in his 810-page grounds of judgment released today.

He also described what has been portrayed both locally and internationally as one of the world's largest cases of kleptocracy...