Najib Abdul Razak has denied meeting fugitive businessperson Jho Low as investigators closed in on the latter over the 1MDB scandal.

When the question was posed to him at the Parliament building this afternoon, the former premier responded with a single word: “No!”

According to the Wall Street Journal, which quoted an unnamed former Malaysian official, Najib met Jho Low at the sidelines of the Belt and Road forum in Beijing in May 2017...