Malaysia’s finance minister on Thursday confirmed reports that funds from deals with the central bank and sovereign wealth fund Khazanah were used by the previous government to meet some liabilities of troubled state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). Malaysia’s government debt exceeds 1 trillion ringgit ($252 billion), inflated by borrowingby a state investment company that’s at the center of a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal, according to newly installed finance minister Lim Guan Eng. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was quizzed for more than six hours Thursday by anti-graft investigators looking into alleged theft and money laundering at 1MDB that accumulated billions of dollars in debt.