The talk of the town before was that if he gets charges, he will get a royal pardon by an umno gahmen like the way Anwar got pardoned. So does not matter if he is charged or not
This is why Jib Kor is still massively popular with the folks of Matland. When he was the PM, his modus operandi was to enticed them with money. Money would trickle down down from the top to the bottom of the community. UMNO warlords and their major partners would makan big chunk of the amount allocated to their constituencies before handing out scraps to the rural folks like the village chiefs would be glad to gobble up whatever scraps that their political masters have given to them.