Najib's grip over 1MDB tightened six months after becoming PM
Rafidah said Najib signed a letter in his capacity as finance minister saying that TIA's sole shareholder, the MoF Inc, has passed a resolution for TIA's name to be changed to 1MDB.
Rafidah said Najib signed a letter in his capacity as finance minister saying that TIA's sole shareholder, the MoF Inc, has passed a resolution for TIA's name to be changed to 1MDB.
This was the view of Najib's former political secretary Datuk Wong Nai Chee, 50, who was called as the fifth prosecution witness in the trial of the former premier's alleged involvement in money laundering and abuse of power in relation to funds from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), otherwise known as the 1MDB-Tanore trial.
Noorhaina Hirawani Mohd Noor, who was formerly seconded to the Prime Minister’s Department from sometime in 2013 till Aug 2014, said she helped set up Orb Solutions Sdn Bhd to serve as a digital agency for Najib to manage his personal online communications and assets, such as his personal websites, social media, and any other activities that are considered online-to-offline conducted from time to time.
The prosecution will establish facts which will give rise to an irresistible inference that Jho Low and the accused (Najib) acted as one at all material times.
"Our defence is pretty identical [with the SRC trial], that my client has been misled."
Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram: After the 1MDB scandal broke in early July 2015, the accused [Najib] with his mirror image Jho Low took steps to cover his tracks. Sham documents were produced to pretend a donation from an Arab Prince. Among these were letters and four cheques each for a sum of US$25 million purportedly written out by a person said to be the Arab donor.”
"[It] is to carry out existing commitments that were already made previously," said Lim.
Altantuya's family, led by her father Shaariibuu Setev, filed the RM100 million civil suit over her death in 2007, after she was murdered in October 2006.
However, defence lead counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah requested that the trial to be postponed until Sept 3 this year.
"The net negative revenue of the previous year corresponding quarter was due to cancellations of certain sale and purchase agreements during the period and the effects of MFRS 15."