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Teh said more brands will be announced soon, including a new-to-market anchor tenant.

Moving forward, Eco World Development said the future revenue attributable to the group amounted to RM5.86 billion as at end-August, which would be translated to profit within the next three years.

The resignation, effective yesterday, is “due to his unsuccessful efforts in assisting Country Heights and its group of companies in restructuring debts after exhausting all avenues with local financial institutions”, the group said in a filing with Bursa Malaysia.

Najib's then-special officer Datuk Wan Ahmad Shihab Wan Ismail was appointed to the company's board on May 22, 2012.

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.

It was reported that he also faces 33 counts of bribery at the Shah Alam Sessions Court amounting to RM42.7 million for receiving funds from Ultra Kirana. He had claimed trial to all the charges at the Kuala Lumpur and Shah Alam Courts.

“He (Najib) is about the same age as I am. I have also endured having to sit on the wooden bench for two hours [in a separate case]. At our age, we do not have much flesh [on our buttocks].”

Rosli testified that while Morais did not participate in the investigation of SRC, he is not sure whether the slain civil servant was involved in the graft-buster's 1MDB probe.