News about 1MDB

KUALA LUMPUR (April 26): A lawyer representing Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan, who lodged police reports in Malaysia, the UK, France and Switzerland in relation to 1Malaysia Development Bhd fiasco, and was subsequently detained by the authorities under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma), told the court that his client owed him RM795,000.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 23): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s (pictured) lawyer Tania Scivetti said today the prosecution’s asset forfeiture action against Najib must be dismissed because there is no evidence that the seized properties from his residence along Jalan Langgak Duta were linked to alleged 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-related money in his AmBank accounts.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 23): The interim injunction order stopping former UMNO Supreme Council member Datuk Seri Lokman Noor Adam (pictured) from issuing defamatory statements against 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) lawyer Rosli Dahlan was yesterday extended to June 3.

PUTRAJAYA (April 20): The defence's claim that signatures of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) were forged in several documents related to 1Malaysia Development Bhd's (1MDB) former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd was an afterthought as the issue was never raised during investigations and the prosecution's case, the prosecution argued today.

PUTRAJAYA (April 19): SRC International Sdn Bhd only reported to the Finance Minister according to the command structure of the former subsidiary of 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) then.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): The High Court has fixed May 31 to hear former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak's application to compel the prosecution to supply documents in relation to his discovery application on Goldman Sachs-related matters and items in his 1Malaysia Development Bhd-Tanore trial.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 15): US senators Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith have urged the Department of Labor to reconsider plans to exempt The Goldman Sachs Group Inc from penalties for its role in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal that would have forfeited Goldman's rights to manage US workers’ retirement assets, according to a report by Pensions & Investments, which cited the senators' letter to the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA).

KUALA LUMPUR (April 9): DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang (pictured) told the High Court today that he did not agree with the Federal Court's 2017 decision to dismiss three appeals for leave to challenge then Attorney-General (AG) Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali’s decision to close an investigation related to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s alleged wrongdoing in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) issue.

PUTRAJAYA (April 9) : A Court of Appeal judge yesterday questioned Datuk Seri Najib Razak's lawyer on the status of the RM4 billion loan granted by Retirement Fund Inc (KWAP) to SRC International Sdn Bhd in 2011 and 2012, and was told "no one knows".

KUALA LUMPUR (April 7): Former attorney-general (AG) Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali (pictured) was moved to tears in the High Court here today while testifying in his defamation suit against veteran politician Lim Kit Siang whose article, Mohamed Apandi claimed, implied that the ex-AG’s abetted the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal.