News about 1MDB

KUALA LUMPUR (March 13): The 1MDB-Tanore trial is adjourned, pending the COVID-19 test results of lead defence lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who today showed the court documentary evidence that he was indeed ordered to go into self-quarantine.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 12): The 1MDB-Tanore trial, which was scheduled to start today after a long hiatus since November, has now been postponed as its lead defence counsel was in proximity to a person who is currently being tested for the COVID-19 virus.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 12): Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) CEO Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi will return as the ninth prosecution witness today in the 1MDB-Tanore trial against former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, after the trial took a break since November last year.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 12): Sessions Court judge Azman Ahmad will hear the money laundering case involving Datuk Seri Najib Razak's stepson Riza Shahriz Abdul Aziz and 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), replacing Sessions Court judge Rozina Ayob, who recused herself last month.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 12): The High Court was yesterday informed that the prosecution is considering a representation relating to asset forfeiture made by OBYU Holdings Sdn Bhd, the owner of several condos at Pavilion Residences, where more than RM680 million worth of valuable items said to belong to Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, were kept and are subject to forfeiture.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 11): The High Court today set April 21 as the deadline to submit written submissions in the SRC International Sdn Bhd trial, after the defence closed its case.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 10): Former head of the money laundering unit in the Attorney General’s Chambers Tan Sri Dzulkifli Ahmad told the High Court that when former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief commissioner Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed recommended to the task force in July 2015 that Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak be charged, the investigation papers had yet to be completed.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 10): Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's former principal private secretary Tan Sri Shukry Salleh revealed today that he saw the former prime minister holding papers containing charts of a purported money trail into Najib's account back in February 2016.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 10): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak’s lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah has accused the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) of illegally wiretapping his client for almost a year.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 9): Former attorney-general Tan Sri Apandi Ali today stood by his statements in January 2016 that former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had not committed any criminal offence in relation to the SRC International Sdn Bhd and 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandals.