News about 1MDB

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): Sarawak Report editor Claire Rewcastle-Brown has filed an appeal against the High Court decision last month to allow an application by Terengganu's Sultanah Nur Zahirah not to testify in her defamation suit against Rewcastle-Brown and the publisher on her book about 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 17): The Kuala Lumpur High Court heard yesterday that former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officers Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi and Arul Kanda Kandasamy were both uncooperative and delayed giving information about the state investment arm to the National Audit Department (NAD).

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 17): Datuk Seri Najib Razak's defence team, led by senior counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (pictured), spent 45 minutes today at the High Court here trying to discredit the audio recording made by National Audit Department's (NAD) Nor Salwani Muhammad.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 16): Former National Audit Department (NAD) audit director Saadatul Nafisah Bashir Ahmad was grilled by Datuk Seri Najib Razak's lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah today over exactly how the department was coerced into excluding several paragraphs from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)'s audit report.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 14): The lawyer for co-accused Arul Kanda Kandasamy (pictured) in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report tampering case will not be cross-examining prosecution witnesses until his client is called to testify for the prosecution.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 14): Former National Audit Department (NAD) audit director Saadatul Nafisah Bashir Ahmad (pictured) told the court today that Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, who was then prime minister, stood to benefit from the amendments made to the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 14): Umno Supreme Council member Lokman Noor Adam today failed to set aside the contempt proceedings initiated by the prosecution in 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) case against him.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 14): The High Court has set Feb 5 for another mention of the government's RM27.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 13): The police is taking steps to confiscate dwellings worth millions in Malaysia from fugitive financier Low Taek Jho (pictured), better known as Jho Low, that were allegedly purchased with funds from scandal-ridden 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 13): The final version of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report in 2016 was not to be printed until former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had given his approval, a former audit director told the High Court today.