Shahrol told to leave the country to avoid PAC hearing

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officer (CEO) Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi told the High Court here that he had meetings with former Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Datuk Seri Hasan Arifin after attending a PAC hearing in 2015 to be briefed on the contents of the report that was to be tabled in Parliament.

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Najib gave Jho Low mandate to arrange TIA and 1MDB operations — ex-CEO Shahrol

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 23): Former Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) and later its federalised incarnation 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officer (CEO) Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi described former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak as being so close with fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho — better known as Jho Low — that he gave the Penang-born financier the mandate to plan and arrange the operations of the two entities.

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1MDB-Tanore Trial Day 10: New prosecution witness may be called

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 19): The 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) or Tanore trial involving Datuj Seri Najib Razak at the High Court here may see a new prosecution witness being called today, if the defence finishes the cross examination of Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin and the prosecution concludes his re-examination.

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ECRL, pipeline projects offered to China to bail out 1MDB

  KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): In an attempt to extricate and salvage 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) from the mounting debts that financier Low Taek Jho or Jho Low and his cohorts had plunged the company into, former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak assembled in astonishing quick time, a handful of mega infrastructure projects that Malaysia could offer to China’s state-owned enterprises.

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