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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 19): Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had lost trust in former Attorney General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, and when then deputy prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had raised the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) issue in cabinet, this may have led to both losing their posts.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 19): Former chief secretary to the government Tan Sri Ali Hamsa told the High Court today that then Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had expressed his dissatisfaction with the contents of the audit report on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) which was to be tabled before the Public Accounts Committee.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 19): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak and former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officer (CEO) Arul Kanda Kandasamy had their pleas taken again before the High Court here yesterday following amendments to the audit tampering charge.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 18): The High Court was told that there are no other claims, including from fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, on the US$126 million sales proceeds of superyacht Equanimity apart from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

  KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 18): Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi are claiming trial on the same day — a first in Malaysian history.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 16) : The defence stage of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's SRC International Sdn Bhd case will proceed as scheduled on Dec 3.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 15): The prosecution, and former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officer and president Arul Kanda Kandasamy, who is also the a co-accused in the audit tampering case, today objected to Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's application to postpone the trial, which is scheduled to begin on Monday (Nov 18).

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 14): Lawyers for Datuk Seri Najib Razak had yesterday filed a formal written application to the High Court to defer the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit tampering trial, which will begin next Monday (Nov 18), so they could prepare the former premier's defence for the SRC International Sdn Bhd trial, which will start on Dec 3.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 14): Amid reports that he has undergone plastic surgery to change his appearance, fugitive Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, has been sighted in Ahmedabat, India, earlier this month, according to Asia Times.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 13): The High Court here was told today that former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) had, between April 25, 2012 and June 19, 2013, issued six cheques to Umno Kedah that amounted to RM15 million, a portion of which is alleged to be linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and Tanore Finance Corp.