News about Tanore

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 24): The morning session of Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-Tanore trial took an interesting turn as Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah cited two judgements by Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram at the Federal Court and Court of Appeal, during an oral application to dispute former 1MDB chief Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi's witness statement as hearsay.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 24): The Ministry of Finance (MoF) was said to have been pressured into issuing the government guarantee for the RM5 billion Islamic medium term notes (IMTN), in order to meet a tight one-month deadline set by fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, according to the testimony by Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi, the ninth prosecution witness in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-Tanore trial, at the High Court yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 20): Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin, a former aide of Datuk Seri Najib Razak, said his ex-boss was still powerful and influential enough to create “instability” in his livelihood during his testimony at the High Court yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 20): Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin told the High Court that he received “berpuluh ribu” (tens of thousands) in cash from former premier Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak after he embarked on “secret missions” to Abu Dhabi and China over 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) matters in 2016.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 20): Datuk Seri Najib Razak's former aide Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin (pictured left) has implied that the former Prime Minister may have misled the Dewan Rakyat when he said that Low Taek Jho has never worked for 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 19): Datuk Seri Najib Razak's former aide Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin could be involved in the conspiracy to embezzle 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) monies and transfer them into a fake entity in 2012 and 2014, the High Court was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 19): Prominent economist Professor Dr Jomo Kwame Sundaram has urged the federal government to reopen the question of cancelling the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) mega infrastructure project, following 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-Tanore trial key witness Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin's statements that the project was mooted to bail 1MDB out.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 17): Datuk Amhari Effendi Nazaruddin, one of the key prosecution witnesses in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd-Tanore (1MDB-Tanore) trial involving former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak, initially disagreed that the Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) was mooted by Terengganu's ruler Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin's when he was the 13th Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 11): Datuk Seri Najib Razak's trial on abuse of power and money laundering involving funds from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB-Tanore trial) has been postponed to next Tuesday as the former prime minister is on two days' medical leave due to another bout of conjunctivitis.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 10): Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin has denied any knowledge that there were concerns raised in 2009 that fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, has been misrepresenting himself as an advisor of then Yang Di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin.