News about Terengganu Investment Authority

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 21): Acme Time Ltd, a firm wholly-owned by fugitive financier Low Taek Jho (Jho Low), obtained close to US$126 million in the Islamic Medium Term Note (IMTN) bond flip for the Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) in 2009, the High Court was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 21): Former Auditor General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang agreed to remove a portion of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report that mentioned a meeting between Datuk Seri Najib Razak and then-Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 7): Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) CEO Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi concedes before the High Court today that the beleaguered state-owned fund was not the ‘baby’ of Datuk Seri Najib Razak as its inception was not mooted by the former prime minister.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 7): Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi, former CEO of Terengganu Investment Authority Bhd (TIA) and then 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), agreed with the defence’s suggestion that he does not blame former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak for trusting fugitive financier Low Taek Jho and Casey Tang Keng Chee, which was former 1MDB executive director of business development.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 26): Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s senior counsel said that the suspension of the RM5 billion Islamic medium term notes (IMTN) issuance would have negatively impacted Malaysia’s ratings, which was why the former premier had decided to go on with the issuance.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 25): Former Terengganu Investment Authority Bhd (TIA) and 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officer Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi (pictured) said 1MDB was exempted from being audited by the National Audit Department, as it presented a political risk to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

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 18): The Terengganu state government wanted to be out of Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) immediately after a boardroom tussle in the state fund, lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (pictured) claimed in the High Court today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 18): Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officer (CEO) Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi was the one who suggested to Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak to take over the Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) from Terengganu Menteri Besar Inc (MB Inc) to form 1MDB, the High Court heard yesterday.

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.