News about audit tampering

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 9): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report tampering trial is set to continue next week, but for one week only for now, as further dates will only be set next Thursday (Jan 16).

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 27): The attendance of fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, at a 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) board meeting on Sept 26, 2009 came into question when the then auditor-general (AG) found contradicting meeting minutes from the strategic investment fund.

PETALING JAYA (Nov 22): Malaysian netizens are hailing National Audit Department (NAD) officer Nor Salwani Muhammad as a hero after media coverage on the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit tampering trial at the Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday described how she recorded a meeting between 1MDB and government officials in 2016 and saved an original copy of the 1MDB audit report.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 22) : A government auditor confirmed yesterday that former 1Malaysia Development Bhd chief executive officer Arul Kanda Kandasamy had wanted a police report to be lodged over the existence of two conflicting 1MDB audit reports for 2014.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 21): Former Auditor-General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang found the process of auditing 1Malaysia Development Bhd to be more difficult than usual as the fund did not give its full cooperation by sharing the necessary documents required by the National Audit Department (NAD), he told the High Court today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 20): Even before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament was given the final draft of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report prepared by the National Audit Department (NAD), it was first submitted to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, NAD director (governance sector) Nor Salwani Muhammad testified today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 20): Former chief secretary to the government Tan Sri Ali Hamsa told the High Court today that following the Feb 24, 2016, coordination meeting he chaired, it was agreed that all the original 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit reports which were initially prepared by the National Audit Department would be shredded.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 20): The prosecution in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report tampering trial of Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak and former 1MDB CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy is now playing an audio recording of a coordination meeting on Feb 24, 2016, which was chaired by the then-chief secretary to the government, Tan Sri Ali Hamsa.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 19): Former Auditor-General (A-G) Tan Sri Ambrin Buang had agreed to omit Low Taek Jho's attendance in a 1Malaysia Development Board (1MDB) board meeting from an audit report on the troubled fund to prevent the Opposition from "manipulating" the matter, a witness testified today.

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.