News about corruption

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's legal team today proceeded with its application in the High Court for an expert witness to be brought in to verify documents bearing the former premier's signatures which were allegedly forged.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): The prosecution in the SRC International Sdn Bhd trial has questioned why the defence did not bring up the issue around the allegedly "forged" documents before the prosecution closed its case, following the defence's application to bring in a handwriting expert to verify Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's signatures on several documents.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): Sarawak Report editor Claire Rewcastle-Brown has filed an appeal against the High Court decision last month to allow an application by Terengganu's Sultanah Nur Zahirah not to testify in her defamation suit against Rewcastle-Brown and the publisher on her book about 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 16): Former National Audit Department (NAD) audit director Saadatul Nafisah Bashir Ahmad was grilled by Datuk Seri Najib Razak's lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah today over exactly how the department was coerced into excluding several paragraphs from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)'s audit report.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 13): The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Latheefa Koya will be called in by the police over the release of tapped phone calls involving former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador said today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 9): Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak admitted in court today that he was in direct contact with fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) “on some instances” to ensure cheques he had written from his personal accounts had gone through.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 9): The Cabinet was kept in the dark about the approval for the second and third government loans granted by Ministry of Finance (MoF) to SRC in 2016 and 2017, Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak testified today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 9): Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak testified in court today that it was his wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, and not him who had purchased RM3.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 9): Lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah is of the view that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had committed subjudice and contempt of court with their publicising of recordings that implicating high-ranking officials and former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 9): “I need that agreement to be sorted out quickly, Your Highness.