News about trial

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 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 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.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): Prosecution witness Datuk Amhari Effendi Nazaruddin admitted at the High Court today during the 1Malaysia Development Bhd-Tanore (1MDB-Tanore) trial that he had in 2010, obtained a US$200,000 (about RM839,000) loan from Low Taek Jho to buy a RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 4): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho explained the formation of Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) to former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak's aide by scribbling on a whiteboard in his apartment kitchen here.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 3): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, who has been described as Datuk Seri Najib Razak's close aide, was capable of influencing government bodies and international banks to conduct actions that fit his purpose.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 3): Setia Precast Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of S P Setia Bhd, today received the highest-in-the-country Industrialised Building System (IBS) score of 93.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 29): Six months after Datuk Seri Najib Razak was appointed Prime Minister in 2009, a new article was added to Terengganu Investment Authority Bhd's (TIA) articles of association to grant him significant control over the company, which eventually became 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).