News about trial

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 25): Former premier Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak paid himself RM120,000 per year as allowances for being the chairman and a member of the board of advisers (BOA) of 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the High Court was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 24): Former Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) chief executive officer Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi received RM70,000 from Low Taek Jho to speed up TIA's issuance of RM5 billion bonds in 2009, the High Court was told today.

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): Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd and Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) chief executive officer Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi testified that fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho — touted to be the mastermind of the whole 1MDB fiasco — was indeed close to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, based on his observations of their interactions.

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): The prosecution aims to show that former Federal Territories (FT) Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor had received RM1 million as an inducement to assist a company to secure approval from Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to increase the plot ratio for a development at Jalan Semarak here.

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.