News by Ahmad Naqib Idris

Sessions Court Judge Rozina Ayob had set Sept 20 for the next case management, which prompted senior deputy public prosecutor (DPP) Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram to ask for dates for the hearing to commence.

"I left because after working with Najib, the issues involving 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Bhd) and other things I do not want to mention here, I know his character. There was no point for me to continue."

Synergy Promenade had filed the suit in the High Court on July 9, with the company claiming that it had signed an agreement with FIC on June 2, 2014, to be appointed master developer for a mixed development on 24 parcels of land, measuring 20.66 acres in total, owned by Felda and situated along Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur.

Ahmad Husni said 1MDB and SRC matters were off limits to him.

"I will need to take full instruction from my client. [The witness'] testimony is very much like an angry man against my client. I would like to know the true circumstances of what he said."

FGV filed a lawsuit against Mohd Emir and Isa Samad relating to the purchase of a luxury condominium at Troika, KLCC, which the group claimed was bought at an inflated price by the two.

This was to reverse transactions worth RM32 million.

This marks the seventh day for Yu — the 54th prosecution witness in the trial — in the witness stand, after a long and aggressive round of questioning by Najib's lawyer Harvinderjit Singh over the past week. 

Tengku Adnan, who is also known as Ku Nan, is charged in his capacity as Federal Territories Minister in 2016 to have accepted for himself RM2 million from Aset Kayamas Sdn Bhd managing director Tan Sri Chai Kin Kong via a Hong Leong Islamic Bank cheque belonging to Aset Kayamas.

Former AmBank relationship manager Joanna Yu Ging Ping confirmed yesterday that the RM27 million originated from a RM35 million transfer from the accounts of SRC to Putra Perdana Construction Sdn Bhd (PPC).