News by Hafiz Yatim

Yesterday, Najib as with the past three days of his defence, pinned the blame on Low Taek Jho aka Jho Low as he said he never gave authority to Jho Low to manage his AmBank accounts.

...and about RM3.28 million was spent with Swiss luxury jeweller De Grisogono in Sardinia, Italy. Najib said the jewelry were to be gifts, and it was his prerogative to spend the RM42 million that ended up in his accounts at his discretion, for the benefit of Malaysia.

"I cannot explain this. I am utterly shocked that the bank deals with Jho Low although the power was only given to [former SRC International Sdn Bhd managing director] Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil. I have never allowed Jho Low to deal with the bank over my banking accounts and I was not informed [about] this," said Najib.

Najib said he believes that Azlin may have been told about the additional monies from fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, who is better known as Jho Low.

Testifying in his defence on the seven charges for criminal breach of trust, abuse of power and money laundering, Najib said he wants the court to look at all the evidence, including those from himself, as a whole.

Vell Paari wants a date be fixed by the court to hold an inquiry into his father’s mental health condition and that Samy Vellu be brought before the court.

Datuk Hariharan Singh, the lawyer acting for Umno, also argued that the money claimed by the MACC has already been used up.

He was reading out his witness statement in the High Court yesterday, where he also refuted earlier testimonies saying that he would give directions to the board through SRC’s former chief executive officer and managing director Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil, who was the sole link between the two parties.

"I found that Jho Low was successful in collaborating with the Arabs and Khazanah Nasional Bhd in the Iskandar Development," said Najib. 

Najib said this when testifying on the witness stand in his SRC International Sdn Bhd trial to questions from his lawyer Wan Aizuddin Wan Mohammed.