News by Paw Ai Chin

Defence counsel Harvinderjit Singh, during his cross-examination of former KWAP chief executive officer Datuk Azian Mohd Noh, suggested that none of the personnel in the civil servants' retirement fund were pressured to approve the first RM2 billion loan to SRC.

“He was very upset, and I apologised to him." 

However, Justice Collin ordered Hasanah, who was present in the court today, to attend all future case management with at least one of her bailer or surety.

"There, Azlin gave me a letter which was signed by SRC director Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil dated June 3, 2011 [addressed] to Najib seeking for a loan of RM3.95 billion."

To be decided purely on points of law and without going for a full trial.

The case was called for mention today, and deputy public prosecutor Mohamad Firdaous Mohamed Idris told High Court Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali that the prosecution had delivered all the related documents to the defence pursuant to Section 51(A) of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Justice Zaini said Rosmah should not be afraid that her defence will be affected or that the information she gives would be used against her in respect of these charges.

Lawyer David Mathews, acting for Muhammad Shafee, said that Thomas wanted to cite Muhammad Shafee for contempt by gaining ex-parte leave, so he ensured that the judge hearing the application would not know the contents of the exonerating letter and statements made by the lawyer on Aug 8 last year. Mathews was giving reasons why the ex-parte order issued by the High Court on March 1 to commit Muhammad Shafee to prison for contempt should be set aside.

1MDB has named Tan Jiak Chye, 64, as the sole defendant in the suit filed on April 30

He repeated this three times during questioning by deputy public prosecutor Muhammad Saifuddin Hashim Musaimi about payments of RM27 million and RM5 million on Dec 26, 2014 and a payment of RM10 million made on Feb 10, 2015.