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Former 1MDB chief executive officer Mohd Hazem Abdul Rahman said this in the 1MDB-Tanore trial when questioned by defence lawyer Wan Aizuddin Wan Mohamad about the instructions Jho Low had given to Hazem via an email correspondence. Hazem said when such instructions were made, they would officially be referred to as instructions from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) instead of Jho Low himself.

It was revealed that by 2014, purported master conspirator Low Taek Jho had instructed Hazem to sell off the land for cash.

In a statement on its website today, the coalition said the justification provided by Health Minister Datuk Seri Adham Baba “does not sufficiently explain the rationale, science, evidence or even facts” behind the decision for the three-day quarantine.

It has received an LOA for an EPCC project in Kuching. 

The 19-member independent committee will advise the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on the date for ending the proclamation of emergency

Describing the amount as "gargantuan", the discovery follows the investigations conducted by the police's Commercial Crime Unit, that found the three tranches of payment made to the former premier's AmBank account whose last three digits are 9694.

The authorities have filed tax suits against two of the central characters in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal, Casey Tang Keng Chee and Jasmine Loo Ai Swan, for unpaid taxes which amount to RM9.1 million

A federal gazette signed by Minister of Health Datuk Seri Adham Baba, which will be effective today until Aug 1, states that cabinet ministers who are returning from any official overseas visit will need to be under observation for three days or undergo supervision until they can be released without endangering the public.

Although he could speak to Jho Low directly, former 1MDB chief executive officer Mohd Hazem Abdul Rahman said he could not raise his frustrations about the acquisitions through email as he feared for his job.

Shahrir's counsel Datuk Firoz Hussein Ahmad Jamaluddin said they are withdrawing the recusal application due to this transfer order, and asked for a case management date to be fixed for his client's application to transfer the case from the Sessions Court to the High Court.