News about Najib Razak

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 6): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, who is known to have facilitated transfers to and from AmBank accounts of Datuk Seri Najib Razak between year 2011 and 2015, may have skipped the former prime minister’s approval in one of those transfers, the High Court was told yesterday.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 5): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, his wife, his brother and two others have applied to strike out the RM52.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 5): The trial of Datuk Seri Najib Razak involving the alleged siphoning of RM42 million from SRC International Sdn Bhd into his account enters its 47th day today, with the defence to continue its cross-examination of former AmBank relationship manager Joanna Yu Ging Ping.

PUTRAJAYA (Aug 5): The Court of Appeal today dismissed an application by both the prosecution and defence to postpone Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) or the Tanore trial, which is scheduled to begin on Aug 19.

  KUALA LUMPUR (July 29): Former AmBank relationship manager Joanna Yu, the 54th prosecution witness in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's SRC International Sdn Bhd trial, agreed that most of the instructions relating to the former premier's bank accounts were issued by fugitive financier Low Taek Jho.

  KUALA LUMPUR (July 29): Datuk Seri Najib Razak's affirmed affidavit from another trial showed that the former premier knew that the RM42 million in his AmBank accounts came from SRC International Sdn Bhd as early as February 2016, contradicting his defence that he did not know the money came from the former 1Malaysia Development Bhd unit.

  KUALA LUMPUR (July 29) Former AmBank relationship liaison manager Joanna Yu Ging Ping will continue to be cross-examined by Datuk Seri Najib Razak's lawyers today following a bomb scare last Thursday (July 25).

  KUALA LUMPUR (July 25) After the adjournment granted by the High Court yesterday following the ailment suffered by lawyers Harvinderjit Singh and Farhan Read, Datuk Seri Najib Razak's SRC International Sdn Bhd trial is expected to continue today.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Former AmBank Bhd relationship manager Joanna Yu Ging Ping, who denied yesterday that she was a “rogue banker” who acted in concert with fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho or Jho Low, told the High Court yesterday that she only took instructions from former SRC International Sdn Bhd chief executive officer and managing director Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil, who is the mandate holder of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s  accounts with the bank.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 22): Former AmBank relationship manager Joanna Yu Ging Ping told the High Court here today that former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's current accounts at the bank were often in overdraft, which led her to contact former SRC International Sdn Bhd managing director Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil — the mandate holder for the accounts — to resolve the issue.