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KUALA LUMPUR (March 10): Former head of the money laundering unit in the Attorney General’s Chambers Tan Sri Dzulkifli Ahmad told the High Court that when former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief commissioner Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed recommended to the task force in July 2015 that Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak be charged, the investigation papers had yet to be completed.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 10): Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's former principal private secretary Tan Sri Shukry Salleh revealed today that he saw the former prime minister holding papers containing charts of a purported money trail into Najib's account back in February 2016.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 9): Former attorney-general Tan Sri Apandi Ali today stood by his statements in January 2016 that former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had not committed any criminal offence in relation to the SRC International Sdn Bhd and 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandals.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 9): Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) deputy director for corporate crime investigations, assistant commissioner (ACP) R Rajagopal has today testified that former MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed suggested charging former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak with offences related to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and its former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd in a 1MDB special task force meeting on July 4, 2015.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 4): An MACC officer investigating the RM2.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 4): The SRC International Sdn Bhd trial today, which is nearing the conclusion of the defence stage, will see MIC legal advisor Selva Mookiah take the witness stand.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 3): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) had in 2015 declared that he had nothing to do with former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak’s bank accounts.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 3): Former Putrajaya Perdana Bhd (PPB) group executive director Jerome Lee Tak Loong said he did not know who received two cash transfers totalling RM32 million paid from the company’s accounts in 2014.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 3): Eric Tan Kim Loong, a confidante of Low Taek Jho (Jho Low), claimed he does not know who the recipients of the infamous US$681 million (RM2.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 3): A Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigating officer testified in court today that during its 2015 probe into the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal, the commission accepted a pre-prepared witness statement from fugitive Eric Tan Kim Loong instead of questioning him.