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KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 23): Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak denied that the former attorney-general (AG) Tan Sri Apandi Ali's decision to clear the ex-premier of wrongdoing in 2016 was wrong, as suggested by ad-hoc prosecutor Datuk V Sithambaram.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 23): Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak told the High Court here today he knew "as a fact" that businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) was the conduit between him and the Saudi Royal family, which was why he had no communications with them about their "donation" to him.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 23): Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak told the court today that he was not aware that the money he had been spending from one of his bank accounts were the funds transferred from SRC International Sdn Bhd, a former unit of 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 23): Property tycoon Tan Sri Lim Soon Peng and Vital Spire Sdn Bhd are among the recipients of the cheques that Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had issued from his bank account that allegedly received money from SRC International Sdn Bhd.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) denied that the letters from Arab royalty which were sent to him in relation to the donations he received were faked, as suggested by adhoc prosecutor Datuk V Sithambaram.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): While Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had decided to remove Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil as chief executive officer of SRC International Sdn Bhd amid complaints of financial misconduct, he remained as the mandate holder of the former prime minister's accounts.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak admitted today that he did not have a plan to retrieve RM3.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak agreed that he had asked former Treasury secretary-general Tan Sri Dr Wan Abdul Aziz Wan Abdullah to expedite the first RM2 billion loan that Retirement Fund Inc (KWAP) granted to SRC International Sdn Bhd in 2011.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): The High Court today allowed former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak to call an Australian expert witness to examine 13 questionable documents.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): High Court Judge Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali is expected to deliver his ruling today on whether to grant former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's request for a handwriting expert to examine 13 purported contemperoneous documents containing his signature.