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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.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 21): Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak testified in court today that although there were no solid developments following SRC International Sdn Bhd's first Retirement Fund Inc (KWAP) RM2 billion loan, he had agreed to a government guarantee for second RM2 billion loan to the company.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 21): Datuk Seri Abdul Najib Razak said he did not consult Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah when he approved the transfer of ownership of SRC International Sdn Bhd to Minister of Finance Inc (MoF Inc) in 2012, as the decision did not have any financial implication to the government.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 21): While the property overhang in Malaysia has been on an upward trend, it is not an "economic calamity", according to property consultancy Rahim & Co International Sdn Bhd as it expects the number to be reduced over the next few years.