For AMLA, money trail is practically enough to score head shot on opponent. When I was still in practice, AMLA was the most difficult act to defend against, because the money trail (or lack of one) is practically all that is needed for prosecution to discharge their burden of proof.

This write up from NST describes the threat of AMLA well enough:

https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnists/2...ful-legislation

I take the position Najib and Rosmah are screwed on the AMLA part. It is the big 4 charges where they "might" have a fighting chance. But it is also "quite" clear to me that the circumstantial evidence against them is overwhelming.

Bring on their prince. If there was a genuine prince all along, they wouldn't have hid him for so long, and he would clearly come out and say that he was a donor and why he was a donor. You do not hide your prince until your trial is halfway through and then bring him out to surprise everyone - that is the strongest signal of unreliability and lack of credibility.

Anyway, I have said my piece and my opinion. I trust Sri Ram to do a good job and score several convictions against Najib. This will start the flood of convictions against the rest of the crooks. If you have a different opinion, then agree to disagree and let's just wait for the trial to end and the results to come out.

Najib gave cheque to help the poor Malays in Batu Kawan - Noor

11.20am - The court hears from Batu Kawan Umno division chief Mohd Noor Ahmad that a sum of RM100,000 which the division received from then party president Najib Abdul Razak in 2013 was used to conduct activities to help those in need in the constituency.

The witness, testifying under cross-examination by defence counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (photo), agrees to the lawyer's suggestion that the Malays in Penang were among the less fortunate in the country compared to other states.

He also agrees that the Malays in the northern state were in need of such assistance for their livelihood.

Shafee: One more question. Although I myself am also from Penang... would you agree that the economical state of the Malays in Penang is not very good?

Mohd Noor: Yes, I agree.

Shafee: In Malaysia, one of the states where (the Malays) are still being left behind (economically) is Penang?

Mohd Noor: Agree.

Shafee: And they need assistance to uplift their livelihood?

Mohd Noor: True.

Shafee: And during that time when you received the funds from Najib, the Penang state government was not under Barisan Nasional?

Mohd Noor: Yes.

Shafee: And you received this donation to help the people in Batu Kawan?

Mohd Noor: True.

The witness also testifies that the Umno division's bank account had been frozen by the authorities for about a year over the case.

Judge rejects prosecution's request to adjourn trial to next week

11.30am - After the prosecution's sixth witness Mohd Noor Ahmad is released from the stand, lead prosecutor Gopal Sri Ram makes a request to the court to adjourn today's proceedings.

He informs the court that the prosecution is expecting a lengthy session to conduct examination on the seventh witness, as there are 177 documents to be tendered with the witness.

"If it is convenient to My Lordship, we would like to take it to Tuesday morning," says Sri Ram.

Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah, however, is not keen to adjourn the trial.

He says they have already lost "several days", referring to the trial's postponements in the past few weeks.

"We will start today. We already lost several days.

"I’m sure it will spill to Tuesday," says the judge.

Sequerah then allows for a short break for the prosecution to prepare for the next witness.

i want see najib on stand answering his crime and show the world how greedy bastard this guy are.

Not the whole of Malaysia need assistance meh? only the bumis affected by the economy slowdown ....

apalancau ini????

SSM officer identifies TIA/1MDB registration documents

12.05pm - The prosecution calls its eighth witness, Companies Commission (SSM) officer Rafidah Yahaya to testify in court.

DPP Mustaffa P Kunyalam conducts the examination-in-chief on the witness.

Rafidah starts her testimony by identifying documents that she had surrendered to MACC on May 28, 2018, including business registration certificate for Terengganu Investment Authority Berhad, which was later known as 1Malaysia Development Berhad.

summary pls.. so long the message

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

SSM officer identifies TIA/1MDB registration documents
Judge rejects prosecution's request to adjourn trial to next week
Najib gave cheque to help the poor Malays in Batu Kawan - Noor
I received RM100k party contribution from Najib: Batu Kawan Umno chief
Batu Kawan Umno division chief takes the stand
Najib didn’t issue cheques directly to prevent circulation on FB - witness

I've been in practice long enough and in enough criminal / fraud cases to know how it is dealt and the difficulties and issues with handling such cases.

If you are casting doubts on my outlook, you are entitled to your opinion. I think your opinion is wrong, you are welcome to think my opinion is wrong, and we will just wait for the trial to reach its conclusion. That's that.

Sure Jibby can refuse to be cross-examined by the prosecutor. Does it help his case? Does it make him a reliable witness? A credible one? If you have practiced litigation, then you will know that witness credibility is incredibly important; the witness can spin the most golden and well-crafted story on the stand, but if he has no credibility, then his entire story can even be discounted 100%.

You should read some judgements where the judges called witnesses liars and ignored their entire testimony.

If Jib does that, aka refuses to take the stand or does not cooperate with cross-examination, even more so he is helping the prosecution with their case, LOL!

Same with your Arab prince theory also. Everything Najib's team has done so far with regards to the Arab prince has not been helping their case. Any Arab prince they produce would have his credibility discounted so low immediately at the witness stand, that it would actually be a total waste of time, even a detriment, to produce the prince. A top-level cross-examiner would have a field day ripping the prince apart.

As I said, if you have a very different outlook on the case, by all means proceed with your outlook. For some of the most complex cases, you ask 5 different lawyers on their outlook, they will give you 5 different outlooks, from blinding optimism to dire pessimism. The same will be for this case of Najib's; on my part, I am hopeful optimistic because of the quality of the prosecution. Sri Ram also said that he would produce BOTH DIRECT AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL evidence to support the prosecution's case. I cannot think of anyone better to lead the prosecution team.

Hence, I am confident that Najib will be nailed on a big portion of the charges.

This post has been edited by TheBornLoser: Aug 29 2019, 01:09 PM

dont make sorry excuse for najib ok this guy is a clown with stupid story of prince arab

hah, donut straight to umngok kononnya nak tolong rakyat

why not give to dap, pkr, they all mau tolong rakyat juga

There is nothing mutually exclusive about me saying that Jibby will be bombed during cross-examination. The fireworks we all want to watch are Jibby taking the stand and getting skewered for all the rubbish he has said in the past on 1MDB, but if he refuses to take the stand, all the more so it helps the prosecution as well. So now this makes me question.... were you ever a lawyer in the first place? LOL!!!

Well, you may be right that if I become a judge, I MAY be a disaster to the judiciary. I think what I can fast fast make judgement is that I would DEFINITELY make a far better judge than you. Maybe I am bias and not being professional to the core (I am no longer a lawyer BTW... for over a decade already), but my technical and legal skills would probably exceed yours by a mile. So maybe I would be a T1 disaster on the bench while you would be a T5 disaster.... still a disaster, but a much smaller one compared to what you would have been

OK lar, enough talking cock with you. Am moving on from this.

Ya, I would not be a good judge. If I ever became a judge, I would become a "hanging judge", which is not good for society as a whole. So better for me to have moved into other areas.

I didn't know that a 38 year old me could be labeled as "uncle". That probably means you are a young ciku, and I didn't realize I was talking to someone who hasn't grown much pubic hair yet. Forgive me, I was talking to you as if you were a rational, reasonable adult of mature thinking abilities. I assumed too much of you

Anyway, since you are young, naive, probably a little stupid and silly, I forgive you for your inability to think too much or analyze matters carefully. Thus, feel free to keep commenting here OK... you might learn a thing or two that will help you with your life in the future

You see every words he types here is intended to provoke and troll for arguments. My guess is he has no job no money for entertainment and nothing better to do while waiting for his court case, so troll /k for entertainment

Yeah yeah yeah, please pick more soap when you're in jail

You dunno who lamtin is? Try google lam chang nam

Must be great to have professional penipu scammer friend, senang senang dapat around USD4mil++ just to funnel money through your account. See item 11. Prince turki or that prince Faisal dpt middleman fees gak kut. Allegedly Jhlo transfer 12 mil to them then they transfer only 10 mil to PMO1. Yeehaaa! Kaya woh, goyang telur tekan button send jer. Oh wai!

What excuse this time around do you think? Dog ate his case file. Indon maid want to go horriday. Cirit birit until cannot walk.. Oh wai!