Oct 30 2024, 04:11 PM, updated 2 months ago
judge said, after the scandal broke, if Najib really was scammed and he was totally unaware about being cheated by the people around him, how come he did not lodge any police report?
najib troopers please prepare script
inb4 najib didn't know how to make police report
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Najib did not lodge any report against Jho Low after scandal broke, says judge
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Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah says Najib Razak also never raised any inquiries about the funds that entered his AmBank account.
KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Najib Razak did not lodge any report against businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, over the financier’s alleged role after the 1MDB scandal broke out about a decade ago, the High Court ruled today.
Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah said evidence given by the investigating officer into the 1MDB case, Nur Aida Ariffin, indicated that the authorities never received any complaints from Najib or his officers in 2015.
“Amhari (Efendi Nazaruddin) said he did not receive instructions from the accused to do so,” he said, referring to Najib’s former special officer, who testified in the 1MDB trial.
Sequerah said this in ordering Najib to defend himself on four charges of abuse of power and 21 charges of money laundering involving RM2.28 billion in 1MDB funds.
The judge noted that after 1MDB was widely publicised in 2015, its former chairman, Bakke Salleh, and former CEO, Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi, were called to testify before the Public Accounts Committee.
“Bakke said that before he was scheduled to testify, (then) PAC chairman Hassan Ariffin briefed him twice on what to say to safeguard and minimise the roles of the accused and Low (in 1MDB),” he said, adding that Shahrol was also instructed to do the same.
Sequerah cited another incident in 2013 when auditors from KPMG questioned 1MDB’s US$2.3 billion investment in Brazen Sky Ltd.
The auditors had refused to sign off on 1MDB’s 2013 financial statement because they could not verify the authenticity of the investment.
“After the matter was brought to the accused’s attention, a meeting was held at his home to strategise another meeting with KPMG (to be held later),” he said, adding that former 1MDB CEO Hazem Abdul Rahman testified that Low called for the meeting.
Another meeting with KPMG took place later at Najib’s house in Langgak Duta, attended by the audit firm’s senior partner, Johan Idris, among others.
Sequerah said Johan testified that he felt “intimidated” with Najib’s instruction for them to close the financial statement during the meeting.
“As a result, KPMG was terminated by the accused and Deloitte replaced them,” he said.
On Najib’s contention that he received “Arab donations”, Sequerah cited former 1MDB general counsel Loo Ai Swan’s testimony that she overheard Low instructing Kee Kok Thiam to draft the “donation letters” when they were in a London hotel.
Kee, a former aide to Low, died in May 2023. Police said the businessman died of health-related problems.
Sequerah noted that between 2011 and 2015, Najib held accounts under Ambank.
He said Ambank bankers testified that Najib never raised any inquiries about the funds that entered his account throughout the four years.
“This raised reasonable inference that the letters were suspicious,” he said.
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