1mdb Najib Files Additional 130 Page Witness Statement

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1MDB TRIAL | Najib Abdul Razak's legal team has filed an additional 130-page witness statement on his behalf.
The former prime minister had just wrapped up reading a 528-page witness statement to the court this afternoon to rebut the RM2.27 billion 1MDB abuse of power and money laundering trial against him.
The former finance minister's defence counsel Wan Azwan Aiman Wan Fakhruddin told judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah that the additional witness statement was filed around 2.45pm.
Najib will read from the additional witness statement tomorrow and continue doing so during the trial in January.
Initially, the witness statement Najib had read aloud in court since Dec 2 was 525 pages.
However, three more pages were added due to amendments and updated filings.
Prima facie case
On Oct 30, the criminal court ordered Najib to enter his defence over four abuse of power and 21 money laundering charges involving RM2.27 billion of funds from 1MDB.
Trial judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah ruled that the prosecution succeeded in establishing a prima facie (answerable) case against Najib over the Minister of Finance Incorporated’s (MOF Inc) wholly owned company.
The judge ruled that Najib had to answer the charges due to the strength of the various 50 witness testimonies during the prosecution stage of proceedings that lasted six years since the trial began in 2019. The accused was first charged in 2018.
Najib is serving a six-year jail sentence over a separate abuse of power case involving RM42 million of funds from SRC International, a former subsidiary of 1MDB.
Deputy public prosecutor Kamal Baharin Omar prosecuted. - Mkini

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