You Want The Truth Prosecution Cites A Few Good Men To Dismiss Najib S Saudi Donation Claim In 1mdb Trial

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Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is seen at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex on July 7, 2025. — Picture by Sayuti ZainudinPUTRAJAYA, Oct 29 — The prosecution today rubbished former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s claim that he had received over RM2 billion as a donation from Saudi Arabia, and also said he has failed to prove that the four purported Arab donation letters are genuine.
Deputy public prosecutor Deepa Nair Thevaharan today said the key question was whether these four purported “donation letters” which Najib has been clinging to as his “lifeline” in the 1MDB trial were genuine or authentic, and whether the original copy of the letters had been shown to the court.
She then quoted the film A Few Good Men: “You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth.”
“Because to date, the defence has offered none, no proof, no original letters, no authenticity, just stories,” she said during Najib’s 1MDB trial at the High Court.
Only photocopied versions of the four letters — which Najib and his lawyers say was written by a Saudi royal to promise gifts of money to him — have been shown to this court. 
Najib previously claimed he could not access the original copies stored at his office at the Prime Minister’s Department after losing the 14th general election in 2018.
In the 1MDB trial, the prosecution says that evidence shows over US$681 million or over RM2 billion of 1MDB’s money entered Najib’s personal bank account, but Najib has insisted that he believed those money were a personal donation to him from Saudi Arabia.
Earlier today, deputy public prosecutor Datuk Ahmad Akram Gharib argued that Najib was merely making a “bare denial” about the RM2 billion in his accounts, which the prosecution has been saying is 1MDB’s money instead of Saudi donations.
Akram said Najib’s claim that he believed he was receiving donations and reliance on four purported Arab donation letters was a “bare assertion”, saying that the latter did not produce “any donor, authentic documentation or corroborating witness” in court.
Akram said Najib’s “story” about Saudi donations had previously been found by the courts in a separate criminal trial involving SRC International Sdn Bhd’s RM42 million to be “unbelievable”, “fabrication”, and a “tale that surpassed even those from the Arabian Nights”.
Najib’s 1MDB trial before trial judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah resumes tomorrow.
In this trial, Najib is facing 21 money laundering charges, namely nine charges for receiving US$681 million (RM2.081 billion) — which the prosecution says belongs to 1MDB and are not Saudi donations — in his bank account; five charges for his sending out of the US$620 million (RM2.034 billion); five charges for issuing cheques totalling RM22.649 million; and two charges for transferring money to his other bank accounts.

- malaymail

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