The criminal trial of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak involving the alleged misappropriation of funds from SRC International Sdn Bhd enters day 75 today at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysiakini brings you live reports of the proceedings.
Former AmBank relationship manager Krystle Yap may be set to testify for the defence on the 75th day of Najib Abdul Razak’s RM42 million SRC International trial today.
Yesterday, the former prime minister’s defence counsel Harvinderjit Singh informed the Kuala Lumpur High Court that the defence is looking at wrapping up re-examination of the accused today, thus paving the way for Yap to testify for the defence.
Since the defence stage of the trial began on Dec 3 last year, Najib had undergone examination-in-chief by the defence team for three days, and was then subject to cross-examination for 11 days.
If the defence wraps up its re-examination of Najib today, then it would mean that Najib had been on the witness stand for 16 days.
Yap is among a list of prosecution witnesses that was offered to the defence after Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali ordered Najib to enter his defence on Nov 11 last year.
During the prosecution stage of trial last year, Yap was referred to in various testimonies, including that of former Bank Negara investigating officer Ahmad Farhan Sharifuddin, who led a raid by a team from the central bank on the Jalan Raja Chulan branch of AmBank in July 2015.
Najib’s re-examination by the defence team is expected to resume before Nazlan around 9am this morning.
Yesterday, Najib among others testified that he was not sure whether the two government guarantees for the RM4 billion in loans from Retirement Fund Inc (KWAP) to SRC International were ever laid before Parliament as required under Section 2(3) of the Loan Guarantee (Bodies Corporate) Act 1965.
[More to follow] - Mkini
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