NAJIB NOT KLEPTOCRAT BUT ‘ROBIN HOOD’? SHAFEE TRIES TO PAINT NAJIB’S MONEY-LAUNDERING FEATS AS GOOD DEEDS – BUT ‘STOLEN’ MONEY IS NOT HIS FATHER’S TO SIMPLY SPEND: EX-PM GAVE ME RM52K TO PAY FOR MY SONS’ EDUCATION – BUT THE MONEY STOPPED COMING IN 2015, WIDOW TELLS COURT

Najib gave PMO employee’s widow RM52k to support children’s education

4.30pm – Manisah testifies that her family also received two other cheques from Najib in 2013, the year her husband died, and 2014.

Answering a question from defence counsel Shafee, she confirmed that she had received RM9,000 in funds from the then-premier in 2013.

She received another cheque for RM29,520 the next year.

According to Manisah, the cheques were passed to her by her late husband’s colleague Khairul, and were used solely to pay the university fees of her two sons, now aged 27 and 23.

Both are yet to complete their studies, as the younger son is suffering from kidney disease, while his brother is also helping with treatment and intends to donate one of his kidneys.

Manisah testifies that Najib kept his promise to her late husband to take care of their children’s academic fees.

In total, she received RM52,320 from the then-premier.

However, she says, the cheques stopped coming in 2015. She believes it was because Najib did not know that her children had yet to finish their studies, and she had no direct access to him.

PMO employee’s widow received funds from Najib

4.15pm – The twelth prosecution witness Manisah Othman confirms receiving a cheque from Najib for RM13,800 under her name, to support her children’s education.

During examination-in-chief by DPP Saifuddin, she testifies that she received the cheque after Najib visited her husband, who was warded in Prince Court Hospital.

Manisah says her husband had previously worked in Boustead Holdings before being seconded to work for the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

She adds that her husband died in 2013 a month after being hospitalised.

“Datuk Seri (Najib) promised to look after our children’s education,” she says, adding that the cheque was later given to her by a person named Khairul, who was a colleague of her late husband in the PMO.

Last week, Manisah had been named in Ambank employee Badrul Hisam Mohamad’s testimony as a recipient of a cheque issued from an Ambank accounts linked to Najib’s case.

The transaction in question involved an AmIslamic cheque for RM13,800 dated Feb 12, 2015.

MKINI