‘ON THE ORDERS OF NAJIB HIMSELF. HE SIGNED THE CHEQUE IN FRONT OF ME’: RM238K FOR AH JIB GOR FB PAGE & RM240K FOR NOW DEFUNCT NEWS PORTAL – THIS IS HOW NAJIB SPENT MONEY THAT DOESN’T BELONG TO HIM LIKE WATER

RM238k for Ah Jib Gor FB page, Chinese Weekly

4.40pm – Wong Nai Chee, the 17th witness, says that he received an AmIslamic cheque for RM238,914 from Najib on Feb 12, 2015. The cheque was for community leader Lim Soon Peng to pay two other entities.

Wong, who served as Najib’s political secretary from 2011 until May last year, tells DPP Saifuddin that the cheque was used to pay AD Network and Akademi Kewartawanan & Informasi Taima.

“Payment was for administrative fees for the Ah Jib Gor Facebook profile (by AD Network), and for the publication of Chinese Weekly, the name of the publication,” Wong says.

He says that Lim is a trusted man, and that the objective of Chinese Weekly was to inform Chinese readers.

Saifuddin: You say that the payment is for AD Network and Akademi Kewartawanan & Informasi Taima. Have they complained of lack of independence?

Wong: No, they have not.

Najib gave RM240k to news portal M’sian Digest

4.18pm – 16th witness Onn Hafiz Ghazi, who owns shares in online news portal operator Vital Spire Sdn Bhd, confirms receiving an RM240,000 cheque from Najib on Jan 30, 2015, to run online news portal Malaysian Digest.

During examination-in-chief by Saifuddin, Hafiz says that the now-defunct portal covered international and local news regarding politics, entertainment, and sports, among others.

Saifuddin: On whose orders did you set up the portal?

Hafiz: On the orders of Najib. I met him alone at the Prime Minister’s Office at that time. I received the cheque from him. He signed the cheque in front of me.

In 2013, Malaysian Digest denied receiving monthly allocations from the Prime Minister’s Department.

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